Boston Area Haskell Users' Group
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!
Next Meeting
The next meeting of the Boston Area Haskell User's Group will start at 6:30pm on June 23rd at MIT. See the announcement on the BostonHaskell mailing list for the full details.
The two talks will be:
- "Automagic Font Conversion with Haskell Typeclasses" by Frank Berthold
- "Intermediate Language Representations via GADTs" by Nirav Dave
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
- 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
The group is intended to launch in January 2009 with a schedule of six meetings per year. 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 host one of the regular meetings
- To present
- To twist other people's arms to present
- To provide refreshments at meetings
- To talk to John Hughes and learn how to organize a "jobs fair" for the November meeting
If you want to volunteer, please visit the volunteers' page
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.