[racket-users] Call For Workshop Proposals

['Sam Tobin-Hochstadt' via users-redirect]

CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS
ICFP 2019
 24th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming


   August 18 - 23, 2019 
  Berlin, Germany
https://icfp19.sigplan.org/

The 24th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming
will be held in Berlin, Germany on August 18-23, 2019.
ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the 
latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of 
functional programming.

Proposals are invited for workshops (and other co-located events, such
as symposiums) to be affiliated with ICFP 2019 and sponsored by
SIGPLAN. These events should be less formal and more focused than ICFP
itself, include sessions that enable interaction among the attendees,
and foster the exchange of new ideas. The preference is for one-day
events, but other schedules can also be considered.

The workshops are scheduled to occur on August 18th (the day
before ICFP) and 22-23th of August (the two days after ICFP).

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Submission details
 Deadline for submission: November 25, 2018
 Notification of acceptance:  December 23, 2018

Prospective organizers of workshops or other co-located events are
invited to submit a completed workshop proposal form in plain text
format to the ICFP 2019 workshop co-chairs
(Jennifer Hackett and Christophe Scholliers), via email to

icfp-workshops-2...@googlegroups.com

by November 25, 2018. (For proposals of co-located events other than
workshops, please fill in the workshop proposal form and just leave
blank any sections that do not apply.) Please note that this is a firm
deadline.

Organizers will be notified if their event proposal is accepted by
December 23, 2018, and if successful, depending on the event, they
will be asked to produce a final report after the event has taken
place that is suitable for publication in SIGPLAN Notices.

The proposal form is available at:

http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2019-files/icfp19-workshops-form.txt

Further information about SIGPLAN sponsorship is available at:

http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Proposals/Sponsored/

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Selection committee

The proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the
following members of the ICFP 2019 organizing committee, together with
the members of the SIGPLAN executive committee.

 Workshop Co-Chair: Jennifer Hackett(University of Nottingham)
 Workshop Co-Chair: Christophe Scholliers(University of Ghent)
 General Chair: Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS) 
 Program Chair: François Potier(Inria)


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Further information

Any queries should be addressed to the workshop co-chairs (Jennifer 
Hackett and Christophe Scholliers), via email to 
icfp-workshops-2...@googlegroups.com

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[racket-users] Re: Goblins, and actor model library for Racket, gets its first release

[Zelphir Kaltstahl]

I have not tried the Goblins library yet, but it sounds great! 
Also kudos for doing the free software thing! I hope you can keep it up and 
that many people support you in the free software endeavors. 

On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 5:10:18 PM UTC+1, cwebber wrote:
>
> Hello all, 
>
> I've made the first release of Goblins (v0.1), the lightweight actor 
> model I'm building for Racket which will be the foundation for my future 
> distributed virtual worlds work in Racket.  It is *not* production 
> ready, consider this a pre-alpha, but you can get it from Racket's 
> package repository, and read the docs here: 
>
>   https://docs.racket-lang.org/goblins/ 
>
> I think the docs give a pretty nice overview of what using Goblins 
> should "feel" like. 
>
> The long term goal of Goblins is to bring secure, distributed object 
> capability computation to Racket, inspired largely by the E programming 
> language (Goblins borrows many of its good ideas, including the promise 
> pipelining features).  It doesn't do distributed computation yet, but 
> I'm hoping to roll that out in the next couple of months. 
>
> Be aware that there are bugs.  In particular, I've hit some interesting 
> bugs involving delimited continuations: 
>   https://gitlab.com/spritely/goblins/issues/8 
> (I think I may be poking at some interesting internals of Racket in the 
> ways I'm pushing delimited continuations to their limits... recently I 
> even managed to segfault the GC.  I'll follow up on that stuff on the 
> other thread I started recently shortly.) 
>
> Anyway, I think it's an exciting foundation.  I'd love to hear feedback. 
>
>  - Chris 
>
> If you are curious about what this long term plan about building secure 
> virtual worlds in Racket is, I wrote a blogpost named "Spritely: towards 
> secure social spaces as virtual worlds": 
>   https://dustycloud.org/blog/spritely/ 
>
> I have recently switched to working on this full time.  I don't have a 
> funding plan yet, but I am committed to make sure that the Spritely 
> project as a whole is a public good.  If you think this work is 
> exciting, consider supporting my work: 
>   https://www.patreon.com/cwebber 
>

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