What should we do for the summer event this year?

General
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Hi,

If there are no objections to the following I’ll post the announcement (with any corrections) on 1 Aug 2023 on Racket Discourse

Best regards

Stephen :standard_fish: :beetle:

The 2023 Racket Summer Event

This years theme is ‘racket examples’

The task is create an example - code and description - of a feature or algorithm.

Entry Categories

There will be two categories:

Small to medium examples

for inclusion in https://docs.racket-lang.org/
(Or perhaps the Racket-Cookbooks · GitHub )

larger examples

As a vignette or blog post.
Also for https://docs.racket-lang.org/ but these may be considered for possible publication (or republication) on the official Racket Blog)

How to submit?

Two phase

  1. Publish your submission
    this can be
  • a pull request to the relevant repository
  • a blog post
  • a post (‘topic’) on the Racket Discourse (category: Show & Tell with the tag ‘example’
  1. Notify the organisers: this will be a web form and will also include consent to use the entries and contact information for prizes. Personal information (name and address) will be kept private and only be use for the purpose of arranging postage of prizes. Personal information will not be retained after the event. Is concluded.

Rules

  • Entries open 1 Aug 2023
  • Entries close 20 October 2023 (in your timezone)
  • Winners will be announced at RacketCon 2023 and on RacketDiscourse.
  • entries must be racket related: any language on the racket platform including languages not part of the standard distribution; it can be racket/base, typed racket, Qi, RacketScript, Zuo, Urlang, Rhombus, Nora(LLVM Racket compiler), Shplait, or something else entirely.
  • All entries must include :standard_fish:

Prizes!

  • the admiration of your peers
  • stickers!
  • tbc

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