[Haskell-cafe] Haskell User Group starter kit

aditya siram aditya.siram at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 20:09:01 CEST 2011


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.kow at 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 :-)
>
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