Another Racketeer here who's been in the community since day 0. We have various views and people in the community. But our commitment to making tools and learning available to all, open to all, and catering to all — what many of us label diversity — is, I hope, demonstrated by our actions.
Several of us work ceaselessly on Bootstrap, easily one of the most diverse computing offerings in the US. Our numbers are beyond what programs dream of. And yet we keep working on improving our diversity impact [https://www.bootstrapworld.org/impact/]. That means not only what most people consider — women and underrepresented minorities — but also other kinds of underrepresentation in computing: the visually-impaired, those with learning disabilities (new project just starting up), etc., etc. And Bootstrap is listed right on the box [https://racket-lang.org]. Other things we've done include pioneering free online texts. Matthias et al's HtDP was one of the first such books (especially prominent ones, from a prominent publisher). Why? Because reaching out across economic divides was infinitely more important that royalties. To this day, most prominent texts don't follow this policy. Yet HtDP proudly does, as do many other books we've written (like PLAI and PAPL). Mailing lists are not great places for nuance and differences of interpretation of words. (Twitter is even worse!) But many long-standing Racket folks care very deeply about what I believe others here refer to as diversity — perhaps even forms of it *not* initially intended, but hopefully also welcome — and have put $ and time where it matters. Shriram -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/e14413c8-9b79-45f9-8fd7-194070354cc2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
