Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-12-19 Thread Toby Crawley
I've been discussing with Tom Marble the feasibility of putting Clojars under the umbrella of the Software Freedom Conservancy, since it has an OSS codebase (which is a requirement for the SFC, and something that is lacking from the CCO proposal, since moving Clojure itself under the SFC isn't an o

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-12-11 Thread Devin Walters
This initiative seems overdue by a couple years. I would like to offer some non-trivial portion of my time. Is there anywhere people could donate to ensure this becomes a valuable and positive community reality? On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:38 PM Alex Miller wrote: > I don't think we have any offic

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-12-10 Thread Alex Miller
I don't think we have any official position on it, but I can respond to various items that have been mentioned above in the thread: 1) Google Summer of Code - we (Cognitect) are again acting as a receiver of stipends and distributor of travel funds this year but would happily let another org do

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-12-10 Thread Daniel Compton
Hi Alex Following up on this, is there anything else you can share? Thanks, Daniel. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:01 AM Alex Miller wrote: > Thanks for the ping - I don't think I ever heard anything back but I will > ping again. > > Alex > > > On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 3:26:57 PM UTC-5, Daniel C

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-06-22 Thread Alex Miller
Thanks for the ping - I don't think I ever heard anything back but I will ping again. Alex On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 3:26:57 PM UTC-5, Daniel Compton wrote: > > Hi Alex > > Has Cognitect had any further discussion on this/do you have anything to > share? > > Thanks, Daniel. > > On Monday, May

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-06-22 Thread Daniel Compton
Hi Alex Has Cognitect had any further discussion on this/do you have anything to share? Thanks, Daniel. On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 3:04:17 PM UTC+12, Alex Miller wrote: > > Re gsoc, last year Cognitect was a receiving organization for the funds > and distributed them to students for travel to C

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-05-03 Thread Mikera
ul! On Wednesday, 29 April 2015 06:02:50 UTC+8, Daniel Solano Gómez 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 thin

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-05-03 Thread Alex Miller
Re gsoc, last year Cognitect was a receiving organization for the funds and distributed them to students for travel to Clojure conferences. This incurs some cost on Cognitect for the accounting effort but overall seemed worth it. We also offer free tickets to all gsoc students for any Clojure co

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-05-03 Thread myriam abramson
tement from Rich on > his feelings and desired relationship with the proposed community > organization. Even before that I wonder if Rich has any thoughts on > all this??? > > In any case I thank you for thinking of the community and > I'm confident we'll figure out how to ad

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-05-03 Thread Tom Marble
f you've made it to end of this long rant I want to thank @richhickey (and all the contributors) for Clojure: every time I have to jump back to Common Lisp I thank Rich for making elegant, opinionated decisions that make coding a joy! Regards, --Tom [0] http://sfconservancy.org/members/

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-05-02 Thread Albin Stjerna
to promote. > > I appreciate any ideas on how to an org can help ake this happen. > > Sincerely, > > Daniel > > > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Daniel Solano Gómez < > cloj...@sattvik.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, all, > >

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-04-30 Thread Daniel Solano Gómez
That's definitely something we need to figure out how to promote. I appreciate any ideas on how to an org can help ake this happen. Sincerely, Daniel > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Daniel Solano Gómez > wrote: > > > Hello, all, > > > > I've brought

Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-04-29 Thread Hildeberto Mendonça
> 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 decid

Clojure community organisation

2015-04-28 Thread Daniel Solano Gómez
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 decid