Qi 5 Release Party

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Hey all,
After a year of work, Qi is nearing a new release. Please join us for the release party on 2025-01-17T18:00:00Z (i.e. Friday two weeks from today)! Read on for more details.

Qi allows you to embed expressive flow-oriented computations into any Racket #lang (including Racket itself). The upcoming Qi 5 release includes lots of improvements, from allowing seamless use of Qi flows in standard list operations like map, filter and foldl, to extending Qi's deforestation to custom list operations written by you. This release especially develops Qi's deforestation infrastructure to support this kind of user-extensibility while also preserving theoretical soundness, opening up a lot of avenues for future development.

Please join us at the Qi 5 release party to learn more about the language, the very cool features included in the upcoming release, and some really fun future projects planned (from more deforestation, to continuations, to #lang experiments, to category theory, and much more!), and how you can be involved if you're interested. Or just stop by to hang out and have some tea or drinks -- virtually, of course -- with your fellow community members :slight_smile:

All are welcome. Hope to see you there!

What: Qi 5 release party :tada:
When: 2025-01-17T18:00:00Z
Where: Racket Gather (no signup required)
Who: You!
Why: Fun

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Just to make sure I get the right time: that looks like the same time as the usual Qi meeting on my calendar?

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Yes, that's right, It's at the usual time. Thanks for confirming that that's how it appears on your end, as we've definitely had issues with that before :laughing: !

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Pacific Time PT Fri 17 Jan 2025 at 10:00 PST
Mountain Time MT Fri 17 Jan 2025 at 11:00 MST
Central Time CT Fri 17 Jan 2025 at 12:00 CST
Eastern Time ET Fri 17 Jan 2025 at 13:00 EST
London United Kingdom Fri 17 Jan 2025 at 18:00 GMT
Prague Czechia Fri 17 Jan 2025 at 19:00 CET
Taipei Taiwan Sat 18 Jan 2025 at 02:00 CST

You can put your own city in the converter:

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Reminder: this is tomorrow! We'll be doing the new release, discussing exciting future plans and ways to be involved, and having some fun. Maybe Ferdinand will even grace us with a special performance. :smiley_cat: Hope you can join us!