# Racket meet-up Saturday 1 April 2023 at 18:00 UTC :racket:

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**Tags:** event, meet-up\
**Created:** [March 25, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-1-april-2023-at-18-00-utc/1756 "2023-03-25T19:00:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![spdegabrielle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/spdegabrielle/32/95_2.png) [@spdegabrielle](https://racket.discourse.group/u/spdegabrielle)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-1-april-2023-at-18-00-utc/1756/3 "2023-04-02T12:04:10Z")

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Firstly: my apologies - I set the wrong time on the discord event.

We effectively had two meet-ups;

The first included Sage @slg giving a demo about his work innovating in software distribution & package management space.

As I got the time wrong I’d appreciate it if the attendees could reply with a short summary of the first half of the meet-up _for the record_ I’d really appreciate it.

(I missed most of the demo and don’t know what else was discussed)

@slg mentioned that he would be setting up a site [https://typeand.click/](https://typeand.click/) but in the meantime was happy to be contacted.

Also discussed was the influential poet Owen Barfield and _The Muse in the Machine_ by David Gelernter.

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The second session included discussion of Racketfest; a higher number of Racketeers (in a very nice venue) enjoyed excellent presentations. Not least was [Untitled Maze Game (Pacman)](https://racket.discourse.group/t/untitled-maze-game-pacman/1838) by Jens @soegaard. (I had a [first go at making a level](https://gist.github.com/spdegabrielle/4541b10fa30f9d497d258a5dc47ec94a) - it was fun and easy so **have a go** )

@dominik.pantucek got us very excited by sharing that there is a possibility to hold next years Racketfest in Prague

These was also discussion of text interfaces (Plan9!) with the [Expeditor (Terminal Expression Editor)](https://docs.racket-lang.org/expeditor/index.html) and [Unicode Tables](https://docs.racket-lang.org/uni-table/index.html) packages being called out as enabling building-blocks if someone wanted to build a full [Text User Interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface) in Racket.

Finally, we have identified that Gather is now blocking more than 10 attendees to the meet-up (we have previously had many more)  
…so we need to find a solution.

PS please let me know if I’ve omitted anything

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