The release of Racket has prompted some web discussion, which might be instructive to anyone thinking about our "marketing".
On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Racket/duplicates/ccf0w/announcing_racket/ On Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411265 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408292 On Lambda the Ultimate: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3976 On some Russian LiveJournal: http://grundik.livejournal.com/454292.html (translation: http://tinyurl.com/34ovw7v) On comp.lang.scheme: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/browse_thread/thread/f4b5f1990a44b7f8/f2641c802a73e68f My takeaways: 1. People like the new homepage, although mostly for the graphical design 2. It's better not to have things available online before all the links etc work. 3. We should probably have a link to the name change page on the front page for a little while, maybe a month. This is by far the most common question. 4. We should have a "Try Racket in the browser" link, like this: http://tryruby.org/ 5. We need something in between the slick examples on the home page and the docs, although that will take work. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
