[plt-scheme] Scheme Hackathon at ICFP 2009?

You might wish to consider porting as many Planet packages (and even  
core libraries) as possible to Typed Scheme, first with adapter  
modules then going into them. Warning: we do not have polymorphism  
under control and we don't support class.ss yet (on the class  
definition side).

We could advertise it as 'adding types to one untyped language in 36  
hours'. -- Matthias






On Oct 16, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Noel Welsh wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> At ICFP 2007 the Haskell guys organised a "Hackathon":
>
>   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac_2007_II
>
> "It is a coding festival, focusing on producing and improving Haskell
> libraries, tools and infrastructure."
>
> I wonder if the same, or similar, could be organised for (PLT) Scheme
> at ICFP 2009, which will be in Edinburgh?  There are two issues here:
>
> 1. Are there enough people interested? (I think about 10 would be
> enough, 20 would be great)  If you're interested, let me know.
>
> 2. Would it be worthwhile to run tutorial sessions?  I get the
> impression many people don't know how to develop efficiently using PLT
> Scheme.  E.g. how to use PLaneT development links, how to package code
> for release, how to test, how to use Scribble.  Stuff like Typed
> Scheme would also be worth presenting tutorials on.  If you'd be
> interested in tutorials, please let me know what kind.
>
> A quick note for Scheme UK people:  Ewan Higgs has revived Scheme UK.
> A new Yahoo group has been started.  Please sign up at
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/schemeuk/ if you have not done so
> already.
>
> Cheers,
> Noel
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