Re: Community Forum: Discourse?

Just my two bits, but I think 'forum.common-lisp.net' is fine.

-- Scott

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 10:27 PM Mark Evenson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Chris,
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> My name is Mark Evenson, and I serve as secretary of the Common Lisp
> Foundation, which is a non-profit (“Stichtung” in Dutch) based in the
> Netherlands.  We very much indeed would to host and support a Discourse
> instance for Common Lisp that would serve as a long-term, archived record
> of discussions and hopefully provide a place to perform some “lightweight"
> standardization of various topics.
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> I’d like to invite you to attend the next monthly CLF meeting which will
> occur this Wednesday, June 15th online at 2000 UTC. If you are able to
> attend, please send me private email for a more formal invitation.
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> Given our mission to not only create content around CL but also ensure
> that it is accessible for decades to come, we would like to have a Common
> Lisp Discourse under a DNS name that we have administrative “control" over
> but we are undecided as to what would be best
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>   forum.common-lisp.net
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> is pretty descriptive but perhaps too long.
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> Whereas if we went with
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>   forum.lisp.org
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> we would have to “share” the space with Scheme, Clojure, and whatever
> CONS-de-jure is popular.  Not a huge problem, but it would take ongoing
> explanation that “Lisp means Common Lisp”, which while perhaps true for a
> majority of CL users, is certainly not the sole defensible position.
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> In any event, the CLF would love to give ya a host, a mandate, and some
> coordination to set up a Discourse instance.  There are several other CL
> users who would like to contribute and/or use such a Discourse instance
> that would be good to canvas for additional requirements/goals, but
> initially a Discourse instance, hooked up to some Oauth2 providers, and
> with tested daily automatic backups would be a great first step.
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> If a meeting on Wednesday is inconvenient to get going, then please let’s
> continue this discussion in some other way.
>
> Yours,
> Mark Evenson
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