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= Haskell User Group Starter Kit =

Want to start a Haskell User Group?  These resources may help.  They are geared towards a non-academic crowd who probably does not know anything about Haskell or Functional Programming and have regular meetings to talk about Haskell or FP.  This page has a slightly different emphasis than a Haskell for Beginners one or a How to Learn Haskell page might. It specifically plays off the tendency for Haskell User Groups to have people with varying degrees of expertise/familiarity in Haskell.

== Topics and debates ==

Great topics to cover

* What is functional programming?
* Solving problems a functional way
* Practical Haskell - IO, etc
* Laziness
* Typeclasses
* Monads (save for later)

== Coding Dojo ==

Best exercises for a Haskell coding Dojo

* Project Euler 1 is great for comparing languages - there's no such thing as "too" simple

== Papers ==

Must-read academic papers for a non-academic non-FP crowd.  Good Functional Pearls might also be nice here.

# Why Functional Programming Matters
# Tackling the Awkward Squad
# Composing Contracts
# Beautiful Concurrency

== User group tips and tricks ==

Most likely external links to non-Haskell-specific sites

* Consider GitHub as a place to put your code samples and talks.  GitHub allows for organisation repositories, eg the [https://github.com/organizations/functionalbrighton Functional Brighton] one
* When trying to demonstrate techniques/technologies, don't be afraid of making your examples “too trivial”.  Err on the side of simple.

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