This is a awesome idea! In my opinion, this organization would attract the maximum number of people if its mission is centred on Knowledge Management:
1. Wiki-based Clojure documentation, such as clojuredocs.org, containing the "official" documentation, but constantly improved by the community with more examples and rephrasing complex sentences, etc; 2. Wiki-based libraries documentation, related to Clojars and following the same model of the previous documentation; 3. Agregation of content produced by bloggers and websites out there, everything indexed by tags linked to Clojure versions and libraries in clojars for cross-navigation; 4. Agregation of videos and slides produced by conference speakers, instructors. 5. Everything gamefied so people can win points for their contributions and increase their reputation like in stackoverflow.com. I would love to join as a member to have discounts in books, conferences, courses, tshirts, etc. I absolutely rate professional certifications, but I'm in favour of certified courses, so we can be sure the instructors are capable of teaching Clojure properly, with idiomatic code. What about promoting Clojure as a first language in universities? We would need to help teachers to create equivalent syllabus to the ones they are already using to teach Python, for example. So, this is my brainstorming. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Daniel Solano Gómez <cloj...@sattvik.com> wrote: > Hello, all, > > I've brought up the idea of some sort of Clojure community organisation > a few times on this mailing list. The ideas is to help grow the Clojure > community by doing things like supporting GSoC students, run > infrastructure like Clojars, help run conferences, etc. I have decided > to start moving forward and apply for fiscal sponsorship from the > Software Freedom Conservancy and Software in the Public Interest. Those > things take time to work themselves out. In the meantime, I appreciate > any input/feedback about what this org should do or what it should look > like. As such, I have posted a page on the community wiki to start > braainstorming and discussing ideas > <http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Clojure+Community+Organisation>. > > A big thank you to everyone. Participating in this community has been a > very positive experience for me, and I would love to see it to continue > to flourish. I appreciate any help or advice on how to make this > initiative succeed in supporting the community. > > Sincerely, > > Daniel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Hildeberto Mendonça, Ph.D Blog: http://www.hildeberto.com Community: http://www.cejug.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/htmfilho -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
