[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (23rd ed., November 2012)

[David Sabel]

Dear Janis,
  thanks for your great work in preparing the report.

David


Am 17.11.2012 22:03, schrieb Janis Voigtländer:
> On behalf of all the contributors, I am pleased to announce that the
>
>            Haskell Communities and Activities Report
>                 (23rd edition, November 2012)
>
> is now available in PDF and HTML formats:
>
>   http://haskell.org/communities/11-2012/report.pdf
>   http://haskell.org/communities/11-2012/html/report.html
>
> Many thanks go to all the people that contributed to this report,
> both directly, by sending in descriptions, and indirectly, by doing
> all the interesting things that are reported. I hope you will find
> it as interesting a read as I did.
>
> If you have not encountered the Haskell Communities and Activities
> Reports before, you may like to know that the first of these reports
> was published in November 2001. Their goal is to improve the
> communication between the increasingly diverse groups, projects, and
> individuals working on, with, or inspired by Haskell. The idea behind
> these reports is simple:
>
>   Every six months, a call goes out to all of you enjoying Haskell to
>   contribute brief summaries of your own area of work. Many of you
>   respond (eagerly, unprompted, and sometimes in time for the actual
>   deadline) to the call. The editor collects all the contributions
>   into a single report and feeds that back to the community.
>
> When I try for the next update, six months from now, you might want
> to report on your own work, project, research area or group as well.
> So, please put the following into your diaries now:
>
>            ========================================
>                     End of April 2013:
>            target deadline for contributions to the
>              May 2013 edition of the HC&A Report
>            ========================================
>
> Unfortunately, many Haskellers working on interesting projects are so
> busy with their work that they seem to have lost the time to follow
> the Haskell related mailing lists and newsgroups, and have trouble even
> finding time to report on their work. If you are a member, user or
> friend of a project so burdened, please find someone willing to make
> time to report and ask them to "register" with the editor for a simple
> e-mail reminder in April (you could point me to them as well, and I
> can then politely ask if they want to contribute, but it might work
> better if you do the initial asking). Of course, they will still have to
> find the ten to fifteen minutes to draw up their report, but maybe we
> can increase our coverage of all that is going on in the community.
>
> Feel free to circulate this announcement further in order to
> reach people who might otherwise not see it. Enjoy!
>
> Janis Voigtlaender
> <hcar at haskell.org>
>
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