From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: "Paul W. Rankin" via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Paul W. Rankin" <pwr@skeletons.cc>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:10:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR06MB6577AA236FC22CBBAE0BA76C96F20@AM0PR06MB6577.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <246e72aa3c49450ac7d382f599cd86f5@skeletons.cc> (Paul W. Rankin's message of "Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:30:25 +1000")
"Paul W. Rankin" via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Eli,
>
> Sorry for the delayed response.
>
> Upon consulting Wikipedia, it seems that in the US the term "Humanities" has a
> narrower definition, i.e. as distinct from the arts and social sciences. For
> emacs-deval readers in the US, emacs-humanities would cover the Liberal Arts.
>
> So, a more precise description:
>
> This list is for general discussion on using GNU Emacs in the Humanities and
> Emacs-related topics that are interesting to those who study or otherwise
> participate in the Humanities (also called Liberal Arts in
> N. America). Discussion here welcomes contributions from any GNU Emacs user (or
> potential user) involved in the disciplines of: anthropology, archaeology,
> classics, history, linguistics and languages, law and politics, literature,
> philosophy, religion, or the performing or visual arts.
So are you making a list that will discuss anthropology or Emacs? Are
mathematics students who would like to discuss Emacs banned from the
list because mathematics are not humanities?
Sorry, I am a bit carricaturing here, but as a layman I don't get the purpose
from your description :-). Just trying to give you input from aside.
> Participants are assumed not to have programming knowledge and respected as
> such. Support that requires any writing of code should be directed to
> help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
>
>
> How's that? I'm ambivalent about listing all the separate disciplines... But I
> don't think this description needs to be set in stone; I imagine it will evolve
> as the list gains traction (or not).
I don't think you should have any hard-set category.
I suggest just the Emacs-for-non-programmers list or something similar;
if you think another channel is needed (I have no opinion about that one).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-29 6:57 Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 1:24 ` Karl Fogel
2020-11-30 3:16 ` Bob Newell
2020-12-01 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-01 10:59 ` 황병희
2020-11-30 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 3:55 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 4:40 ` Karl Fogel
2020-11-30 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 6:03 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-02 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-03 8:30 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-03 9:15 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-12-03 10:35 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-12 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-14 22:28 ` Karl Fogel
2020-12-03 9:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-03 10:34 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-03 10:16 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-04 5:55 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-03 20:10 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2020-12-03 20:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-03 21:07 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-03 23:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-03 23:41 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-30 13:39 ` Leo Vivier
2020-11-30 17:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-11-30 21:27 ` Karl Fogel
2020-11-30 23:17 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-30 23:29 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 23:31 ` Karl Fogel
2020-12-01 8:57 ` tomas
2020-12-01 11:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 16:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-01 20:55 ` tomas
2020-12-01 17:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-12-02 4:29 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-02 6:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-12-01 9:17 ` tomas
2020-12-01 11:40 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 9:36 ` Michael Albinus
2020-11-30 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 16:19 ` Corwin Brust
2020-11-30 19:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 3:53 ` Zhu Zihao
2020-11-30 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2020-11-30 9:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-30 12:03 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 13:29 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-11-30 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 14:36 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 16:13 ` Corwin Brust
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