[Scheme-reports] announcement of scheme-reports.org

[Jonathan Rees]

The following message was sent last August but I thought it would be  
appropriate to archive it on this list. -Jonathan

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: August 20, 2009 9:44:49 PM EDT (CA)
> To: Scheme PLT <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>, bigloo at lists-sop.inria.fr 
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> Subject: [gambit-list] [ANN] scheme-reports.org
>
> [Apologies if you get duplicates of this message.]
>
> This message is being posted to various lists to inform members of the
> Scheme community on the activities of the Scheme Language Steering
> Committee which is overseeing the process of Scheme language
> evolution.
>
> A website has been setup to publish various documents pertaining to
> our activities.  The steering committee will be presenting and
> discussing these documents at the Scheme workshop on August 22.  Our
> hope is that by publishing them now, a more fruitful question period
> will ensue at the workshop.
>
> The website URL is: http://www.scheme-reports.org/
>
> The documents being published today are:
>
> 1) The amended Scheme Language Steering Committee charter.
>
> 2) The steering committee's position statement on Scheme language
>   evolution.
>
> 3) A draft of the working group meta charter, that describes how
>   working groups are run.
>
> 4) A draft of the charter for working group 1, which will
>   be involved in the elaboration of a specification for
>   a "small" Scheme language.
>
> 5) A draft of the charter for working group 2, which will
>   be involved in the elaboration of a specification for
>   a "large" Scheme language.
>
> If you would like to comment on these documents, we urge you to come
> to the Scheme workshop and/or to send email to the steering committee
> at this address: sc at scheme-reports.org .
>
> Will Clinger
> Marc Feeley
> Chris Hanson
> Jonathan Rees
> Olin Shivers