Hac 2007 II

Please add yourself to this list if you are potentially interested in being part of a Hackathon colocated with Haskell Workshop and ICFP 2007 (i.e. in Freiburg, Germany, around the end of September/beginning of October).

• Ian Lynagh (Igloo)
• Duncan Coutts (dcoutts)
• Malcolm Wallace (malcolmw)
• Don Stewart (dons)
• Lennart Kolmodin (kolmodin)
• Pepe Iborra (mnislaih)
• Simon Marlow (JaffaCake)
• Ben Lippmeier (benl23)
• David Himmelstrup (Lemmih)
• Björn Bringert (bringert)
• David Waern (waern)
• Rickard Nilsson (ricky)
• Tim Chevalier (Binkley) (not sure yet)
• Neil Mitchell (ndm) - I'll be at IFL, but may be able to meet up for a bit of hacking
• Andy Gill (andyjgill)

Please also include other information you think might be useful, e.g. how long you would like to spend at the Hackathon.

Dates

In terms of dates, IFL immediately preceedes HW, which immediately preceeds ICFP, so the best might be to go for the weekend Fri-Sun afterwards. This gives a days rest after a week's conferences, or CUFP for the diehards, on the Thursday.

An alternative might be to run the Hackathon in parallel with IFL (or ICFP), but this might result in some people who want to go not being able to make much of it.

Hopefully this table will help us pick a date. Please only use initials or something similarly small (and unique) to avoid the table becoming too wide.

Date	Other events	People who the day is bad for	Notes
Mon 24 Oct
Tue 25 Oct
Wed 26 Oct
Thu 27 Sep	IFL
Fri 28 Sep	IFL
Sat 29 Sep	IFL
Sun 30 Sep	HW	[too many people]
Mon 1 Oct	ICFP	[too many people]
Tue 2 Oct	ICFP	[too many people]
Wed 3 Oct	ICFP	[too many people]
Thu 4 Oct	CUFP	[too many people]
Fri 5 Oct	Erlang, ML		Almost certain to be these days
Sat 6 Oct			Almost certain to be these days
Sun 7 Oct			Almost certain to be these days
Mon 8 Oct

Stefan in Freiburg says:

The best solution for us is to have the hackathon directly after ICFP, i.e. Thu, Fri, and Sat. We could then integrate the hackathon into our summer campus so you get all the infrastructure (room, internet, coffee, food, beer, ...) you need. Sunday is problematic because university buildings are usually closed.

Potential topics for a group hack

Add ideas here for which you think hacking together as a group (rather than individually) would be beneficial.

• Building tests that give 100% code coverage for package base.
• Lots of Cabal hacking still to be done
• Bindings for <your favourite C library>
• Haskell library for <your favourite task>

Other things:

• bytestring 1.0
• bit layer on Data.Binary 1.0
• Data.ByteString.Parallel
• libxml
• bytestring parsec
• combine strictcheck and quickcheck once and for all

Previous Haskell hackathons

• Hac 2007 - Oxford
• Hac 2006 - Portland