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 Hac 07, The 2007 Haskell Hackathon
 10-12 January, 2007
 Oxford, UK

 http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac_2007

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Following the success of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Hackathon GHC] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon Hackathon] 
at ICFP, we are pleased to announce that the inaugural Haskell
Hackathon! The event will be held over 3 days, January 10-12 2007,
at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, in the UK. 

The plan is to hack on Haskell infrastructure, tools, libraries and
compilers. To attend, please register, by adding your name to the wiki
page, and get ready to hack those lambdas! 

== When ==

    10-12 January, 2007
    10am until the code stops typechecking

== Where ==

    Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

== Accomodation ===

    Wednesday 10
    Thursday  11
    Friday    12

    http://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors/
    http://www.oxford.gov.uk/tourism/where-to-stay.cfm
    http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/venues.php?cat=hotel

== Getting there ==

    Oxford University Computing Laboratory:
        http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/about/directions.html

    Oxford:
        http://www.ox.ac.uk/aboutoxford/how.shtml
        http://www.oxford.gov.uk/tourism/how-to-get-to-oxford.cfm
        http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/guide/index.html

    Airport:
        London Heathrow (LHR) is the best airport.

== What to bring ==

    * Yourself
    * Laptop, wireless card, ethernet cable
    * Typechecker
    * Lambdas
    * Brain snacks

== Before you arrive ==

    * Install darcs
    * Make sure you have an up to date Cabal
    * Get a darcs GHC, YHC, Hugs ... installed

== What we will bring ==

    * Wireless net access
    * Wired net access
    * Room to hack
    * Power points
     
== What to hack on ==

    * porting libraries
    * new library/tool releases
    * compiler ports: want to get YHC running on your favourite machine?
    * new tools
    * infrastructure hacking: cabal, hackage
    * documentation
    * tutorials
    * bug squashing
    * feature implementations (walk the Trac list)

Scheduling is flexible, feel free to drop in any time during the 3 days.

== Food ==

    Arranged locally.

== Registration ==

    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaC_2007

== Key Dates ==

    January 2007
     Su Mo Tu We Th Fr  Sa
         1  2  3  4  5   6
      7  8  9[10 11 12] 13 
    [14 15 16 17 18 19] 20
     21 22 23 24 25 26  27
     28 29 30 31

    HaC07 Oxford       January 11-12, 2007

    PADL, Nice/France, January 14-15 2007
    DAMP, Nice/France, January 16
    TLDI, Nice/France, January 16
    POPL, Nice/France, January 17-19 2007

== Organisers ==

    Duncan Coutts   dcoutts@
    Ian Lynagh      igloo@
    Don Stewart     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons