Every few months, the principals of the Racket world meet for a day to discuss the state and near (and, occasionally, distant) future of the Racket world. We met this past weekend in London, and here is the list of major points we discussed.
1. Encouraged by generous donations from our user community, we will resume our exploration the possibility of working with Software Conservancy for donations via our web site. 2. DrDr will change so that it tests pushes to our package repos on a continuous basis. For details, see Jay McCarthy's separate email announcement. 3. We decided that the test release went as well as we could hope for and to make few changes to the process. For details, see Ryan Culpepper's upcoming messages. ALSO NOTE: the release process for the actual 6.2 release was launched. 4. At the suggestion of one our prominent users, we discussed the idea of "ambassadors" on social networks. We took stock of what we had and decided that most prominent SNs are covered at the moment so we will not call for more help, though help with publicizing Racket on these outlets is always welcome. Here are the networks we considered: StackOverflow, Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. We may also scan Lambda The Ultimate in the future. PLEASE: whenever you see an opportunity on one of these outlets, please do point people to racket-lang.org and suggest that they explore an alternative to all these maintstream languages. -- Jay, Matthew, Robby, Sam, and Matthias -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/8774D9DB-4ED2-4B4F-B7C2-D2C8DD5E5C25%40ccs.neu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
