I feel good that this mailing list is up and running, but I also wanted to mention that I had considered initiating a
discourse.org forum. I haven't previously looked into it comprehensively and didn't want to wait to sort out the issues and details prior to getting this mailing list up and running.
So this is merely a note to say: a) alternate discussion forum (e.g. discourse) would still be an option and b) better to have this now rather than wait.
If any of you have a strong opinion about this, or have experience implementing a
discourse.org forum, we could discuss that as well.
-Ethan