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

• Preliminary program online.

• Free copy of RWH as a prize!

Registration

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

Location

Utrecht University

Getting there

Air

TODO

Train

TODO

Sea

TODO

Local transportation

TODO

When

TODO

Dates are not yet definitive. The plan is to run from Friday to Sunday sometime in April or May 2009. Dates have been narrowed down to

• April 17-19 (the weekend after easter)
• May 15-17

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 (and more!)