Difference between revisions of "Boston Area Haskell Users' Group"

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Purpose and Goals

The purpose of the Boston Area Haskell Users' Group is to provide a regular forum in which area people interested in Haskell can get together, meet each other, share skills, and grow the community

Join the mailing list for even more entertainment! In particular, it is the most reliable source for meeting announcements and is where meeting-related polls (time, location, topics, etc.) are sent.

Next Meeting

The next meeting of the Boston Area Haskell User's Group is 7pm - 9pm on September 16th at MIT.

Our featured speaker will be Edward Kmett, who will be sharing the second part of his presentation on monoids and parsing.

His talk is titled: "A Parallel Parsing Trifecta: Iteratees, Parsec, and Monoids" by Edward Kmett

We're also planning to try a joint programming exercise (suggestions on what to do welcome!) to have something more accessible to beginners.

Meeting Format

The Haskell Users' Group is not a forum for academic talks. The Boston area already provides plenty of opportunities for academics to give talks. The Haskell Users' Group is a forum for informal interactions and a place where you can show us the code.

The ideal meeting will include two presentations and a break:

A presentation of code that even a beginner will appreciate
A break (which may also include Lightning Talks or other advertisements of interest)
A presentation of code that will make at least some experts say Ooh! and Aah!

Demos are also encouraged, but we want to see at least a little bit of code, please.

Planned schedule

Based on feedback fron the June 2009 meeting, we've switched to a monthly schedule. The previous calendar (below) is being kept as a reference for external events that can impact scheduling.

The calendar is designed so that most meetings are scheduled at a time when people might have something new to show off.

A meeting in late January following POPL
A meeting at the end of March or the beginning of April, just after the ICFP deadline
A meeting in May after classes are out but before students and professors have dispersed for the summer
A meeting in July after the POPL deadline and perhaps just after the ICFP programming contest
A meeting in September following ICFP and the Haskell Symposium
A meeting in November with a special emphasis on companies who may wish to recruit interns or new employees

Call for volunteers

We need volunteers

To present
To twist other people's arms to present
To provide refreshments at meetings
To help with general organizational matters (advertising meetings, etc.).

If you want to volunteer, please join the BostonHaskell mailing list and let us know what you're volunteering to do!

At some point we may be lucky enough to have a surplus of potential presenters. In that case we may need volunteers for a selection committee. A reasonable structure might be to have a committee of three who serve staggered six-month terms. If we can't find enough presenters, those same people could try to find some. In both cases people would be volunteering to help manage the program for three meetings.

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 The purpose of the Boston Area Haskell Users' Group is to provide a regular forum in which area people interested in Haskell can get together, meet each other, share skills, and grow the community
-Join the [http://groups.google.com/group/bostonhaskell mailing list] for even more entertainment!
+Join the [http://groups.google.com/group/bostonhaskell mailing list] for even more entertainment! In particular, it is the most reliable source for meeting announcements and is where meeting-related polls (time, location, topics, etc.) are sent.
 == Next Meeting ==
-See '''http://groups.google.com/group/bostonhaskell''' for meeting announcements.  They sometimes occur only a few days before the meeting, and this haskellwiki page is not always updated.
 The
 [http://groups.google.com/group/bostonhaskell/browse_thread/thread/71243e7d2ec57300 next meeting]
-of the Boston Area Haskell User's Group was once
+of the Boston Area Haskell User's Group is 7pm - 9pm on September 16th at MIT.
-:30pm - 8:30pm
-on August 18
-at MIT.
-''We're making a slight departure from our meeting format this month.  Our featured speaker will be Edward Kmett, who will be sharing a two-part presentation focusing on monoids and parsing.''
+''Our featured speaker will be Edward Kmett, who will be sharing the second part of his presentation on monoids and parsing.''
+His talk is titled: "A Parallel Parsing Trifecta: Iteratees, Parsec, and Monoids" by Edward Kmett
-The two talks will be:
+We're also planning to try a joint programming exercise (suggestions on what to do welcome!) to have something more accessible to beginners.
-* "Introduction to Monoids" by Edward Kmett
-* "A Parallel Parsing Trifecta: Iteratees, Parsec, and Monoids" by Edward Kmett
 == Meeting Format ==
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 == Call for volunteers ==
 We need volunteers
-* To host one of the regular meetings
 * To present
 * To twist other people's arms to present
 * To provide refreshments at meetings
+* To help with general organizational matters (advertising meetings, etc.).
-* To talk to John Hughes and learn how to organize a "jobs fair" for the November meeting
-If you want to volunteer, please '''visit [[Boston Area Haskell Users' Group/Volunteers|the volunteers' page]]'''
+If you want to volunteer, please join the BostonHaskell mailing list and let us know what you're volunteering to do!
 At some point we may be lucky enough to have a surplus of potential presenters.  In that case we may need volunteers for a selection committee.  A reasonable structure might be to have a committee of three who serve staggered six-month terms.  If we can't find enough presenters, those same people could try to find some.  In both cases people would be volunteering to help manage the program for three meetings.