BayHac2017/hopes

Here's how Haskellers responded to the following question in the Call for Participation survey.

"What do you hope BayHac 2017 will be like?"

Awesome.
Low-key, with plenty of time and space for ad hoc collaborations. Presentations to small audiences. More hackathon than conference.
I will be happy any way it turns out but I would prefer pizza and swag.
No idea! I've never been to a Haskell conference before. I prefer conferences (with organized talks) to hackathons, so maybe BayHac isn't for me.
I'd like to sit with other Haskell/Emacs users and learn there programming environment. I like to sit with proficient Haskellers and walk through their code and my code. I hope it will be friendly and inviting.
Great talks mixed with hacking on cool stuff. Hoping the hacking bit will be more organized than last time.
Friendly for a beginner. I want to learn Haskell badly and use it in prod at my firm for web dev yet seem to get left behind after being taught the basics. I hope BayHac and the Haskell community more broadly would help me take my Haskell to the next level.
I'd like opportunities to talk to other Haskellers about Haskell programming in general.
A place to code with fellow haskellers, improve the community/projects and learn new stuff.
Mind expanding
A learning experience
Not ten talks about FRP
Tooling. Haskell in production.
Hacking on Haskell together!
Awesome lectures and awesome projects, with new and interesting people.
productive
I don't know, this would be my first time
"Suggestion: evening "Poster Sessions" where people can meet and greet and look at cool things people are doing. Would require a bunch of lightweight easels for display (better than walls because it keeps people on one poster and does not interrupt flow). Refreshments if budget allows.
Past attempts at lectures on Category Theory and other "abstract concepts" have not struck me as successful - too little time, too much learning required. More hands-on, tooling, and experiential stuff has been great. Example: I and others greatly enjoyed the "Code Kata" session that Mark Lentczner ran back in BayHac '13.
It would be great if some kind of event or track could push the diversity past the <5% level... maybe canvas for ideas? Would also be interested in the experience of educators, at the grade school and high school levels.
I hope it will be a place for me to meet more Haskell developers, learn new things, and get to work on at least one cool project.
Learn how other people work, learn how to solve performance problems, help others with the same things.
A chance to socialize with functional programmers and see what companies are using or are interested in using Haskell.
Friendly, projects-oriented, with some talks
I hope to get a sense for what the community finds to be interesting / important these days.
A way to network with Haskell users
Bayhac 2014 was the best one. Good diverse food. Well organized speaking tracks. Plenty of space for just hacking.
Fun, relaxed mini-conference
Place to learn and practice Haskell
Something to get more people interested in Haskell
Welcoming to beginners, chance to write code, examples of real world usage. Discussions and examples of testing!
More presentations about workflows for Haskell in production - tooling during development, deploy processes / tooling, backend / frontend interaction.
A hackathon style event with a few workshops/talks
Meeting of hacker programmers.
Good place to meet others who enjoy Haskell.
Lots of hacking, examples of successful haskell use in industry
fun
lots of opportunity for mentoring (giving and receiving) and exploration