ZuriHac2015

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When:	Friday 29th of May 2015 - Sunday 31st of May 2015
Where:	Google, Zurich, Switzerland

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Talks by Edward Kmett and Duncan Coutts

Important:
Switzerland has its own power sockets. We can't provide converters for everybody so make sure to bring one along. Do note that the Europlug will fit in a Swiss power socket.

 

About

On the last weekend of May 2015, the Haskell Meetup group will organize ZuriHac 2015, a three day Haskell Hackathon hosted at the Google offices.

This is the fourth Haskell Hackathon in Zurich. The previous three were ZuriHac2014, ZuriHac2013, and ZuriHac2010.

The Haskell Hackathon is an international, grassroots collaborative coding festival with a simple focus: build and improve Haskell libraries, tools, and infrastructure.

This is a great opportunity to meet your fellow Haskellers in real life, find new contributors for your project, improve existing libraries and tools or even start new ones!

This year, we want to have a special focus on beginners. During the whole event there will be beginners' mentors on site who you can directly approach at any time with any Haskell-related question you might have. Also, we will be having introductory talks for beginners, focusing on conveying experience that cannot simply be gathered by reading books or blog posts.

Sponsors

Google Switzerland hosts the Hackathon.

News

10th of February 15

Added wiki page

4th of March 15

Registration is open

6th of March 15

Duncan Coutts confirmed as second invited speaker; swapping days with Edward.

Registration

We have reached our maximum capacity. If you want to be queued into the wait list please still fill out this form: http://goo.gl/forms/L24NgFRvCw

If somebody cancels, we will fill up the seats from the wait list in first come first serve order. Please don't book anything before we have confirmed a seat for you.

Attendees

Here is the list of participants who have signed up for ZuriHac 2015 and have chosen their name to be listed there.

And here is the distribution of the expertise level of all of the participants:

Beginner	Advanced	Expert
50	49	19

43 participants offered to be a beginners' mentor for half a day (thank you!).

Location

Zurich, Switzerland

Here is a map with map with all important locations.

To learn more about the city, please see the Wikipedia and Wikitravel articles.

See here for public transport in the Zurich area.

A note on day tickets:

Day tickets in Zurich run for 24 hours and can be used on all forms of transport, bus, train, tram.

If you arrive via airplane, please note that the airport is outside of the zone 10, which only covers the city of Zurich itself. Since zone 10 counts double, you will need a ticket for 3 zones then.

You can buy tickets from the ticket machines.

Accommodation

We recommend the following accommodation options:

• http://www.langstars.com/en/ Youthhostel, CHF 50 per night.

• https://www.airbnb.com/ Airbnb, variable.

• Hotel Neufeld, http://www.hotel-neufeld.ch/.

Schedule

Please note, the schedule is still tentative.

	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
9am	doors open	doors open	doors open
10am	opening ceremony & projects intro (*1)
11am	beginners' talk (*4)	beginners' talk (*4)	beginners' talk (*4)
12pm	lunch snacks (*3)	lunch snacks (*3)	lunch snacks (*3)
1pm
2pm	beginners' talk (*4)	beginners' talk (*4)	project summaries (*1)
3pm
4pm	invited talk: Duncan Coutts	invited talk: Edward Kmett
5pm
6pm	BBQ at the lake (*2)		doors close
7pm
8pm		doors close

Notes

(*1) If you are hosting a project, please be there to both introduce it and give a summary afterwards. Also, please add your project to the projects page.

(*2) Only if the weather permits it. Saturday same time will be the auxiliary date.

(*3) We will provide sandwiches or similar snacks for you. Because of limited budget we cannot serve a real lunch meal. Of course you can go to a local grocery shop and bring food and drinks with you.

(*4) Depending on whether we can find enough volunteers and topics, some of those talks might not happen. Also, those talks will happen in a separate area, so if you don't want to attend you won't be disturbed.

Projects

See the projects page.

Communication

If you have any questions before the event, please reach out to Alexander Bernauer <acopton@gmail.com>. If you are a confirmed participant, you will receive update emails from Alex as well.

Before the event, and in particular during the event, you can find us and other participants on irc://freenode.net/#zurihac. In addition, feel free to post on Twitter and Google+ using the hashtag #zurihac.

Organizers

The events are organized in name of the Zurich Haskell meetup group by the following people:

• Gleb Peregud (Google)
• Alexander Bernauer (Google)
• Johan Tibell (Google)
• Simon Meier (IBM Research)