From nominolo at googlemail.com  Sun Apr  6 19:15:44 2008
From: nominolo at googlemail.com (Thomas Schilling)
Date: Sun Apr  6 19:11:37 2008
Subject: [Hackathon] REMINDER: Next Hackathon (Hac4) starts in 4 days
Message-ID: <405BB5B0-08E4-4A3A-8061-E680B0D045C3@googlemail.com>

Hi Haskell Hackers!

There are only 4 days left until the fourth Hackathon (http:// 
www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac4) at Chalmers University in  
Gothenburg, Sweden.

If you haven't registered, yet, please do so now!

     Registration deadline:  Tuesday, April 8, 2008

To register, go to http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac4/Register  
and follow the steps.

For all those already registered, here's a short (not nearly  
complete) checklist:

* Make sure you have an account on code.haskell.org.  (See http:// 
www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac4/Projects for how to do that.)

* Decide what to work on if you haven't yet.  (See http:// 
www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac4/Projects for ideas.)

* Make sure your laptop is working and that you take all required  
extra equipment.  (If your wireless driver sucks, we can probably  
find some cables and a switch here.)

* It would be good to have all the code you want to work on already  
on your computer.  Also make sure it builds with your compiler  
version.  If your distro doesn't have binaries, maybe install some  
software in advance, like Gobby or profiled versions of GHC, newest  
version of gtk2hs or whatever seems appropriate.  It would just be a  
shame to waste hours of precious hacking time.

* Make a backup.  Just in case. ;)

* Many hostels want a confirmation a few days before arrival, don't  
forget.

* If you need some phone numbers of locals, check the wiki site, if  
you need some more help from us locals, you can ask us at our IRC  
channel #haskell-hac4.


We're looking forward to a fun weekend!

/ The Hac4 Team

From nominolo at googlemail.com  Wed Apr  9 08:13:02 2008
From: nominolo at googlemail.com (Thomas Schilling)
Date: Wed Apr  9 08:08:51 2008
Subject: [Hackathon] Preliminary Program
Message-ID: <30D38363-7225-46F9-8308-903884ECD2EF@googlemail.com>

Hello fellow Hackers,

the Wiki page now shows our preliminary program:

     http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac4/Program

We will start hacking at on Friday, 10:00 at Caf? Linsen in the  
Computer Science and Engineering building.

For those not from Chalmers, Caf? Linsen is in the center of the  
computer science and electronic engineering building.  The main  
entrance is marked on this map:

   http://tinyurl.com/3nsgvr

There's another entrance through the courtyard, also on the east side  
of the building and another one in the north of the building.  If you  
ask for "Caf? Linsen", "EDIT building", or "Computer Science  
building", people will probably be able to show you the way.  Outside  
of the Chalmers campus, just ask for Chalmers.

In the unlikely case that you get lost anyways, you can always call  
us.  (Our phone numbers are on the wiki.)

On saturday, only students and employees can enter the building and  
only employees can access the Computer Science and Engineering lunch  
room.  Therefore, if you are arriving on Friday, make sure you get in  
touch with someone who attended on Friday, to find out how to get in.

So far.

We are looking forward to a fun weekend!

/ Your Hac4 Team