Re: (chaperone RacketCon) 2020
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Jay McCarthy
Sep 3, 2020, 9:20:33 AM9/3/20
to Racket Users, Racket Developers
The site is up with speakers and times:
https://con.racket-lang.org/
Please get pumped and put the dates in your calendars.
And stay tuned for details about how technically the conference will work.
Thanks everyone!
<3
Jay
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Jay McCarthy
Associate Professor @ CS @ UMass Lowell
http://jeapostrophe.github.io
Vincit qui se vincit.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 7:25 PM Jay McCarthy <jay.mc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In October 2020, we'll be holding a virtual RacketCon, rather than an
> in-person meeting as usual. We hope to get back to normal in 2021. We
> have not worked out the exact dates and details, but have a few
> parameters.
>
> We're thinking about following PLDI, where the general model is to
> have pre-recorded talks, which I would help presenters prepare,
> followed by live Q&A with an MC relaying questions from Slack. We'd
> hope to have the usual State of Racket presentation from Matthew,
> which would lead into a town hall Q&A/comment session with members of
> the Racket team.
>
> The main details we need to work out now are exactly which and how
> many days to run it and in what time slots and in what time zones. I
> would greatly appreciate any comments you have in response to this
> form:
>
> https://forms.gle/cYNNY9XhmEoUBBe19
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jay
>
> --
> Jay McCarthy
> Associate Professor @ CS @ UMass Lowell
> http://jeapostrophe.github.io
> Vincit qui se vincit.
https://con.racket-lang.org/
Please get pumped and put the dates in your calendars.
And stay tuned for details about how technically the conference will work.
Thanks everyone!
<3
Jay
--
Jay McCarthy
Associate Professor @ CS @ UMass Lowell
http://jeapostrophe.github.io
Vincit qui se vincit.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 7:25 PM Jay McCarthy <jay.mc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In October 2020, we'll be holding a virtual RacketCon, rather than an
> in-person meeting as usual. We hope to get back to normal in 2021. We
> have not worked out the exact dates and details, but have a few
> parameters.
>
> We're thinking about following PLDI, where the general model is to
> have pre-recorded talks, which I would help presenters prepare,
> followed by live Q&A with an MC relaying questions from Slack. We'd
> hope to have the usual State of Racket presentation from Matthew,
> which would lead into a town hall Q&A/comment session with members of
> the Racket team.
>
> The main details we need to work out now are exactly which and how
> many days to run it and in what time slots and in what time zones. I
> would greatly appreciate any comments you have in response to this
> form:
>
> https://forms.gle/cYNNY9XhmEoUBBe19
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jay
>
> --
> Jay McCarthy
> Associate Professor @ CS @ UMass Lowell
> http://jeapostrophe.github.io
> Vincit qui se vincit.
geoff
Sep 29, 2020, 10:57:48 AM9/29/20
to Racket Developers
I was very excited to stumble upon the RacketCon 2020 program this morning.
It looks great!
If you don't have the videoconferencing details all worked out yet, one contact I suggest for advice is
Oli Makhasoeva aka @Oli_kitty
Since the pandemic hit, I think I've attended a half dozen virtual conferences run by Oli (and her friends), including ScalaUA, Scala Love, Scala in the City, Haskell Love. With each iteration they better and better. They started with Zoom and YouTube, then when they had a problem with YouTube they quickly switched to Twitch.tv and later moved the videos to YouTube. They tend to run two tracks simultaneously, and have hallways for discussion and sometimes areas for detailed Q&A. What I've been most impressed with is no matter what obstacles technology throws their way, they adapt very quickly and come up with new solutions.
Scala in the City: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScalaintheCity/videos
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