BayHac2013

San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley Haskell Hackathon

Come join a group of Haskell hackers to work on a wide variety of projects. All levels welcome.

Special thanks to Google for sponsoring BayHac '13, and providing lunch on Saturday!

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When:	Friday, May 17th – Sunday, May 19th, 2013
Where:	Hacker Dojo - note the Dojo has moved
Cost:	Free
News and Discussion:	BayHac Google Group

Post-Event Survey: Please take this survey if you attended BayHac'13.

Location

Hacker Dojo, 599 Fairchild Drive, Mountain View, CA (Google Map)

Schedule

Anticipated, but subject to group whim and circumstance:

Friday, May 17th	3pm - 7pm	Meet-n-Greet-n-Hack
Saturday, May 18th	10am ~ 7pm	Hacking all day
	1pm - 2pm	Lunch, sponsored by Google
	2pm - 5pm	Code Kata (purely optional)
	6pm - 7pm	Lightning Talks
Sunday, May 19th	10am - 4pm	Hacking
	1pm - 2pm	Lunch
	2pm - 3pm	Lightning Talks
	3pm - 4pm	Good-Byes, Clean up, Go get beer!

Code Kata

Code Katas are programming exercises with the aim of just practicing the skill of programming.

We'll have a Code Kata session at BayHac '13 on Saturday afternoon. There'll be a coding problem, and we'll break into groups or singles and tackle it in Haskell. The problem will expand as time progresses. After about two hours of coding, we'll re-group and do some quick reviews of the solutions people came up with and discuss the challenges and design trade-offs.

1. Mark's repo

Lightning Talks

Saturday, 6pm
Steve Severance	Exception Handling
Jonathan Fischoff	BNFC Meta
Kyle Butt	Art and Dan explained
Lev Walkin	Explaining Charts to Blind
Evan Laforge	Music Sequencer
Tikhon Jelvis	GreenArray Synthesis -- slides
Stephen Balaban	agda-mode
Eric Nedervold	FP to OOP and back
Conal Elliott	Denotative Programming -- notes

Sunday, 2pm
Paul Rubin	Memoization benchmark
Gabriel Gonzalez	Protein Search Engine
Luis Casillas	Denotational OLAP
Steve Severance	Accelerate
Tikhon Jelvis	Algebras and Coalgebras -- slides
Jonathan Fischoff	MTL
Russel O'Connor	Prisms!
John Millikin	re2 bindings

Attendees

If you're attending, please use the sign-up form to help the organizers plan. Add your name here if you want to let others know you're coming.

1. Mark Lentczner - organizer
2. Johan Tibell - organizer
3. David Banas - AMITool project lead
4. Dan Burton - Just another Haskeller
5. Conal Elliott
6. Erik de Castro Lopo
7. Gabriel Gonzalez
8. Aaron Culich

Projects

If you plan working on a project at the Hackathon, you can put it up here so other interested hackers can see what projects are afoot. If you don't have a project, look here and find one!

1. Plush - Mark L.
2. AMITool - David Banas
3. minxmod (a tiny concurrent modelchecker) - Eugene Kirpichov
4. Reduceron - Tommy Thorn
5. Compiling Haskell to circuits (netlists) via GHC Core. Or other means of getting familiar with the GHC API. - Conal
6. Cross-platform, OpenGL- and GHCi-friendly GUIs & graphics. - Conal
7. HsTools - continuous compilation with vim integration (and more to come?) - Karl Voelker

IRC channel

We'll be hanging out on #bayhac on FreeNode.