BayHac2017/hopes

Here's how Haskellers responded to the following question in the Call for Participation survey.

"What do you hope BayHac 2017 will be like?"

• Awesome.
• Low-key, with plenty of time and space for ad hoc collaborations. Presentations to small audiences. More hackathon than conference.
• I will be happy any way it turns out but I would prefer pizza and swag.
• No idea! I've never been to a Haskell conference before. I prefer conferences (with organized talks) to hackathons, so maybe BayHac isn't for me.
• I'd like to sit with other Haskell/Emacs users and learn there programming environment. I like to sit with proficient Haskellers and walk through their code and my code. I hope it will be friendly and inviting.
• Great talks mixed with hacking on cool stuff. Hoping the hacking bit will be more organized than last time.
• Friendly for a beginner. I want to learn Haskell badly and use it in prod at my firm for web dev yet seem to get left behind after being taught the basics. I hope BayHac and the Haskell community more broadly would help me take my Haskell to the next level.
• I'd like opportunities to talk to other Haskellers about Haskell programming in general.
• A place to code with fellow haskellers, improve the community/projects and learn new stuff.
• Mind expanding
• A learning experience
• Not ten talks about FRP
• Tooling. Haskell in production.
• Hacking on Haskell together!
• Awesome lectures and awesome projects, with new and interesting people.
• productive
• I don't know, this would be my first time
• "Suggestion: evening "Poster Sessions" where people can meet and greet and look at cool things people are doing. Would require a bunch of lightweight easels for display (better than walls because it keeps people on one poster and does not interrupt flow). Refreshments if budget allows.
• Past attempts at lectures on Category Theory and other "abstract concepts" have not struck me as successful - too little time, too much learning required. More hands-on, tooling, and experiential stuff has been great. Example: I and others greatly enjoyed the "Code Kata" session that Mark Lentczner ran back in BayHac '13.
• It would be great if some kind of event or track could push the diversity past the <5% level... maybe canvas for ideas? Would also be interested in the experience of educators, at the grade school and high school levels.
• I hope it will be a place for me to meet more Haskell developers, learn new things, and get to work on at least one cool project.
• Learn how other people work, learn how to solve performance problems, help others with the same things.
• A chance to socialize with functional programmers and see what companies are using or are interested in using Haskell.
• Friendly, projects-oriented, with some talks
• I hope to get a sense for what the community finds to be interesting / important these days.
• A way to network with Haskell users
• Bayhac 2014 was the best one. Good diverse food. Well organized speaking tracks. Plenty of space for just hacking.
• Fun, relaxed mini-conference
• Place to learn and practice Haskell
• Something to get more people interested in Haskell
• Welcoming to beginners, chance to write code, examples of real world usage. Discussions and examples of testing!
• More presentations about workflows for Haskell in production - tooling during development, deploy processes / tooling, backend / frontend interaction.
• A hackathon style event with a few workshops/talks
• Meeting of hacker programmers.
• Good place to meet others who enjoy Haskell.
• Lots of hacking, examples of successful haskell use in industry
• fun
• lots of opportunity for mentoring (giving and receiving) and exploration