AngloHaskell/2010

AngloHaskell 2010 is taking place on the 10th and 11th of September in Cambridge, UK (yes, tradition has been broken and month has changed!). It's free, and everyone is invited! Simply add your name to the wiki and we'll see you there.

Organisational contact: Derek Wright

Dates and Venues

Date	Venue
Friday 10th September	Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Saturday 11th September	A less formal venue (to be organised, any suggestions?)

Attendees

Per last year, all attendees should bring or make a nametag that identifies you by your real name and/or IRC name. If anyone wants to drag a roll of stickers and a pen along that'll help!

If you can't make the start on Friday, or can only make it on Saturday, that's fine. If you're not sure where everyone's going to be, give one of the contacts a call or a text.

Definite

• Derek Wright (Fri + Sat)
• Graeme Burnett (Fri + Sat)
• Neil Mitchell (hopefully Fri, definite Sat)
• Sam Martin (Fri but not Sat)
• Eric Kow (Fri + Sat)
• Richard Smith (Fri only)
• Add your name here

Possible

• Claude Heiland-Allen
• Joshua Lee Tucker
• Ben May
• Alex McLean (hopefully Fri, can't do Sat)
• Magnus Therning
• Richard Fergie (just Friday)
• Benedict Eastaugh
• Max Bolingbroke
• Roland Swingler
• Add your name here

Lodging

It's likely that there'll be people in need of crashspace and so forth, so please organise here! Both offers and requests are good.

Hostels

Details coming soon...

Programme

Planning will be taking place on IRC as per previous years: #anglohaskell on irc.freenode.net

If you're having trouble following things on IRC, the discussion page on the wiki might be a good place to leave comments and questions.

In previous years we had talks in the day on a Friday, followed by pubbage in the evening and assorted activities on the Saturday. This seemed to work, so we'll follow a similar model this year.

Timetable

This is somewhat preliminary and subject to change as talks are confirmed or otherwise, but the overall structure should hold:

Day	Time	Event
Friday or Saturday	10am	People start arriving
	10:30 am	Tea, coffee and biscuits
	11am	Talks
	1pm	Lunch
	2pm	More talks
	3:30pm	Tea, coffee and biscuits
	4pm	Remaining talks
	4:??pm	Functional Grit - small talks that may grow into functional pearls. Open session, anyone can give a quick talk!
	When people get hungry or the venue kicks us out	Food! Likely we'll head out for a curry
	Beer o'Clock	When everyone's finished eating, we'll head for a nearby pub
2nd Day	To be confirmed

Talks

Volunteers please! Previously we have had a largely more practical set of talks than you might find at Fun in the Afternoon or an academic event. This was a good thing, and some of the best talks were from people who were far from considering themselves as experts, so feel free to tell us about your experiences.

Talks planned and/or offered:

• Claude Heiland-Allen - "mandulia: A zooming visualisation of the Mandelbrot Set as many Julia Sets"
• Alex McLean - "tidal - live coding patterns with Haskell"
• Add your name here - Add your title here

Abstracts

People giving talks should add these as they have them :-)

• mandulia: A zooming visualisation of the Mandelbrot Set as many Julia Sets

Mandulia provides a zooming visualisation of the Mandelbrot Set as many Julia Sets. Featuring a profiled and optimized renderer, and a Lua configuration and scripting interface.

• Title here

abstract goes here

Functional Grit

In previous years there has been a successful 'functional grit' section. Usually an informal session for people to briefly talk/demo works in progress, no need to pre-register, just turn up and talk. Think small stones that might turn into functional pearls. If there's time it'd be great to do again this year.

Other activity

After Friday's talks, food and drink would be a good idea! Curry is traditional and probably the default, but we're open to other suggestions. After that, we'll retreat to a pub for the evening.

Derek Wright