Boston Area Haskell Users' Group

Purpose and Goals

The purpose of Boston Haskell is to provide a regular forum in which area people interested in Haskell can get together, meet each other, share skills, and grow the community

Join the meetup group for even more entertainment! In particular, it is the most reliable source for meeting announcements and is where meeting-related polls (time, location, topics, etc.) are sent.

Next Meeting

We usually meet at thoughtbot.

Other Events

Once a year or so, we try to organize a hackathon, HacBOS.

Meeting Format

The Haskell Users' Group is not a forum for academic talks. The Boston area already provides plenty of opportunities for academics to give talks. The Haskell Users' Group is a forum for informal interactions and a place where you can show us the code.

The ideal meeting will include two presentations and a break:

• A presentation of code that even a beginner will appreciate
• A break (which may also include Lightning Talks or other advertisements of interest)
• A presentation of code that will make at least some experts say Ooh! and Aah!

Demos are also encouraged, but we want to see at least a little bit of code, please.

Planned schedule

Based on feedback fron the June 2009 meeting, we've switched to a monthly schedule. We aim for a meeting on the third Wednesday of every month.

Call for volunteers

We need volunteers

• To present
• To twist other people's arms to present
• To provide refreshments at meetings
• To help with general organizational matters (advertising meetings, etc.).

If you want to volunteer, please join the BostonHaskell mailing list and let us know what you're volunteering to do!

At some point we may be lucky enough to have a surplus of potential presenters. In that case we may need volunteers for a selection committee. A reasonable structure might be to have a committee of three who serve staggered six-month terms. If we can't find enough presenters, those same people could try to find some. In both cases people would be volunteering to help manage the program for three meetings.