Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-17 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
1) Who's interested Interest, yes, but time is a very scarce resource these days... 2) What dates are good Midyear break is 29 Jun to 18 Jul at UNSW, but I'm away for a week in that time period. 3) What projects people want to work on To be honest, I'd probably be in and out and, on a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-16 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Ivan Miljenovic wrote: Would other Australians be interested in having our own Hackathon (why should all those northerners have all the fun)? Agreed! I'm thinking about organising it to be in the July break between university semesters. I'm a working programmer who has no idea when the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-16 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com writes: I'm a working programmer who has no idea when the university semesters start and end. Please don't leave me out :-). [snip] As the father of a school age child, I have some rather high demands on my 4 weeks of annual leave. For me, it would be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Mason
* A plotting library using Ben's newly released Gloss library (for people who can't or won't install Gtk2Hs to get Chart working; Alex Mason is interested in this) * Various graph-related project (graphviz, generic graph class, etc.; this assumes someone else apart from me cares about this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-16 Thread Ben Lippmeier
On 16/03/2010, at 10:45 PM, Alex Mason wrote: I'd suggest focusing on core Haskell infrastructure, like compilers and tools, rather than individual libraries -- though it all depends on who wants to come along. Basically, we're just aiming to get a bunch of like minded people together,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Wotton
On 16/03/2010, at 4:28 PM, Ivan Miljenovic wrote: Would other Australians be interested in having our own Hackathon (why should all those northerners have all the fun)? I'm thinking about organising it to be in the July break between university semesters. There was a previous consideration a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Mason
Would other Australians be interested in having our own Hackathon (why should all those northerners have all the fun)? I'm thinking about organising it to be in the July break between university semesters. There was a previous consideration a few years back to have an OzHaskell group

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-16 Thread Bernie Pope
On 16 March 2010 16:28, Ivan Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: Would other Australians be interested in having our own Hackathon (why should all those northerners have all the fun)?  I'm thinking about organising it to be in the July break between university semesters. Yes, I am

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-16 Thread Hamish Mackenzie
On 16 Mar 2010, at 18:28, Ivan Miljenovic wrote: So, at least as an initial listing, we'd need to have a listing of: 1) Who's interested I am. 2) What dates are good A weekend would be best for me. 3) What projects people want to work on Leksah. 4) Where we can host this I suppose

[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-15 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
Would other Australians be interested in having our own Hackathon (why should all those northerners have all the fun)? I'm thinking about organising it to be in the July break between university semesters. There was a previous consideration a few years back to have an OzHaskell group

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Australian Hackathon

2010-03-15 Thread Ben Lippmeier
On 16/03/2010, at 4:28 PM, Ivan Miljenovic wrote: * A plotting library using Ben's newly released Gloss library (for people who can't or won't install Gtk2Hs to get Chart working; Alex Mason is interested in this) * Various graph-related project (graphviz, generic graph class, etc.; this