From: "Arthur A. Gleckler" <xxxxxx@speechcode.com>
Date: Saturday, October 05, 2019 2:14 PM

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 5:41 AM <xxxxxx@ancell-ent.com> wrote:
Would it make any sense to create a Schemecomm(unications) mailing list at the same level as Scheme{doc,web,persist}?  Would it have enough to discuss??

I'll leave that up to you all to decide.  I can create such a list if there's demand.

What general things might we want that fall under this but not Schemeweb?

Looking as AWS offerings (https://aws.amazon.com/products/?nc2=h_ql_prod), relevant ones, fluff words cut or replaced:

AWS Step Functions - [ workflow engine ]

Amazon MQ - Message Broker for ActiveMQ

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Pub/Sub, Mobile Push and SMS

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) - Managed Message Queues

Amazon AppSync - [ uses GraphQL ]

Amazon Chime - Meetings, Video Calls, and Chat

Amazon WorkMail - Email and Calendaring

Amazon Connect - Cloud-based Contact Center (that's communications of a different sort).

Amazon Pinpoint - Personalized User Engagement Across Channels (ditto).

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) - Email Sending and Receiving

AWS CodeDeploy - Automate Code Deployment

AWS CodePipeline - Release Software using Continuous Delivery

Amazon GameLift - Game Server Hosting (think the whole class of GUI applications without using a browser).

AWS Elemental MediaConnect - live video transport

Amazon CloudWatch - Monitor Resources and Applications

AWS DataSync - online data transfer

Amazon API Gateway - Build, Deploy, and Manage APIs

I'd add:

Telecom applications of all types, such as integration to Twilo and the like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilio

And please forgive me for letting the word "blockchain" pass my lips....

As well as the Internet of XxxxThings.  If you've got a TCP/IP stack, you may have room to run a Scheme.

Radio in general, ham or unlicensed bands.

The last one is on my TODO list.  Although that's been true since the 1970s ^_^.

Or how about a catch all pre-SRFI list, since srfi-discuss is officially a "mailing list for general discussion of the SRFI process", but is the least worst place for pre-SRFI discussions? 

Would other people like this one, too?  If so, what would it be called?

I think clarity is called for here, I suggest "pre-srfi".

One general feature of what I'm now calling the Scheme Topics mailing lists, i.e. Schemedoc, Schemepersist, and Schemeweb, so far, is that messages to them are not delivered to the Srfi-auto-subscribe list, which gets everything on Srfi-announce + Srfi-discuss + Srfi-<n>.  That way, higher-volume discussions can happen without overwhelming those who want to keep up on just the active SRFI process.  So if there is a topic of discussion that is not SRFI-specific but is likely to be high-volume, I'd be happy to create a list for it.

One other than occurred to me while looking at the AWS product list is Schemesec(urity).  As I understand it, the ambitions of R7RS-large require some non-trivial attention to security.

- Harold