Matthias, I disagree with this. First, we all believe that the Racket community is one of the most important parts of Racket. Given that, how to make it the community we want it to be, and how to welcome as many new people to our community as possible, are fundamental to what we discuss on this list. You, and many others in the Racket community, have done great work making computing accessible to new people and people who are underrepresented, and I hope we can do more of that for the Racket community itself, along both of the axes that Chris mentioned.
Second, while I agree that this list is not an appropriate place for general political discussion, the things we do here cannot be entirely separated from things we might call politics. For example, making it possible for more people to create software and to understand the systems around them is political, just as making a welcoming community is political. We can't entirely avoid politics, even if we wanted to, and instead we have to do the right things together for our communities. Sam On Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 12:19 PM Matthias Felleisen <matth...@felleisen.org> wrote: > > > > On Jul 14, 2019, at 1:44 PM, someone wrote: > > > > - I am indeed very for growth in the community, though my main interest > > in growth is in seeing a wider diversity of participants than just > > raw numbers. Obviously other peoples' mileage may vary. > > > This is politics and politics has no business whatsoever on this mailing > list. I believe there are things such as Facebook, Instagram and other > Web-chambers where political opinions are welcome and echoes will always > confirm your opinions. > > ;; - - - > > Our policy has always been that everyone, absolutely everyone, is welcome > on this technical list to discuss technical issues. We don’t exclude > anyone. And everyone gets treated the same and gets productive responses if > possible. In particular, politics stays off this list; it’s divisive enough > in the rest of the world. > > Thank you — Matthias > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/B7391FF7-FDE7-42A5-921D-BA9B78B463C9%40felleisen.org > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 12:19 PM Matthias Felleisen <matth...@felleisen.org> wrote: > > > > On Jul 14, 2019, at 1:44 PM, someone wrote: > > > > - I am indeed very for growth in the community, though my main interest > > in growth is in seeing a wider diversity of participants than just > > raw numbers. Obviously other peoples' mileage may vary. > > > This is politics and politics has no business whatsoever on this mailing > list. I believe there are things such as Facebook, Instagram and other > Web-chambers where political opinions are welcome and echoes will always > confirm your opinions. > > ;; - - - > > Our policy has always been that everyone, absolutely everyone, is welcome > on this technical list to discuss technical issues. We don’t exclude > anyone. And everyone gets treated the same and gets productive responses if > possible. In particular, politics stays off this list; it’s divisive enough > in the rest of the world. > > Thank you — Matthias > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/B7391FF7-FDE7-42A5-921D-BA9B78B463C9%40felleisen.org > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAK%3DHD%2Bb67tTV8a5Dmj5r5uZs2-BfgP7fvj3-aHZXSNCekBt_SA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
