BayHac2013

San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley Haskell Hackathon

Come join a group of Haskell hackers to work on a wide variety of projects. All levels welcome.

Special thanks to Google for sponsoring BayHac '13, and providing lunch on Saturday!

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When:	Friday, May 17th – Sunday, May 19th, 2013
Where:	Hacker Dojo - note the Dojo has moved
Cost:	Free
Sign up:	sign-up form
News and Discussion:	BayHac Google Group

Location

Hacker Dojo, 599 Fairchild Drive, Mountain View, CA (Google Map)

Schedule

Anticipated, but subject to group whim and circumstance:

Friday, May 17th	3pm - 7pm	Meet-n-Greet-n-Hack
Saturday, May 18th	10am ~ 7pm	Hacking all day
	1pm - 2pm	Lunch, sponsored by Google
	2pm - 5pm	Code Kata (purely optional)
	6pm - 7pm	Lightning Talks
Sunday, May 19th	10am - 4pm	Hacking
	1pm - 2pm	Lunch
	2pm - 3pm	Lightning Talks
	3pm - 4pm	Good-Byes, Clean up, Go get beer!

Code Kata

Code Katas are programming exercises with the aim of just practicing the skill of programming.

We'll have a Code Kata session at BayHac '13 on Saturday afternoon. There'll be a coding problem, and we'll break into groups or singles and tackle it in Haskell. The problem will expand as time progresses. After about two hours of coding, we'll re-group and do some quick reviews of the solutions people came up with and discuss the challenges and design trade-offs.

If you're interested in this activity, please let us know.

Attendees

If you're attending, please use the sign-up form to help the organizers plan. Add your name here if you want to let others know you're coming.

1. Mark Lentczner - organizer
2. Johan Tibell - organizer
3. David Banas - AMITool project lead
4. Dan Burton - Just another Haskeller
5. Conal Elliott
6. Erik de Castro Lopo
7. Gabriel Gonzalez
8. Aaron Culich

Projects

If you plan working on a project at the Hackathon, you can put it up here so other interested hackers can see what projects are afoot. If you don't have a project, look here and find one!

1. Plush - Mark L.
2. AMITool - David Banas
3. minxmod (a tiny concurrent modelchecker) - Eugene Kirpichov
4. Reduceron - Tommy Thorn
5. Compiling Haskell to circuits (netlists) via GHC Core. Or other means of getting familiar with the GHC API. - Conal
6. Cross-platform, OpenGL- and GHCi-friendly GUIs & graphics. - Conal
7. HsTools - continuous compilation with vim integration (and more to come?) - Karl Voelker

IRC channel

We'll be hanging out on #bayhac on FreeNode.