In addition to the mailing lists below, we also have a club Discord. Anybody in the club is welcome to join – please email squares@mit.edu for the invite link if you don't have it.
Current mailing lists
| Name | moira or mailman? | Who can be on it | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| tech-squares | mailman | all club members and anyone who dances with us a lot | This is the huge list of the entire club, used only for the weekly announcements and other important low-volume things. It is moderated. |
| tech-squares-rounds | mailman | anyone | Used for rounds related announcements |
| tech-squares-mondaythursday-rounds | mailman | anyone | Used for announcements related to Monday Thursday rounds class |
| tech-squares-social | mailman | anyone | Used to announce social activities that Tech Squares members might be interested in |
| tech-squares-discuss | mailman | anyone | Used to discuss hack tips, constitution changes, and other Tech Squares topics |
| tech-squares-interest | mailman | anyone who might be interested in joining Tech Squares | Very low volume, gets announcements about intro night and start of class |
| tech-squares-class | mailman | Members of the current Tech Squares class | Not to be confused with the class committee or coordinator. This has all the current class, and it gets refilled every semester. Used for, among other things, the Class Coordinator's weekly mailing to the class. |
| tech-squares-officers | moira | Current Tech Squares Officers (elected and appointed), sometimes past officers | |
| squares | moira | alias for tech-squares-officers | This is the email we put on our website / otherwise make accessible to the world |
| squares-ec | moira | current Tech Squares Executive Committee members | |
| squares-ec-incoming | moira | incoming Tech Squares EC members (in ~April-May) | |
| squares-request | moira | alias for tech-squares-officers | this list is the owner of many of our other lists |
| squares-webapps | moira | people developing webapps for Tech Squares | |
| tech-squares-acl | moira | people who have athena locker access | used to control who has athena locker access |
| tech-squares-class-committee | moira | club members who help with walkthrus, pay attention to the class, or want to get the class email. | This is on the class list, so these people get mail for the class. |
| tech-squares-class-coordinator | moira | Class Coordinator, Class Assistants; these are elected/appointed officers. | Used for discussions about running the class; these messages do not go out to the class. |
| tech-squares-club-acl | |||
| tech-squares-request-old | |||
| tech-squares-staff | moira | club employees, squares@mit.edu | |
| tech-squares-students | moira | members who are also MIT students | |
| tech-squares-treasurer | moira | Treasurers | |
| tech-squares-rounds-coordinators | moira | Rounds coordinators | |
| tech-squares-rooms | moira | Rooming coordinator (+ interested officers) | Contact for regular dance organizers wanting a room. (First-time organizers should contact squares@.) |
| squares-room-reservations | mailman | Archive; optionally people who deal with rooms | CC it on confirmations of all room reservations (CAC+Schedules) |
| a1-dancers@, a2-dancers@, ..., c3b-dancers@, c4-dancers@ | mailman | People who dance the applicable level | Used to announce dances whose lowest level is the named level; multi-level dances are generally sent to only the lowest applicable list, so (eg) C4 dancers should perhaps be on all of them (an event with A2-C4 dancing might go only to a2-dancers@) |
| challenge-discuss | mailman | Interested | Challenge-related discussion (recovery skills, how to dance a call, convention plans) |
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