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Wishing you success with university Stephen On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 14:16, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju <juzhenli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Stephen > > Thank you for noticing me about the Racket Slack. > I lost the internet since I was working on the sea during the last two > years that no stable internet connection was available. > Now I am planning my way for the second chance to go back to the > university. > It's time to move to the Slack as well. > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 7:04 PM Stephen De Gabrielle < > spdegabrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Welcome back! >> >> Thank you for taking the time to both do the survey and also your >> follow-up email. >> >> I'll admit I'm not currently using typed/racket, but it does get a >> significant number of issues and questions on the racket slack, so it >> was my impression that a significant subset of the community is using it. >> >> > Also, I feel sad my questions tend to be less noticed. >> My apologies. I think the community recognise this as an issue and I'm >> hoping the survey will help inform plans to improve the situation. >> >> There has been a significant move of general q&a activity away from the >> mailing lists to the Racket Slack. This is not surprising as communities do >> change over time and many Open source language communities have moved some >> or all of their activity to chat systems. >> >> I'm hoping we can use the results of the survey to improve this >> situation. (Suggestions welcome!) >> >> Kind regards >> >> Stephen >> >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 7:51 AM WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju < >> juzhenli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Greetings. >>> >>> I am back after a two-year away. >>> >>> One issue I had forgotten before I submitted the survey is that >>> there seems to be a big gap between Typed Racket and Untyped Racket. >>> I doubt no one is maintaining the typed APIs in the main-dist, and also >>> no one is really treating typed/racket as one's prominent dialect >>> except those who work on typed/racket for their own academic things. >>> Once ago I did submit some pull requests for adding missing >>> typed APIs, later as my codebase totally written in the typed racket >>> grows, sending pull requests becomes a trivial task since I just >>> submitted for pieces as tiny as I need at those moments. >>> >>> Also, I feel sad my questions tend to be less noticed. >>> >>> Anyway, I am glad to share my projects with the community in the future >>> despite the detailed time might not be guaranteed. >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 12:22 AM Sam Tobin-Hochstadt < >>> sa...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> We’re taking a survey! We want to better understand the Racket >>>> community, from people who have been contributing for decades to those >>>> who have just joined us, and from seasoned programmers to those just >>>> starting out. >>>> >>>> One of our goals is to help bring in new contributors and make it >>>> easier to become a part of the community. >>>> >>>> Fill out the survey here: https://forms.gle/XeHdgv8R7o2VjBbF9 >>>> >>>> Completing the survey should take 10–15 minutes, and is anonymous >>>> (unless you decide to include your name). The survey will be open >>>> until July 31 and we will report on the results sometime after that. >>>> >>>> Please help us spread the word by sharing the survey link on your >>>> social network feeds, at conferences, around your office, and in other >>>> communities. >>>> >>>> If you have any questions, please let us know at sur...@racket-lang.org >>>> . >>>> >>>> Stephen De Gabrielle & Sam Tobin-Hochstadt >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAK%3DHD%2BYS-H-WGUZBkBvMdd_LBd9AyMPEk6838rtRjmd_LYkWLg%40mail.gmail.com >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> 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 racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAFp0D54wh9GcYe%3D%3DZV3gxHvebrzzHYrtMOkmFbqO-StLu1HfNQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAFp0D54wh9GcYe%3D%3DZV3gxHvebrzzHYrtMOkmFbqO-StLu1HfNQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- ---- -- 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 racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAGHj7-%2B%3DELAoxtc4vPU0XSkWOybnDWLgPoSVL-e%3DAyMs9As7ng%40mail.gmail.com.
