AngloHaskell/2007

On June the 9th 2006, Microsoft Research sent out an advert for a job. This eventually led to AngloHaskell 2006, and much fun was had!

Doing it again in 2007 seems like a good idea, who's up for it?

Date and Venue

Confirmed! We're going with the 10th-11th of August in Cambridge, starting with talks at Microsoft Research and with more planning to happen below.

Many thanks to Matthew Sackman for offering us an alternative venue! Perhaps we can try it next year?

Yes, I'll still be at Imperial then so I can't see why not! MatthewSackman

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.

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!

Definite

Philippa Cowderoy

Possible

David Himmelstrup (Lemmih) - will put myself under definite once we have a time and place
Neil Mitchell
Ben Moseley
Alex McLean - very keen, can also confirm once more details are set. I would ~~much~~ prefer an independent or university venue rather than a 'big business' one
- MSR doesn't really feel 'big business' - it's more or less a uni venue. PhilippaCowderoy
- It's literally next door to the Cambridge University CompSci department. PMc
- Well, I'm not that worried about it - Alex
Ganesh Sittampalam
Peter McArthur - I live in Cambridge, so I was gutted that I couldn't make it last year. Cambridge or London are both good for me. :-)
Ian Lynagh
Edwin Brady
Claude Heiland-Allen - keen, definite (or not) depending on date/location
Titto (if it is in September)
Sebastian Sylvan - interested. It depends on the talks. I'm sure all the talks listed so far will be interesting, but if we can get one or two of the "big names" to give a talk, then it's a surefire guarantee that it'll be worth coming for, and then other talks would be icing on the cake! Personally I'm very interested in the concurrency/parallelism stuff that's going on currently (so if anyone reading this has something to say on that, sign up!). Also, might be worhtwhile to synchronise it with a bank holiday so people don't have to take a day off?
Lennart Augustsson - I can probably make August 10-11, otherwise early September.
Matthew Sackman - it's unlikely I won't be there.
Ben Lippmeier - If it's at MSR then I'm already there.
Duncan Coutts - The 10th-11th of August would be perfect for me.
Andy Gimblett

Programme

Planning will be taking place on IRC as per last year: #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.

Last year 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.

Talks

It wouldn't be AngloHaskell without some talks, so volunteers please! Last year we 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.

When we have a venue confirmed, we can also put up details of the equipment available for speakers.

Philippa Cowderoy can give one of a number of talks, will pick one as time goes on
Neil Mitchell - making Yhc faster than GHC
Alex McLean - something related to improvising live music with Haskell
Claude Heiland-Allen - maybe something on embedding Haskell inside the multimedia software Pure-data
Lennart Augustsson - I could have my arm twisted enough to give a talk.
Ben Lippmeier - effect inference and optimisation, like at SAPLING

Other activity

After Friday's talks, food and drink would be a good idea!

At a pinch we can organise Saturday on the Friday again - last year we met up in a Wetherspoons for brunch, went punting and then hit a pub for dinner and chat. Something similar should be fun - ultimately the aim's to relax, talk and have space to code when people inevitable get their laptops out.

I'd like it if we can eat at a restaurant before finding a pub for the evening on friday. Borrowing Fun in the Afternoon's post-talks curry works if nobody's got any other suggestions - PhilippaCowderoy

Wiki organisation

This isn't really a major point, but: it seems to me that keeping about the pages used to organise previous events is a good idea as things go on, and that this page should be used both to link to the archives and contain the current discussion. Anyone take issue with this?