Re: GNU Guile community in google+

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

I'm catching up with mail and thought you might be interested in my
thoughts.  They're just my thoughts, the thoughts of one Guile hacker,
and I don't represent Guile with them -- so please do make up your own
minds.

I basically agree with Ludo and Mark that proprietary, centralized
social networks are bad for society, and are dangerous because they are
attractive.

I agree with Zx that there are many ways that Guile could be better as a
community -- especially among new and younger Guilers, many of whom have
"come of age" in an internet sense on social networks.

I think that Guile probably could engage with users who are already on
proprietary social networks, in a kind of announcement-oriented way, but
I agree that we as a project shouldn't try to build a community there.
Perhaps we could have someone manage "official" accounts for Guile on
these services and link them up to re-post things from our news feed.

If there are community needs that are not being met right now, we should
try to identify them and find solutions.  Is a blog aggregator the
thing, or is it something else?  I liked the idea of a Guile subreddit,
though I don't know if it could get enough interest.

Is there something that we need to build into gnu.org somehow?

Whatever we do, I think we should try to point people to the "primary"
vehicles of discussion: the mailing lists and the IRC channel.

Again, these are just opinions of one guy, take them as you will :)

Cheers,

Andy
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