[Haskell-cafe] Re: Proposal: Australian Hackathon

[Ivan Miljenovic]

OK, so we have a fair number of people indicating interest... so which
weekend would be preferred?

26/27 June

3/4 July

10/11 July

17/18 July

Or should we take this to the wiki rather than the mailing list?

On 16 March 2010 16:28, Ivan Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at 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.
>
> There was a previous consideration a few years back to have an
> OzHaskell group (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/OzHaskell) but
> nothing seems to have eventuated out of it.
>
> In terms of projects, here are some ideas:
>
> * 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 stuff)
> * Hubris if Mark Wotton comes along
> * LLVM if David Terei comes
>
> So, at least as an initial listing, we'd need to have a listing of:
> 1) Who's interested
> 2) What dates are good
> 3) What projects people want to work on
> 4) Where we can host this
>
> Let's get the ball rolling!
>
> --
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
> IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
>



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