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<h1><a href="/"><img class="srfi-logo" src="srfi-logo.svg" alt="SRFI surfboard logo" /></a>History of Scheme Requests for Implementation</h1>
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At the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19990428131650/http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/kelsey/workshop.html">Scheme
Workshop</a> held in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 26, 1998,
the attendees considered a number of proposals for standardized
feature sets for inclusion in Scheme implementations. (Here are
the <a href="history/minutes.txt">minutes</a>.)
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Alan Bawden proposed that there be a <a
href="history/bawden.txt">repository
for library proposals</a>. <a
href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/">Shriram
Krishnamurthi</a> volunteered to host the library, and <a
href="http://www.sarg.ryerson.ca/dmason/">Dave Mason</a> and
<a href="http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/">Mike
Sperber</a> joined him as initial editors and coordinators of
the library process. The term "Requests for Implementation,"
an allusion to the Internet "Requests for Comments," was
coined at the workshop, and expanded into "Scheme Requests for
Implementation" by the editors.</p>
<p>On November 1, 1998, the <code>srfi minus discuss</code> mailing list
was established which had as subscribers many major implementors
of Scheme as well as other contributors to the language. An
archive of the discussion is split between
<a href="srfi-discuss-1998/maillist.html">1998-1999</a> and <a href="https://srfi-email.schemers.org/srfi-discuss/">2002-present</a>.</p>
<p>The SRFI web site along with the other SRFI procedures was
established in late December 1998.</p>
<p>On January 27, 2002, Dave Mason and Shriram Krishnamurthi
<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=w7dn0yzrs3j.fsf%40cs.brown.edu&output=gplain">retired</a> as SRFI editors. At the same time, <a href="http://people.netscape.com/drush/">David Rush</a> and <a href="http://biblio06.fciencias.unam.mx/solsona/">Francisco Solsona</a> joined as new SRFI editors.</p>
<p>On March 14, 2004, <a href="http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dvanhorn/">David
Van Horn</a> joined as a new SRFI editor.</p>
<p>On September 2, 2005, David Rush retired as SRFI editor; at the
same time, <a href="http://www.rscheme.org/~donovan/">Donovan
Kolbly</a> joined as a new SRFI editor.</p>
<p>On April 21, 2015, Arthur A. Gleckler joined as an editor after
Michael announced his coming retirement as editor.</p>
<p>On July 7, 2015, David Van Horn, Donovan Kolbly, Francisco
Solona, and Mike Sperber retired.</p>
<p>On the same date, web and email hosting for SRFI <a
href="http://srfi-email.schemers.org/srfi-announce/msg/2736115">was
moved</a> based on a new <a href="hosting-plan.html">Hosting Plan</a>.</p>
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<address><a href="mailto:srfi-editors at srfi dot schemers dot org"></a></address>
<p>The history of this document is <a href="https://github.com/scheme-requests-for-implementation/srfi-common/commits/master/srfi-history.html">here</a>.
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