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Wishing you success with university Stephen On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 14:16, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 < >> [email protected]> 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 < >>> [email protected]> 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 [email protected] >>>> . >>>> >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>> 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAGHj7-%2B%3DELAoxtc4vPU0XSkWOybnDWLgPoSVL-e%3DAyMs9As7ng%40mail.gmail.com.
