Re: [Texmacs-dev] a comment from news.ycombinator.com

[Giovanni Piredda]

On 20.04.20 15:48, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> from a discussion I started here:
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22887226
>
> this is the comment:
>
> "Now I've got you - The biggest issue I have with texmacs is how difficult it 
> is to interact with the community.


From the point of view of a user: the suggestions of Darcy in the 
message "Three specific suggestions for the TeXmacs community" point to 
the right direction on how to make it possible to interact with other 
users. Separating clearly between the developers' work and user 
contributions could make it easier for users to contribute and this 
would benefit TeXmacs and in turn all of the users. I feel that thanks 
to the Guile interface users would be able to write wonderful software 
for TeXmacs, and making it easy for them to make their contributions 
available to other users could stimulate people to write their own 
extensions to TeXmacs. One initial possibility is perhaps through a 
TeXmacs wiki site, where users could have personal pages and maybe there 
could be pages which collect extensions (with minimal 
supervision/moderation). See this for example: 
http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinExtensions; one could think of more complex 
arrangements afterwards in case the success is big.

For what regards the mailing list and forum: the forum has been lively 
in the last weeks; I feel it could be a precious resource for TeXmacs; 
perhaps JvdH can consider linking to it from the official webpage of 
TeXmacs.