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. (Officers: the links are at the bottom of Passwords.)
Current mailing lists
Name (Follow links to sign up) | 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-rounds-class | mailman | anyone | Used for Tech Squares rounds class discussion |
| 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) |
| squares-shenanigans | mailman | anyone | Planning of shenanigans (hexes, mirror, etc.), at Tuesday or otherwise |
Inactive lists
| Name (link to listinfo) | moira or mailman? | Who can be on it | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| tech-squares-thursday-rounds | mailman | anyone | Used for announcements related to Thursday rounds class |
| tech-squares-monday-rounds-class | mailman | anyone | Used for announcements related to Monday rounds class |
Sample reminder email
Hi folks,
With a bunch of new members, as well as old members who didn't necessarily sign up for lists when they (eg) learned a level, it seems like a decent idea to go over our mailing lists again. Many of the lists have received traffic in the last couple weeks, so if you're not sure if you're on it but haven't gotten mail, you should double-check.
*Higher-level dancing*
We have lists for all levels A1-C4 (a1-dancers@, a2-dancers@, ..., c3b-dancers@, c4-dancers@). These lists are unmoderated, and get emails announcing dances at applicable levels (and some other relevant events). Note that multi-level dances are generally sent to only the lowest applicable list, so you should generally join all lists up to your highest level, as an event with A2-C4 dancing might go only to a2-dancers@.
Sign up on the Mailman list info pages:
https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/a1-dancers
https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/a2-dancers
https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/c1-dancers
https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/c2-dancers
https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/c3a-dancers
https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/c3b-dancers
https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/c4-dancers
In addition, Challenge-related discussion (recovery skills, how to dance a call, convention plans) sometimes happens on challenge-discuss@ ( https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/challenge-discuss ).
*Rounds*
For general, relatively low-traffic rounds information join tech-squares-rounds@ ( https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tech-squares-rounds ).
For Andy's rounds class, join tech-squares-rounds@ ( https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tech-squares-rounds-class ).
*General*
This list, tech-squares@, is the general, moderated club list, and you're presumably on it if you're reading this. Yay.
For unmoderated social traffic, such as dinner before squares, coordinating visiting other plus dances, or inviting square dancers to parties, we have tech-squares-social@ ( http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tech-squares-social ).
For unmoderated discussion traffic, such as hack tips or club policies, we have tech-squares-discuss@ ( http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tech-squares-discuss ).
We have a longer list of mailing lists on our wiki at https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/techsquares/Mailing+Lists .
*Recent mail*
If you aren't sure which lists you're on, note that a2-dancers@, c1-dancers@, and c3a-dancers@ have all gotten mail this week. tech-squares-discuss@, tech-squares-social@, and tech-squares-rounds@/tech-squares-monday-rounds-class@ (two emails, to both) have all gotten mail this month.