<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 24 Jul 2010, at 02:15, Tim Matthews wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Any of the haskellers here from NZ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div>I am in Wellington, Stephen is near Palmerston North. There are a few others elsewhere I think.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">Are you using haskell in production, internally within your company or just outside of work in your own time?<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></blockquote><div><br></div>I work on Leksah in my spare time.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">In Aus they've got <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/AusHac2010">hackathons</a> and <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/User_groups#Australia">user groups</a>. Anything even remotely similar here in New Zealand?<br></blockquote></div><br><div>The last couple of times I have visited my parents in (who live in Palmerston North), Stephen and I have got together for what we jokingly refer to as NZHac or the NZHUG. Our next trip to Palmy will be late August I think.</div><div><br></div><div>There is an Erlang users group here in Wellington (organised by Lenz) and I attend when I can, there has not been a meeting in some time. It's really more of a FP group in a way as others that attending are not all Erlang users (but most use or would like to use a functional language of some sort). I think if we changed the name to the Wellington FP Users Group or something we might get more interest (especially if we catered to people interested in learning Scala and F#).</div><div><br></div><div>Hamish</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>