Hac5

Hac5: Haskell Hackathon

April 17-19 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands

More information will follow soon.

Overview

• What we're working on

• Register for the Hackathon

• Attendees organising page

News

• Date picked.

Registration

If you will be attending, please register. Numbers may be limited, depending on availablity of space or other resources.

Location

The building's facade

Utrecht University, Buys Ballot Laboratorium (BBL)

Getting there

Air

• Schiphol

  Schiphol Airport (AMS) is the main airport of the Netherlands. There is a train station right underneath the airport, and every 15min there is a direct train to Utrecht.

• Eindhoven

  The airport in Eindhoven (EIN) is cheaper than Schiphol, so many low-cost airlines fly there. There is a bus terminal outside the airport which will take you to Eindhoven station.

Train

• International trains (UK, France, Belgium, Germany)

• National trains
  • General information

    NS is the main public transport railway company in the Netherlands. You can buy tickets on machines at the station (you can also practice this online). Maestro Debit cards are usually accepted and credit cards should work too, but in practice I've seen many people having trouble with this.

    If you pay with cash you have to go the counter, where you'll be charged extra for the ticket.

    
    

  • From Schiphol, trains depart to Utrecht every 15min. The ticket price is €7,80 (second class, full-fare, one-way). The trip takes about 30min.

    
    

  • From Eindhoven Airport, first you have to take bus 401 to Eindhoven station. There is a ticket machine inside the bus but you will need (Euro) coins to pay. Then from Eindhoven station you can take the train to Utrecht. There are trains every 15min to Utrecht Centraal. The ticket price is €12,80 (second class, full-fare, one-way). The trip takes about 50min.

    
    

• Arriving at Utrecht Central

  Outside the train station in Utrecht is the main bus station. From there you can take buses number 11, 12 or 12S to the University. The trip takes about 20min and takes 3 'strippen'.

Sea

TODO

Local transportation

TODO

• Travelling by bus
• Strippenkaart

When

• April 17-19 2009

If sufficiently many participants are already around on April 16 or are still around on April 20, a small symposium and/or an excursion could be organized.

Preparations

What to bring

• A laptop
• Wireless card if necessary. There will be wireless network access. Ethernet access will probably not be available. If you really need ethernet access, please contact the organizers.
• Power adaptors if necessary. Power sockets in the Netherlands are (TODO)
• Mobile phone

Before you arrive

• Pick out a couple of projects to work on and familiarise yourself with them
• Install an up to date Haskell toolchain (preferrably ghc-6.10.1).

Projects to work on

Add ideas here for which you think hacking together as a group (rather than individually) would be beneficial. See also the more detailed projects page.

Group projects

• darcs sprint #2
• ...

Previous Haskell hackathons

• Hackathon page

• Hac 4 (2008)- Gothenburg
• Hac 2007 II - Freiburg
• Hac 2007 - Oxford
• Hac 2006 - Portland

Organization

Mailing list

hackathon@haskell.org

IRC channel

Visit

 #haskell-hac5

in Freenode.

Organisers

The organisers for the Hackathon are:

• Andres Loeh
• José Pedro Magalhães
• Sean Leather
• Eelco Lempsink
• Chris Eidhof
• more