Reminder. The deadline is end-of-day this Tuesday. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Johan Tibell <[email protected]> wrote: > Call for Talks > ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Implementors' Workshop > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaskellImplementorsWorkshop/2012 > Copenhagen, Denmark, September 14th, 2012 > The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2012 > http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2012/ > > Important dates > > Proposal Deadline: 10th July 2012 > Notification: 27th July 2012 > Workshop: 14th September 2012 > > The Haskell Implementors' Workshop is to be held alongside ICFP 2012 > this year in Copenhagen, Denmark. There will be no proceedings; it is an > informal gathering of people involved in the design and development of > Haskell implementations, tools, libraries, and supporting > infrastructure. > > This relatively new workshop reflects the growth of the user community: > there is a clear need for a well-supported tool chain for the > development, distribution, deployment, and configuration of Haskell > software. The aim is for this workshop to give the people involved with > building the infrastructure behind this ecosystem an opportunity to bat > around ideas, share experiences, and ask for feedback from fellow > experts. > > We intend the workshop to have an informal and interactive feel, with a > flexible timetable and plenty of room for ad-hoc discussion, demos, and > impromptu short talks. > > > Scope and target audience > ------------------------- > > It is important to distinguish the Haskell Implementors' Workshop from > the Haskell Symposium which is also co-located with ICFP 2012. The > Haskell Symposium is for the publication of Haskell-related research. In > contrast, the Haskell Implementors' Workshop will have no proceedings -- > although we will aim to make talk videos, slides and presented data > available with the consent of the speakers. > > In the Haskell Implementors' Workshop, we hope to study the underlying > technology. We want to bring together anyone interested in the > nitty-gritty details behind turning plain-text source code into a > deployed product. Having said that, members of the wider Haskell > community are more than welcome to attend the workshop -- we need your > feedback to keep the Haskell ecosystem thriving. > > The scope covers any of the following topics. There may be some topics > that people feel we've missed, so by all means submit a proposal even if > it doesn't fit exactly into one of these buckets: > > * Compilation techniques > * Language features and extensions > * Type system implementation > * Concurrency and parallelism: language design and implementation > * Performance, optimisation and benchmarking > * Virtual machines and run-time systems > * Libraries and tools for development or deployment > > > Talks > ----- > > At this stage we would like to invite proposals from potential speakers > for a relatively short talk. We are aiming for 20 minute talks with 10 > minutes for questions and changeovers. We want to hear from people > writing compilers, tools, or libraries, people with cool ideas for > directions in which we should take the platform, proposals for new > features to be implemented, and half-baked crazy ideas. Please submit a > talk title and abstract of no more than 200 words to: > [email protected] > > We will also have a lightning talks session which will be organised on > the day. These talks will be 2-10 minutes, depending on available time. > Suggested topics for lightning talks are to present a single idea, a > work-in-progress project, a problem to intrigue and perplex Haskell > implementors, or simply to ask for feedback and collaborators. > > > Organisers > ---------- > > * Lennart Augustsson (Standard Chartered Bank) > * Manuel M T Chakravarty (University of New South Wales) > * Gregory Collins - co-chair (Google) > * Simon Marlow (Microsoft Research) > * David Terei (Stanford University) > * Johan Tibell - co-chair (Google)
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