Would the team like to develop a community?

[joelmccracken]

Hello! Sorry I've been MIA for a while. I tend to be a bit intensely interested in things at times, and for a while my focus was elsewhere (from CH/DP/HD, what is the name we even are using nowadays?) RIght now though, I've been swinging back around to this topic, and working on a little POC haskell "job engine". So far its been great.

I know though that I've wanted to ask informal questions from the community for a while from time to time. Would you all like to chat somewhere? maybe a #haskell-distributed on libera, a channel on discord, or somewhere else. I did make a thread at #462 some time ago, but it doesn't seem like the github built in discussion system has much traction.

Thanks!

[LaurentRDC]

That's a good question.

Personally, I can't handle another messaging system outside of the ones I already use (slack, email, Github, Haskell Discourse). As you saw, I can't even keep track of Github Discussions.

Beyond my limitations, I would say that Discord is pretty popular. Maybe that's the play?

What do others think?

[joelmccracken]

there is already a cloud-haskell channel in the haskell foundation slack, so if you want to use slack, that's a decent spot. I haven't seen any activity there in ages tho

I generally find discord the most annoying of all the options, it just has so much "noise" that I filter through, and it seems like the settings change frequently enough that I end up getting inundated with different alerts, but hey, one goes where the community is.

The haskell discourse would be OK as well I think, perhaps it has some kind of tagging/categories system?

The main question I have I guess is just: can we make a rough agreement? I think it can be revisited whenver. Its not like (?CH? is there a better "umbrella" name for this project now?) has a huge community right now.

I would suggest that we close github discussions also, assumign we pick something else. I think I was likely the one who turned it on in the first place.

[tmcgilchrist]

I'm using distributed-process for some things and will contribute back where I can.

I've also reached peak messaging system and can't take on anything new. Usually I keep an eye on email, GitHub issues, Haskell Foundation Slack and discourse.haskell.org, sometimes I'm on discord. One of those channels would be better, I didn't even know about GitHub Discussions.

[LaurentRDC]

I would be happy with the Haskell Foundation slack. Seems to be in the intersection of our platforms