I just want to add my words on behalf of the silent majority. I think it is important to look for ways to empower people like Matthew Butterick who have contributed significantly to the community and done much to raise the profile of the Racket language. While his code contributions are evident, we should also bear in mind that there is much of value that cannot be parsed by the reader, and is not easy to evaluate. It takes a special sagacity to do the kind of community building that he has done, and I know I've been grateful to read some of his - relatively infrequent now - posts on this list in the past. It's heartening to see apologies from those involved. We all make mistakes, and apologies are not easy. I hope that those familiar will also, based on an honest appraisal of the facts and sincere reflection, take necessary steps to ensure that this kind of thing doesn't happen in the future. I hope and believe we can do more to help people feel welcome and encouraged, and in particular, I am sure I speak for many when I say that I hope that we can make it right with Matthew.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:07 PM Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@racket-lang.org> wrote: > We were saddened to read [Matthew Butterick's recent post]. Matthias > has written his own [apology] in response. > > For our part, some of us were present for the interaction between > Matthew Butterick and Matthias Felleisen and some of us learned about > it later. We did not intervene in the way that we should have, and we > are sorry. > > If you wish to offer your thoughts to the people named below, the > email address feedb...@racket-lang.org will reach us directly. > > Jay McCarthy > John Clements > Matthew Flatt > Robby Findler > Sam Tobin-Hochstadt > > [Matthew Butterick's recent post]: > > https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-i-no-longer-contribute-to-racket.html > [his own apology]: https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/Apology.html > > -- > 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/CAK%3DHD%2BZrg1dw%3Ds1HnO17hBU55x%2B%3D9XkEonLxNjwyi-gu1jrfcw%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- 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/CACQBWF%3DcZGXZzJDmca1wb%2BAOoCuDr6i5DRh4YnNmz5P17BY3Ww%40mail.gmail.com.
