Racketfest 2021 Amateur Night: Call for Participation, lightning talks, artwork, posters, and more!

[je...@lisp.sh]

Save the date: March 26 & 27

AMATEUR NIGHT FOR RACKETEERS!!

The Racketfest Organizers

Offer a Proud Prelude to

the Next Racketfest

in

GATHER.TOWN!!

A Chance to Show Your Skills,

Hidden Talents, and New Work in

the Racket Programming Language

& Mingle with Your Fellow Racketeers

https://racketfest.com

This is a call for participation, whether in the form of

+ Prerecorded Lightning Talks

+ Screencasts

+ Posters

+ Artwork (à la standard-fish) for decorating the Gather space

This year Racketfest goes online, to Gather, following the brilliant example of the 2020 RacketCon. It'll be in two 4-hour blocks:

+ Friday, March 26 from 20:00 to 23:59 Central European Time (14:00 to 17:59 US Eastern Time; 06:00 to 10:00 Australian Eastern Time, Saturday, March 27)

+ Saturday, March 27, again from from 20:00 to 23:59 Central European Time

The times are designed to make it possible for Europe-based Racketeers to get together as well as US-based ones, and even those based way out in Australia, New Zealand, and East Asia (at least for part of the event).

Your participation is needed! This year Racketfest is deliberately eschewing traditional talks in favor of a kind of "amateur night", where you can give a lightning talk (5-10 minutes, maybe more), submit a poster to be hung up, set up a stand for doing a tutorial on a topic of your choice. Here are some suggestions for what you could submit:

+ Anything you're working on. It doesn't have to be finished! We're talking about:

    * libraries,

    * #langs,

    * applications whether command-line or GUI,

    * tools

+ A DrRacket hack you like (Quickscript, anyone?), an Emacs racket-mode pro tip, or any other developer convenience

+ A paper you recently read (or wrote!)

+ A Racket project you'd like to start and perhaps need some feedback, guidance, or would like to solicit help

+ Something you'd like to teach others (break-out rooms will be available)

+ Open mic: sound off on some Racket-y topic that's on your mind

Please let me know if you would like to submit something! The call for participation is wide open. The bar for participation is kept deliberately low. You can do a 5-minute talk, right? You're even welcome to submit multiple lightning talks, if you wish.

In addition:

ARTWORK IS NEEDED

We will have an art gallery, where Racket-generated art will adorn the Gather walls. Please submit! Just reply to me privately, or write to organ...@racketfest.com .

More details at https://racketfest.com . Register at https://racketfest.com/register . On Twitter at @racketfest .

-- The Racketfest Organizers