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Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:16:02 +0100 |
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On Thu, Dec 03 2020, Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions. wrote:
> So, a more precise description:
>
> This list is for general discussion on using GNU Emacs in the Humanities
> and Emacs-related topics that are interesting to those who study or
> otherwise participate in the Humanities (also called Liberal Arts in N.
> America). Discussion here welcomes contributions from any GNU Emacs user
> (or potential user) involved in the disciplines of: anthropology,
> archaeology, classics, history, linguistics and languages, law and
> politics, literature, philosophy, religion, or the performing or visual
> arts.
Personally, I wouldn't formulate it as if the list of disciplines is fixed.
Perhaps something like the following would be better:
"Discussion here welcomes contributions from any GNU Emacs user
(or potential user) involved in disciplines such as anthropology, [...]"
And perhaps even add an "etc." at the end of the list.
> Participants are assumed not to have programming knowledge and respected
> as such.
This formulation might be understood to exclude participants that *do* have
programming knowledge, I think. (At least, that's how I read it...) I assume
that's not your intention, so I'd at least move the "not" forward (which also
requires "are" to be inserted before "respected"):
"Participants are not assumed to have programming knowledge and are respected as
such."
(Honestly, I'm not a fan of the phrase "and are respected as such". It sounds as
if not having programming knowledge is somehow a defect...)
> Support that requires any writing of code should be directed to
> help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
This, too, sounds too restrictive IMHO. Adding a few lines to one's init file
can also be considered "writing code"...
My proposal for the second paragraph:
Participants are not assumed to have programming knowledge. Questions and
discussions regarding programming Emacs should generally be directed at
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
Just my €0.02, of course.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, (continued)
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, 황병희, 2020/12/01
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Jean Louis, 2020/12/01
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/02
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Jean Louis, 2020/12/03
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Paul W. Rankin, 2020/12/03
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list,
Joost Kremers <=
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/04
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Arthur Miller, 2020/12/03
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/03
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Arthur Miller, 2020/12/03
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/03
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Arthur Miller, 2020/12/03