Thinking about evangelism... I go to a functional programming meetup and we usually do "lightning talks" which are described as:
"Sticking with our short talk/demo format, we will once again have 3 - 5 > slots available for you to show what you're working on, share something you > learned, or demo some cool code. > > The presentation should aim to be 5 - 15 minutes, with a hard time limit > of 20 minutes. Please post a comment with a brief description of what you'd > like to present. Anything FP-related is fair game! > > I'd really like to encourage as many members as possible to participate. > Even if you're just learning something, you can still present. It will help > you learn it more deeply by sharing and explaining." > I've given two, with a 3rd one planned: 1) you can customize #%app and that's pretty cool 2) define/contract made me realize static typing isn't as important as I've always thought 3) scribble is awesome (seriously, does any language have a better code documentation tool?) Obviously there are many great things about Racket, but it can be hard to think of a talk that 1) targets FPers who may not have scheme experience 2) can be explained quickly 3) leaves the audience thinking "that's cool, maybe I should take a look at Racket" Any ideas? -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
