The Clojure community has a long and friendly relationship with our cousins in the Racket/Scheme community and we’ve often had speakers at Clojure conference from that world. I wanted to call your attention to the recent Strange Loop keynote from Will Byrd, "Strange Dreams of Stranger Loops" which takes his prior investigations into generating quines (programs that produce themselves) with miniKanren into further territories of twines (twin quines) and quine relays and many other interesting digressions.

Near the end of the talk, Will announced two "competitions", each for $1000, the QuiPS Prize for the best "small" strange loop along the order of quines and quine relays, self-reproducing behavior, and the Mant Prize - for the best "large" strange loop, and you’ll need to watch the video to get the full sense of the intent here. I’ve linked his pages for these prizes, which are as yet unpublished. Feel free to pester Will to fill those out more completely. :)

I’m highlighting these here both to give them some more circulation and because I think there are many smart and curious minds in the Clojure community that would enjoy working on things like this to spur the Quine Industrial Complex.