From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rixed@happyleptic.org Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile user base Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:42:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20111128094231.GA20529@ccellier.rd.securactive.lan> References: <20111123233913.GA7011@shuttle.happyleptic.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322473384 14565 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2011 09:43:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: anton.vidovic@gmx.de To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 28 10:42:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RUxjk-0005xI-U6 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:42:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUxjk-0000JY-9S for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:42:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUxjc-0000JD-7g for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:42:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUxjY-0001uh-5q for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:42:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eneide.happyleptic.org ([213.251.171.101]:33021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUxjY-0001tZ-1S for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:42:44 -0500 Original-Received: from extranet.securactive.org ([82.234.213.170] helo=ccellier.rd.securactive.lan) by eneide.happyleptic.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RUxr8-00033s-8T; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:50:34 +0100 Original-Received: from rixed by ccellier.rd.securactive.lan with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RUxjL-0001om-Qr; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:42:31 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: rixed@happyleptic.org, guile-user@gnu.org, anton.vidovic@gmx.de Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111123233913.GA7011@shuttle.happyleptic.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 213.251.171.101 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:9007 Archived-At: Thank you all for your responses. The target audience of the newsletter I was contemplating being free software hackers rather than inexperienced programmers, I don't think a wiki, a stackoverflow-style website nor a web forum would suit ; In essence because the information that would be provided would be obsolete quite quickly. There are certainly many cool things that could be done to attract newcomers - first and foremost, update the web site as mentioned - but that's not my intent for many reasons (mostly, I think guile is more useful as a free software extension tool than as a general programming learning tool, but this is of topic). What _I_ feel the need of, being part of the herd of free software programmers inexperienced with scheme, is a succinct and up to date source of news related to the project, so that I can: - see how well or how bad things are going - what's coming - what's requiring help - what other projects use guile and how - how to make the most of this or that uber-feature - ideas of new things to try - examples of common problems and solutions - explanations on how things work from the inside - etc... In short, anything to keep me up to date, give my ideas and knowledge. I believe this can be useful to people already using guile as well as attract the attention of potential new users. A monthly newsletter of the size of the Chicken Gazette looks appropriate to me. As for the free time I'm willing to spend on this, well, I'm offering to compile a first edition only in the hope that other people would volunteer for the next, as : - I'm not knowledgeable in Guile not Scheme - I have not many time per week for anything that's not coding (pity my children) - I'm not comfortable with English - Scheme comes only third in my list of favorite programming languages (C and OCaml being the firsts, for those interested) Anyway, I'm going to try to compile some first newsletter with abstracts from the guile MLs and IRC channel. I may also bug some people personally for some more infos. Then I will host the thing, buz about it a little and see what I catch in my net :-) Enough talking, we will see then.