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Define the added value compared to http://elixir-lang.org/ #13

Open vptheron opened 9 years ago

vptheron commented 9 years ago

I love the idea of an elixir.community website, but what would be the added value compared to the already official elixir-lang.com?

There is a lot of duplication, like the list of materials, of IRC/Slack/... channels, etc.

barisbalic commented 9 years ago

The core intention was to put lots of useful stuff in one place, but it was an experiment. People have sent PRs for their meetups but that's about all. Since then other things have popped up too making it seem more redundant. Not sure what to do about it, open to any suggestions.

dideler commented 7 years ago

Hey @barisbalic, what is your stance on this now that some time has passed?

The duplication still mostly exists; here's a snippet of elixir-lang's community section:

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The main thing that's missing is a style guide. Though so far christopheradams/elixir_style_guide seems to be the leading community style guide.

The site has been a bit dormant for a while. Is it worth reviving?

barisbalic commented 7 years ago

@dideler thanks for prompting, I don't have any strong feelings about what to do with it, but given that the community gets by fine without it I don't know if 'reviving' it makes sense. I'd happily donate the domain to a good idea. What are your thoughts?

dideler commented 7 years ago

As a very new alchemist, it was a little confusing having multiple community resources. Maybe it would be better to concentrate efforts on a single resource, e.g. the elixir wiki?

That said, I feel there is still no robust Elixir style guide (like Ruby's community style guide or Python's PEP8). I'm not aware of an official style guide, and in its absence, I'm no fan of a "community" style guide under a single user's namespace who then plays the role of dictator. One idea is to have elixir-community focus on the style guide effort so that there is a robust and de facto community style guide. This doesn't really require a separate website though, a repo can be sufficient.

P.S. The domain name is awesome, but I don't have any ideas regarding donating it for a new cause.