# Do you want Elm to be part of Exercism first research experiment?

**URL:** <https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/do-you-want-elm-to-be-part-of-exercism-first-research-experiment/4708>\
**Category:** Request Feedback\
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 9:42am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/do-you-want-elm-to-be-part-of-exercism-first-research-experiment/4708 "2019-11-21T09:42:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![mattpiz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/mattpiz/32/860_2.png) [@mattpiz](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/mattpiz)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 9:42am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/do-you-want-elm-to-be-part-of-exercism-first-research-experiment/4708/1 "2019-11-21T09:42:39Z")

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For those who don’t know [Exercism](https://exercism.io), it’s a project aiming at helping you learn other programming languages with exercises. It features a mentorship model which unfortunately is a little unbalanced (not enough mentors). So a redesign of the core functionalities is ongoing, in partnership with academics. They are launching their first research experiment and asking for tracks (languages) willing to participate. More details on their [blog post](https://exercism.io/blog/announcing-exercism-research).

I would be interested in Elm participating but I might not have the time right now to handle it. Let me know if you want to manage this. I can keep you in the loop. Familiarity with the current Exercism model is required in my opinion so you might first try the website as a student, then mentor, and submit a PR to the track to understand the behind the scenes. This might already take a few days.

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**Author:** ![ceddlyburge](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/ceddlyburge/32/2316_2.png) [@ceddlyburge](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/ceddlyburge)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/do-you-want-elm-to-be-part-of-exercism-first-research-experiment/4708/2 "2019-11-29T08:34:06Z")

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I mentor on the elm channel on exercism, and I think its a great service. The elm students do usually get mentored in a reasonable time frame, although I believe its not the case for all languages. Anyway, I would be happy to help out with the research.

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**Author:** ![mattpiz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/mattpiz/32/860_2.png) [@mattpiz](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/mattpiz)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/do-you-want-elm-to-be-part-of-exercism-first-research-experiment/4708/3 "2019-11-29T15:45:17Z")

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Glad to see you’re also interested in this! I’ve sent you a message on exercism slack

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**Author:** ![mattpiz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/mattpiz/32/860_2.png) [@mattpiz](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/mattpiz)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/do-you-want-elm-to-be-part-of-exercism-first-research-experiment/4708/4 "2019-11-29T15:53:33Z")

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aaaaand I just saw your post XD

> [@Using Discourse instead of Slack for the community](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/using-discourse-instead-of-slack-for-the-community/4736/13):
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> In my opinion, discourse is brilliant, and slack is mostly a waste of time (I don’t use it at all, for anything, any more)

I believe the experiment organization will happen on Exercism slack. Let me know what are your constraints in PM.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/1X/50a05e53677a2c3b47776d7abd0f113eb50193a1.png) [@system](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/do-you-want-elm-to-be-part-of-exercism-first-research-experiment/4708/5 "2019-12-09T15:53:35Z")

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