the motivation for reformulating the announcement of the end of the [racket-users] mailing list and the migration to Discourse as a forum for Racket
“[racket-users] Racket Discourse” is too vague to suffice as the body of the “Subject” field of an announcement of the end of the racket-users mailing list and the migration to Discourse as a forum for Racket, so I sent a message with a “Subject” field that identifies the subject at hand. I regret having produced so much heat and so little light. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/2021-11-27_explanation_of_2021-11-22_the_end_of_racket-users_or_the_final_plonk%40r-6.org.
the end of the [racket-users] mailing list and the migration to Discourse as a forum for Racket
the end of the [racket-users] mailing list and the migration to Discourse as a forum for RacketThe stewards of Racket have decided that it’s time to give up on the mailing list (that is, racket-users, to which this message is a contribution). The stewards of Racket have designated another forum for Racket as the successor to racket-users. This other forum for discussing Racket has as its basis the software named “Discourse”, which is open‐source. Enlisting is prerequisite to contributing to the Discursive forum for Racket. Enlisting is prerequisite to receiving as Internet mail the contributions to the Discursive forum for Racket. The stewards of Racket have published a facility for enlisting as a participant in the Discursive forum for Racket.
saneboxes: welcome remedies for a world in turmoil [racket-users]
Matthew Flatt recommended “wrapping the sanebox creation”. Matthew, these saneboxes that you’ve invented seem to be just the devices that we’ve needed. We’d like an initial batch of 5000 saneboxes, as soon as you can manage, even if unwrapped. Please send the bill to 1500, Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, District of Columbia, 20220, United States of America. We appreciate your timely help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/2020-08-16_saneboxes%40r-6.org.
turtle’s outline on blue plaid as main image in initial window of DrRacket on 2020‐06‐11: an Easter egg and a curiosity (veering off topic for [racket-users])
On 2020‐06‐11, DrRacket, at initialization, presented to me, instead of the Racket logo, a sea turtle’s outline in thick, gray strokes, filled with the deep blue and deep red of the Racket logo, against a background of plaid of light blue and medium blue. The image is quite appealing, even beautiful. What is the association between 2020‐06‐11 and sea turtles? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/2020-06-14_DrRacket_Easter_egg_2020-06-11_sea_turtle%40r-6.org.
[racket] Racketeers: a welcoming, friendly, educated, insightful, patient, responsive, and helpful community
Less than forty minutes after I posed my first question to the Racketeers, core Racket author Matthew Flatt offered two solutions to me and to the Racketeers. Make that “the other Racketeers”. Though I’d only lurked around discussions taking place on Racket’s “users” e‐mail forum, I had, within a few months of such lurking, come to feel a pleasant sense of membership in the Racket community. The journey started on 2013‐01‐02, when I wrote a message to the maintainers of Racket’s Web site, posing the question that I’d eventually pose to the other Racketeers. Core Racket author Eli Barzilay responded, advising that I ask the Racketeers on “users”. I had unhappily expected such a response; my lips curled into a frown. I delayed subscribing for some time, dreading the flood of unwanted e‐mail. I was wrong to dread. About my subscription, I regret only the delay that I took in placing it. Racketeers form a community that is unusually welcoming, friendly, educated, insightful, patient, responsive, and helpful. Discussions between other Racketeers have often broadened and deepened my mind. I’m grateful for the education that you’ve given to me. I thank you, Eli. I thank you, Matthew. I thank you, Racketeers. It just so happens that, as I was writing the foregoing passage, I was listening to “Fire‐Breathing Fists”, Totalcult’s mash‐up of Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain” and Charlie Sheen’s manic proclamations. With that inspiration, and without apology to the formidable Mr Sheen, I offer the following. I am on a drug. It’s called “Racket”. Racket’s got magic and it’s got poetry in its fingertips. Get with the program. It’s all good. News flash: Racket is special! Boom. Bring it. It’s on! Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
[racket] generating Racket’s logo
How would I generate a Racket logo at some arbitrary size? I prefer to use Racket to do so, but an SVG file would satisfy me. I searched the sources and the WWW to some degree but to no avail. Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
