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== Sharing your code ==

If you need a place to host a project so that others can help with it, we suggest 
[http://github.com github], but if you are using darcs [http://patch-tag.com/ patch-tag] is just dandy as well. 

You can also apply for an account on 
[http://community.haskell.org/admin/ the community server].

== Projects ==

If you have a project that you want to work on at the Hackathon, please describe it here.

Since Hackathons are great for teamwork, consider joining one of the projects mentioned below. If you're interested in one of these projects, add your name to the list of hackers under that project.

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=== Trifecta ===

[http://hackage.haskell.org/package/trifecta Trifecta] is a library for dealing with both parsing and the ancillary concerns that arise once you have a parser.

Interested in this project:

* Edward Kmett
* Doug McClean
* Paul Martel

=== Machine code analysis tools ===

Haskell could be a great platform for analyzing and reverse-engineering machine code.  We already have disassemblers ([http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hdis86 x86], [https://github.com/copumpkin/charm ARM]), object format parsers ([http://hackage.haskell.org/package/elf ELF], [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pecoff PE/COFF], [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/macho MachO]), SMT and [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sbv bitvector] solvers, [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hoopl dataflow analysis], etc.  Let's improve these tools and fill in the gaps.

Some concrete projects in this area:

* Write bindings to [http://radare.org/ radare]
* Finish up the [https://github.com/copumpkin/charm charm] disassembler for ARM, and get it on Hackage
* Modify [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/elf elf] to support parsing relocation records
* Add support to the object format libraries for writing data structures back out to disk
* Write a format-agnostic layer on top of the object format libraries

Interested in this project:

* Keegan McAllister
* Ben Gamari (ARM support in GHC linker)

=== G-code backend for Diagrams ===

[http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams Diagrams] is a nice library for declarative vector graphics.  With a [http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode_main.html G-code] backend, it could be used to control industrial cutting equipment.

We already have a [https://github.com/kmcallister/gcode G-code output library].   For this project we would need to render Diagrams constructs to the simpler G-code commands.

Interested in this project:

* Keegan McAllister
* Ben Gamari (relevant hack: https://github.com/bgamari/GGen)

=== Livecoding and Music ===

Haskell has libraries for livecoding and music composition. We need more tutorials and tools. Focus will be on [http://slavepianos.org/rd/ut/hsc3-texts/ hsc3] for [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/SuperCollider Supercollider].

Interested in this project:

* Tom Murphy (amindfv)

== Experience ==

Please list projects with which you are familiar. This way, people know whom to contact for more information or guidance on a particular project.

{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Projects
|-
| edwardk
| [http://github.com/ekmett lots of projects], mtl, general libraries
|-
| ezyang
| ghc
|-
| keegan
| [https://github.com/kmcallister various], some GHC internals, FFI tricks
|}