Hac 2007

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!

Registration

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

When

10-12 January, 2007

from 10am until the code stops typechecking

Where

Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

Accomodation

Getting there

Oxford University Computing Laboratory

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

Oxford

Flying

London Heathrow (LHR) is the best airport.

What to bring

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

Before you arrive

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

What we will bring

Wireless net access
Wired net access
Room to hack
Power points

What to hack on

A list of projects people want to work on. Add your list!

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.

Food

Arranged locally.

Key Dates

         January 2007

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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

Organisers

Duncan Coutts
Ian Lynagh
Don Stewart