BayHac2013
San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley Haskell Hackathon
Come join a group of Haskell hackers to work on a wide variety of projects. All levels welcome.
Special thanks to Google for sponsoring BayHac '13, and providing lunch on Saturday!
| When: | Friday, May 17th – Sunday, May 19th, 2013 |
| Where: | Hacker Dojo - note the Dojo has moved |
| Cost: | Free |
| News and Discussion: | BayHac Google Group |
Post-Event Survey: Please take this survey if you attended BayHac'13.
Location
Hacker Dojo, 599 Fairchild Drive, Mountain View, CA (Google Map)
Schedule
Anticipated, but subject to group whim and circumstance:
| Friday, May 17th | 3pm - 7pm | Meet-n-Greet-n-Hack |
| Saturday, May 18th | 10am ~ 7pm | Hacking all day |
| 1pm - 2pm | Lunch, sponsored by Google | |
| 2pm - 5pm | Code Kata (purely optional) | |
| 6pm - 7pm | Lightning Talks | |
| Sunday, May 19th | 10am - 4pm | Hacking |
| 1pm - 2pm | Lunch | |
| 2pm - 3pm | Lightning Talks | |
| 3pm - 4pm | Good-Byes, Clean up, Go get beer! |
Code Kata
Code Katas are programming exercises with the aim of just practicing the skill of programming.
We'll have a Code Kata session at BayHac '13 on Saturday afternoon. There'll be a coding problem, and we'll break into groups or singles and tackle it in Haskell. The problem will expand as time progresses. After about two hours of coding, we'll re-group and do some quick reviews of the solutions people came up with and discuss the challenges and design trade-offs.
Lightning Talks
| Saturday, 6pm | |
| Steve Severance | Exception Handling |
| Jonathan Fischoff | BNFC Meta |
| Kyle Butt | Art and Dan explained |
| Lev Walkin | Explaining Charts to Blind |
| Evan Laforge | Music Sequencer |
| Tikhon Jelvis | GreenArray Synthesis -- slides |
| Stephen Balaban | agda-mode |
| Eric Nedervold | FP to OOP and back |
| Conal Elliott | Denotative Programming -- notes |
| Sunday, 2pm | |
| Paul Rubin | Memoization benchmark |
| Gabriel Gonzalez | Protein Search Engine |
| Luis Casillas | Denotational OLAP |
| Steve Severance | Accelerate |
| Tikhon Jelvis | Algebras and Coalgebras -- slides |
| Jonathan Fischoff | MTL |
| Russel O'Connor | Prisms! |
| John Millikin | re2 bindings |
Attendees
If you're attending, please use the sign-up form to help the organizers plan. Add your name here if you want to let others know you're coming.
- Mark Lentczner - organizer
- Johan Tibell - organizer
- David Banas - AMITool project lead
- Dan Burton - Just another Haskeller
- Conal Elliott
- Erik de Castro Lopo
- Gabriel Gonzalez
- Aaron Culich
Projects
If you plan working on a project at the Hackathon, you can put it up here so other interested hackers can see what projects are afoot. If you don't have a project, look here and find one!
- Plush - Mark L.
- AMITool - David Banas
- minxmod (a tiny concurrent modelchecker) - Eugene Kirpichov
- Reduceron - Tommy Thorn
- Compiling Haskell to circuits (netlists) via GHC Core. Or other means of getting familiar with the GHC API. - Conal
- Cross-platform, OpenGL- and GHCi-friendly GUIs & graphics. - Conal
- HsTools - continuous compilation with vim integration (and more to come?) - Karl Voelker
IRC channel
We'll be hanging out on #bayhac on FreeNode.