RacketCon 2012

The Racket Blog 2013-03-15

We're pleased to announce that (second RacketCon) will take place on October 13, 2012, at Northeastern University in Boston. This year, RacketCon will feature 3 2-hour tutorial sessions, as well as a series of short talks about development in and of Racket over the last year. Potential tutorial sessions include:

Building a new domain-specific language using syntactic extension
Using contracts in application development
Adding types to an existing application with Typed Racket
Parallelizing Racket applications with futures and places

Potential talks include:

submodules
WhaleSong
futures and visualization
distributed places
optimization coaching
Dracula and ACL2
PLT Redex

Lunch will be provided. On Sunday after RacketCon, we plan to hold a hackathon to work as a group on various Racket projects such as documentation improvements and FFI bindings. This will be organized by Asumu Takikawa. To register, fill out this form. The conference website has more information.