The conversation between the OCaml creators and the community is a lot more focussed. Back in 2005 when we were developing the Xen toolstack using OCaml [1], I

The conversation between the OCaml creators and the community is a lot more focussed. Back in 2005 when we were developing the Xen toolstack using OCaml [1], I subscribed Xensource to the Caml Consortium [2]. This let us meet with the main team once a year, and air our concerns in a structured way. This is so much easier to handle than a firehose of e-mails. Nowadays I still attend the annual Consortium meeting, but more in a capacity of reporting on our activities at OCaml Labs and there are still a healthy set of industrial users who like this mode of interaction. [1] http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-icfp-xen.pdf http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-icfp-xen.pdf [2] http://caml.inria.fr/consortium/ http://caml.inria.fr/consortium/