Difference between revisions of "Ghent Functional Programming Group"

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The "Functional Programming Group Ghent" (GhentFPG) is just starting up. We'll have a next meeting at June 29. The full program can be found online.

Stay informed

For up-to-date information, join our google group (this is like a mailing list)

http://groups.google.com/group/ghent-fpg

Or follow us on Twitter

http://twitter.com/ghentfpg

And we can also be reached on IRC using the #ghentfpg channel on freenode.

Hackathon

We are organizing a Hackathon from November 5 to November 7, 2010. More information can be found on this page.

Meeting information

Hackathon Meeting

The fifth meeting will be held during the Haskell Hackathon, but this does not mean that talks/topics discussed during the meeting should be restricted to Haskell, obviously. The precise date and time will be announced later.

October 7 2010 Meeting

Our fourth meeting will be held on October 7, 2010, from 19:00 onward. Same location as the previous meetings: Ghent University Technicum, St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Left Entrance. The program is as follows:

Stijn Timbermont - Mapping Interpreters onto Runtime Support
Tom Schrijvers - Dictionaries: Eager or Lazy Type Class Witnesses?
Dominique Devriese - Grammar Combinators - A new model for shallow parser DSL's

Abstracts of the talks can be found in this google groups message.

June 29 2010 Meeting

Our third meeting will be on June 29, 2010. This is again in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, left entrance. The program will be as follows:

Pierre Carbonnelle - Declarative programming for Business Logic - a new Open-source project
Tom Schrijvers - Monadic Constraint Programming
Wouter Kampmann, Lieven Lemiengre - Lightning Talk on Scala

Abstracts of the talks can be found in this google groups message.

May 13 2010 Meeting

Our second meeting was on May 13, 2010 in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:

Atze Dijkstra: The Utrecht Haskell Compiler
Jean-Christophe Mincke: An Introduction To Monads
Drinks at a local bar

April 1 2010 Meeting (First Meeting)

Our first meeting was on April 1, 2010. This was in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:

Jeroen Janssen - Welcome and short introduction to FP
Jasper Van der Jeugt - "BlazeHtml: a blazingly fast Html generator in Haskell"
Tom Schrijvers - "Functional Pearl: The Monad Zipper"
Romain Slootmaekers - "Functional Programming at Amplidata : a tentative experience report"
Anonymous - "An introduction to PHunctional Programming"
Short discussion on the direction of the Ghent Functional Programming Group

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 ;And we can also be reached on IRC using the #ghentfpg channel on freenode.:
-==Hackaton==
+==Hackathon==
-We are organizing a Hackaton from November 5 to November 7, 2010. More information can be found [[/BelHac|on this page]].
+We are organizing a Hackathon from November 5 to November 7, 2010. More information can be found [[/BelHac|on this page]].
 ==Meeting information==
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 The fifth meeting will be held during the Haskell Hackathon, but this does not mean that talks/topics discussed during the meeting should be restricted to Haskell, obviously. The precise date and time will be announced later.
-===October 7 Meeting===
+===October 7 2010 Meeting===
-Our fourth meeting will be held on October 7, 2010, from 19:00 onward. Same location as the previous meetings: Ghent University Technicum, St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Left Entrance. The program will be announced when it's ready.
+Our fourth meeting will be held on October 7, 2010, from 19:00 onward. Same location as the previous meetings: Ghent University Technicum, St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Left Entrance. The program is as follows:
+* Stijn Timbermont - Mapping Interpreters onto Runtime Support
-===June 29 Meeting===
+* Tom Schrijvers - Dictionaries: Eager or Lazy Type Class Witnesses?
+* Dominique Devriese - Grammar Combinators - A new model for shallow parser DSL's
+Abstracts of the talks can be found in [http://groups.google.com/group/ghent-fpg/browse_thread/thread/f307dadf62cc2796 this google groups message].
+===June 29 2010 Meeting===
 Our third meeting will be on June 29, 2010. This is again in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, left entrance. The program will be as follows:
 * Pierre Carbonnelle - Declarative programming for Business Logic - a new Open-source project
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 Abstracts of the talks can be found in [http://groups.google.com/group/ghent-fpg/browse_thread/thread/65cb728ac9cf17b1 this google groups message].
-===May 13 Meeting===
+===May 13 2010 Meeting===
 Our second meeting was on May 13, 2010 in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat+41,+Ghent&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.946508,106.435547&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat+41,+Gent+9000+Gent,+Oost-Vlaanderen,+Vlaams+Gewest,+Belgium&ll=51.046365,3.727316&spn=0.005801,0.012993&z=17 Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41], starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:
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 * Drinks at a local bar
-=== April 1 Meeting (First Meeting) ===
+=== April 1 2010 Meeting (First Meeting) ===
 Our first meeting was on April 1, 2010. This was in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat+41,+Ghent&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.946508,106.435547&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat+41,+Gent+9000+Gent,+Oost-Vlaanderen,+Vlaams+Gewest,+Belgium&ll=51.046365,3.727316&spn=0.005801,0.012993&z=17 Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41], starting at 19:00. The program was as follows: