BayHac2018
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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
1 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.
2 Schedule
This year will be lighter on the talks, to allow more free time for hacking. We are still accepting proposals, though please note that at this point only a few more will be accepted: propose a talk.
2.1 Friday, April 27
(No talks on Friday)
- 6:00pm BayHac opens for the day
- 9:00pm BayHac closes for the day
2.2 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
- Gabriel Gonzalez: Dhall - Programmable configuration language
- 12:00pm Lunch
- 5:00pm BayHac closes for the day
2.3 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
- 12:00pm Lunch
- 5:00pm BayHac closes for the day
3 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
4 Sponsors
BayHac 2018 is very grateful to our pledged sponsors: