Yes! This is a great idea. I'm a Haskell enthusiast in St. Louis, MO, USA and have given numerous talks on Haskell locally at Lambda Lounge[1], a catch-all groups for functional programmers, and the St.Louis Perl Mongers[2].
I would love to have a dedicated Haskell User Group, but unfortunately this town appears to run on the JVM and I haven't been able to drum up too much interest by myself. I've also never started or run a user group before and I am also not the greatest salesman so some pointers on how to create a buzz would be helpful. -deech [1] lambdalounge.org [2] http://stlouis.pm.org/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Eric Y. Kow <eric....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We may be coming to a time where we start to see Haskell User Groups or > Functional Programming clubs popping up all the over the place. Maybe > it's a good time to put our heads together and figure out what we can do > to nurture these groups, to keep them going strong rather than fizzling > out. > > One idea might be create some sort of Haskell User Group starter kit > so that individual groups can hit the ground running with some > concrete ideas. > > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_User_Group > > My hope is that it would provide just enough material for a group to > reach critical mass. So just enough stuff to account for the different > kinds of activities a HUG may want to do (eg. Coding Dojos vs Talks vs > Reading Group), but not so much that HUGs feel intimidated or stifled. > > Have you started a HUG recently? Or are you thinking of starting one? > Maybe you could contribute just one idea to the kit? More welcome, > of course :-) > > -- > Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> > For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or > xmpp:ko...@jabber.fr (Jabber or Google Talk only) > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
