Vlad, thanks for posting the question, I'd have never gotten around to do it :-)
In St.Petersburg, Russia we had a HUG for over a year now and, since I've moved here recently, I'd really like to have something similar here, in terms of quality of the presentations and discussions. Based on what we had there, I have some idea of the general plan which could work well for the meetings: - First presentation (usually 0:45-1:00, sometimes more than that, longer than 1:30 is strongly discouraged) - Break (we brought tea and cookies), during which we had a lot of Haskell- and FP-related discussions (usually 0:20-1:00) - Second presentation - Another break, wrap-up List of topics we had in St.Petersburg (unfortunately, all in Russian): - Introduction to Category Theory - Introduction to QuickCheck - Zipper and other purely functional data-structures (in two parts spanning two separate meetings) - Free Theorems (Theorems for Free) - Serialization combinators (Pickler Combinators) - Scrap Your Boilerplate & Uniplate - Introduction to Erlang - Monad Transformers - Introduction to Arrows - Parallel Programming in Haskell - Generators in Python - Lambda Cube - Actors in Haskell, Scheme and Python - Coq As you can see it was not completely Haskell-oriented, but we tried to stay close to Haskell. Most of the topics discussed assumed good knowledge of Haskell, discussions during the breaks appeared to be very interesting and rewarding. Our meetings were usually around 4 hours long, which is a little too long and tiresome. I'll try to find out if it would be possible to host our meetings at Sun in Menlo Park (I've been told that it's possible to do). I can also try to translate my presentation on SYB & Uniplate into English, although I'm not a good English speaker. Ivan On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Vlad Patryshev <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > I wonder if there is such a thing as BAHUG, Bay Area Haskell User Group, > and if it does not, I wonder if there could be enough > enthusiasts/professionals to set up such a thing? > > -- > :) > -Vlad > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to "Bay Area Functional Programmers" To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bayfp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
