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The 2007 Haskell Hackathon, Hac 07

Oxford, Jan 10-12, 2007

Following the success of the GHC Hackathon at ICFP, we are pleased to announce that the inaugural Haskell Hackathon! The event will be held over 3 days, January 10-12 2007, at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, in the UK.

The plan is to hack on Haskell

infrastructure, tools, libraries and compilers. To attend please register, and get ready to hack those lambdas!

Contents 1 Registration 2 When 3 Where 4 Accomodation 5 Getting there 5.1 Oxford University Computing Laboratory 5.2 Oxford 5.3 Flying 6 What to bring 7 Before you arrive 8 What we will bring 9 What to hack on 10 Food 11 Key Dates 12 Organisers

1 Registration

If you will be attending add your name to the Registration page. Numbers may be limited, depending on availablity of space.

2 When

10-12 January, 2007

from 10am until the code stops typechecking

3 Where

Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

4 Accomodation

• http://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors/
• http://www.oxford.gov.uk/tourism/where-to-stay.cfm
• http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/venues.php?cat=hotel

5 Getting there

5.1 Oxford University Computing Laboratory

• http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/about/directions.html

5.2 Oxford

• http://www.ox.ac.uk/aboutoxford/how.shtml
• http://www.oxford.gov.uk/tourism/how-to-get-to-oxford.cfm
• http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/guide/index.html

5.3 Flying

• London Heathrow (LHR) is the best airport.

6 What to bring

• Yourself
• Laptop, wireless card, ethernet cable
• Typechecker
• Lambdas
• Brain snacks

7 Before you arrive

• Install darcs
• Make sure you have an up to date Cabal
• Get a darcs GHC, Yhc, Hugs installed

8 What we will bring

• Wireless net access
• Wired net access
• Room to hack
• Power points

9 What to hack on

• porting libraries
• new library/tool releases
• compiler ports: want to get YHC running on your favourite machine?
• new tools
• infrastructure hacking: cabal, hackage
• documentation
• tutorials
• bug squashing
• feature implementations (walk the Trac list)

Scheduling is flexible, feel free to drop in any time during the 3 days.

10 Food

Arranged locally.

11 Key Dates

         January 2007

    Su Mo Tu We Th Fr  Sa
        1  2  3  4  5   6
     7  8  9[10 11 12] 13 
    14 15 16 17 18 19  20
    21 22 23 24 25 26  27
    28 29 30 31

• HaC07 Oxford January 10-12, 2007

Related events:

• PADL, Nice/France, January 14-15 2007
• DAMP, Nice/France, January 16
• TLDI, Nice/France, January 16
• POPL, Nice/France, January 17-19 2007

12 Organisers

• Duncan Coutts
• Ian Lynagh
• Don Stewart

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