BayHac2018

San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley Haskell Hackathon

Come join a group of Haskell hackers to enjoy a weekend of learning, sharing, and hacking on a variety of projects. Bring your laptop! All skill levels are welcome.

When:	Friday, April 27th – Sunday, April 29th, 2018
Where:	Formation (formerly Takt) office: 35 Stillman St, San Francisco
Cost:	Free
Registration:	BayHac 2018 Registration form
News and Discussion:	BayHac Google Group

This year's BayHac organizers are:

• Anthony Finch
• Chris Smith
• Dan Burton
• Erica Waichman
• Tikhon Jelvis

Projects

BayHac is all about the hacking! Add your project below to declare your intent to hack, and inform others on how they can join in.

• /CodeWorld: Educational computer programming environment using Haskell
• /hnix: A Haskell re-implementation of the Nix expression language
• /haddock: Your favourite Haskell documentation generation tool
• karya: A 2D music language, score editor, or sequencer in Haskell. There is also a synthesis backend, and a konnakol-based haskell DSL for writing rhythmic structures. Talk to me if interested, I should be around Friday and Sunday -- Evan Laforge (qdunkan@gmail.com)
• gelatin: A real-time 2D graphics API with multiple backends including OpenGL and WebGL.
• Lambency -- A game/rendering framework built using the arrowized FRP library netwire. I'll be trying to add a networking element within the FRP framework. E-mail me if you're interested in contributing!
• Kitten: A statically typed concatenative programming language. I’ll be working on refactoring the compilation pipeline and integrating a new typechecker, and could use input from people with experience working on developer tools. — Jon Purdy

Schedule

This year will be lighter on the talks, to allow more free time for hacking.

Friday, April 27

Drinks and snacks. (No talks on Friday)

• 6:00pm BayHac opens for the day
• 9:00pm BayHac closes for the day

Saturday, April 28

• 9:30am BayHac opens for the day
• 10:00am Talks
  • Judah Jacobson: Pier: yet another Haskell build system
  • Robin Bate Boerop: Using Haskell inside Apache Spark
  • Dmitriy Tadyshev: Simple Distributed Web Crawler with Cloud Haskell
  • Alexander Thiemann: SuperRecord: Anonymous Records in Haskell
  • Greg Pfiel: Qualified (not Quantified) Constraints: a fresh perspective on `newtype`
  • Gabriel Gonzalez: Dhall - Programmable configuration language
• 12:00pm Lunch
• 5:00pm BayHac closes for the day

Sunday, April 29

• 9:30am BayHac opens for the day
• 10:00am Talks
  • James Bowen: Haskell, Tensor Flow, and Dependent Types
  • Maximilian Tagher: Validation Across the Stack (Postgres, Haskell, and the frontend)
  • Travis Athougies: Beam for composable, type-safe database queries
  • Nick Pollard: Free objects (eg. Free applicatives, free monoids)
  • André van Meulebrouck: Intro to containers: functor, applicative, monad
  • Chris Smith: CodeWorld: Teaching Haskell to kids
• 12:00pm Lunch
• 5:00pm BayHac closes for the day

Is this a scam to steal my intellectual property?

BayHac is not that kind of hackathon; there is no competitive coding element here. It is only a "hackathon" in the sense that a group of Haskellers will gather to hack on various projects.

See our /Intellectual_Property_Policy

Sponsors

BayHac 2018 is very grateful to our pledged sponsors: