[Haskell] [Call for Contributions] Haskell Communities and Activities Report, November 2018 edition (35th edition)

2018-10-06 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Dear all,

We would like to collect contributions for the 35th edition of the


   Haskell Communities & Activities Report

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

Submission deadline: 4 November 2018

   (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
in plain text or LaTeX format, both are equally accepted)


This is the short story:

* If you are working on any project that is in some way related to
Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if the project
is very small or unfinished or you think it is not important enough
--- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!

* If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that
has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell us, so that
we can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an entry.

* If you are working on a project that is looking for contributors,
please write a short entry and submit it, mentioning that your are
looking for contributors.

* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
might be interested.

More detailed information:

The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as
well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
many questions.

Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
know about!

Looking forward to your contributions,

Mihai Maruseac

FAQ:

Q: What format should I write in?

A: Any format is ok, I will transpose the submission to the format in
use at the time of publication. Previous editions have used a LaTeX
format, with the template that is available at:

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2018/template.tex

And the associated LaTeX style file at

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2018/hcar.sty

You can use those to edit and preview your entry, but it is very
likely that by the time of publication the entire HCAR pipeline would
be changed to a more modern one. You will receive a copy of the draft,
prior to publication, to ensure that everything looks ok.

If you modify an old entry that you have written for an earlier
edition of the report, you should soon receive your old entry as a
template (provided we have your valid email address). Please modify
that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as
a template.

Q: Can I include Haskell code?

A: Yes. If using LaTeX, you can use lhs2tex syntax
(http://www.andres-loeh.de/lhs2tex/). The report is compiled in mode
polycode.fmt.

Q: Can I include images?

A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg or .png
format, then. PNG is preferred for simplicity.

Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar?

A: No, plain file attachments are the way.

Q: How much should I write?

A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A
general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be
given for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project.
Images do not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use
this opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an
entry! The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please
consider writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.

Q: Which topics are relevant?

A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant.
We usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
language extensions or variants. We also like reports about
distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and
tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to
Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do
not even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it
probably is relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also simply
ask us.

Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?

A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might
help you. You can use HC

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (34th ed., May 2018)

2018-05-15 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the

   Haskell Communities and Activities Report
(34th edition, May 2018)

is now available, in PDF and HTML formats:

  http://haskell.org/communities/05-2018/report.pdf
  http://haskell.org/communities/05-2018/html/report.html

All previous editions of HCAR can be accessed on the wiki at
https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

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. We hope you will find
it as interesting a read as we 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 editors collect all the contributions
  into a single report and feed that back to the community.

When we 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 September 2018:
   target deadline for contributions to the
October 2018 edition of the HCAR 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 editors for a simple
e-mail reminder in November (you could point us to them as well, and we
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!

-- 
Mihai Maruseac (MM)
"If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can
solve: find it." -- George Polya
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[Haskell] [Call for Contributions] Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2018 edition (34th edition)

2018-03-26 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Dear all,

We would like to collect contributions for the 34th edition of the


   Haskell Communities & Activities Report

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

Submission deadline: 30 April 2018

   (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
in plain text or LaTeX format, both are equally accepted)


This is the short story:

* If you are working on any project that is in some way related to
Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if the project
is very small or unfinished or you think it is not important enough
--- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!

* If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that
has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell us, so that
we can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an entry.

* If you are working on a project that is looking for contributors,
please write a short entry and submit it, mentioning that your are
looking for contributors.

* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
might be interested.

More detailed information:

The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as
well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
many questions.

Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
know about!

Looking forward to your contributions,

Mihai Maruseac


FAQ:

Q: What format should I write in?

A: The usual format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template
that is available at:

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2017/template.tex

There is also a LaTeX style file at

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2017/hcar.sty

that you can use to preview your entry.

If you do not know LaTeX or don't want to use it or don't have time to
translate your entry into it, then please use plain text, it is better
to have an entry in plain-text which we will translate than not have
it at all.

If you modify an old entry that you have written for an earlier
edition of the report, you should soon receive your old entry as a
template (provided we have your valid email address). Please modify
that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as
a template.

Q: Can I include Haskell code?

A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax
(http://www.andres-loeh.de/lhs2tex/). The report is compiled in mode
polycode.fmt.

Q: Can I include images?

A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg or .png
format, then. PNG is preferred for simplicity.

Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar?

A: No, plain file attachments are the way.

Q: How much should I write?

A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A
general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be
given for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project.
Images do not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use
this opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an
entry! The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please
consider writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.

Q: Which topics are relevant?

A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant.
We usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
language extensions or variants. We also like reports about
distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and
tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to
Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do
not even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it
probably is relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also simply
ask us.

Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?

A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might
help you. You can use HCAR to ask for more contributors to your
project, it is a good way to gain visibility and traction.

Q: If I do n

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (33rd ed., November 2017)

2017-11-15 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the

   Haskell Communities and Activities Report
(33rd edition, November 2017)

is now available, in PDF and HTML formats:

  http://haskell.org/communities/11-2017/report.pdf
  http://haskell.org/communities/11-2017/html/report.html

All previous editions of HCAR can be accessed on the wiki at
https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

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. We hope you will find
it as interesting a read as we 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 editors collect all the contributions
  into a single report and feed that back to the community.

When we 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 February 2018:
   target deadline for contributions to the
May 2018 edition of the HCAR 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 editors for a simple
e-mail reminder in November (you could point us to them as well, and we
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!


-- 
Mihai Maruseac (MM)
"If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can
solve: find it." -- George Polya
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[Haskell] [Call for Contributions] Haskell Communities and Activities Report, November 2017 edition (33rd edition)

2017-10-05 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Dear all,

We would like to collect contributions for the 33rd edition of the


   Haskell Communities & Activities Report

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

Submission deadline: 5 November 2017

   (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
in plain text or LaTeX format, both are equally accepted)


This is the short story:

* If you are working on any project that is in some way related to
Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if the project
is very small or unfinished or you think it is not important enough
--- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!

* If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that
has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell us, so that
we can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an entry.

* If you are working on a project that is looking for contributors,
please write a short entry and submit it, mentioning that your are
looking for contributors.

* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
might be interested.

More detailed information:

The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as
well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
many questions.

Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
know about!

Looking forward to your contributions,

Mihai Maruseac


FAQ:

Q: What format should I write in?

A: The usual format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template
that is available at:

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2017/template.tex

There is also a LaTeX style file at

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2017/hcar.sty

that you can use to preview your entry.

If you do not know LaTeX or don't want to use it or don't have time to
translate your entry into it, then please use plain text, it is better
to have an entry in plain-text which we will translate than not have
it at all.

If you modify an old entry that you have written for an earlier
edition of the report, you should soon receive your old entry as a
template (provided we have your valid email address). Please modify
that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as
a template.

Q: Can I include Haskell code?

A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax
(http://www.andres-loeh.de/lhs2tex/). The report is compiled in mode
polycode.fmt.

Q: Can I include images?

A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg or .png
format, then. PNG is preferred for simplicity.

Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar?

A: No, plain file attachments are the way.

Q: How much should I write?

A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A
general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be
given for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project.
Images do not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use
this opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an
entry! The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please
consider writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.

Q: Which topics are relevant?

A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant.
We usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
language extensions or variants. We also like reports about
distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and
tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to
Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do
not even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it
probably is relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also simply
ask us.

Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?

A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might
help you. You can use HCAR to ask for more contributors to your
project, it is a good way to gain visibility and traction.

Q: If I

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (32nd ed., May 2017)

2017-05-24 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the

   Haskell Communities and Activities Report
(32nd edition, May 2017)

is now available, in PDF and HTML formats:

  http://haskell.org/communities/05-2017/report.pdf
  http://haskell.org/communities/05-2017/html/report.html

All previous editions of HCAR can be accessed on the wiki at
https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

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. We hope you will find
it as interesting a read as we 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 editors collect all the contributions
  into a single report and feed that back to the community.

When we 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 September 2016:
   target deadline for contributions to the
November 2017 edition of the HCAR 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 editors for a simple
e-mail reminder in November (you could point us to them as well, and we
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!

-- 
Mihai Maruseac (MM)
"If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can
solve: find it." -- George Polya
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[Haskell] [Call for Contributions] Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2017 edition (32nd edition)

2017-04-02 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Dear all,

We would like to collect contributions for the 32nd edition (1th
edition) of the


   Haskell Communities & Activities Report

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

Submission deadline: 30 April 2017

   (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
in plain text or LaTeX format, both are equally accepted)


This is the short story:

* If you are working on any project that is in some way related to
Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if the project
is very small or unfinished or you think it is not important enough
--- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!

* If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that
has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell us, so that
we can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an entry.

* If you are working on a project that is looking for contributors,
please write a short entry and submit it, mentioning that your are
looking for contributors.

* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
might be interested.

More detailed information:

The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as
well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
many questions.

Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
know about!

Looking forward to your contributions,

Mihai Maruseac


FAQ:

Q: What format should I write in?

A: The usual format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template
that is available at:

 http://haskell.org/communities/05-2017/template.tex

There is also a LaTeX style file at

 http://haskell.org/communities/05-2017/hcar.sty

that you can use to preview your entry.

If you do not know LaTeX or don't want to use it or don't have time to
translate your entry into it, then please use plain text, it is better
to have an entry in plain-text which we will translate than not have
it at all.

If you modify an old entry that you have written for an earlier
edition of the report, you should soon receive your old entry as a
template (provided we have your valid email address). Please modify
that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as
a template.

Q: Can I include Haskell code?

A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax
(http://www.andres-loeh.de/lhs2tex/). The report is compiled in mode
polycode.fmt.

Q: Can I include images?

A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg or .png
format, then. PNG is preferred for simplicity.

Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar?

A: No, plain file attachments are the way.

Q: How much should I write?

A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A
general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be
given for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project.
Images do not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use
this opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an
entry! The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please
consider writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.

Q: Which topics are relevant?

A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant.
We usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
language extensions or variants. We also like reports about
distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and
tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to
Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do
not even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it
probably is relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also simply
ask us.

Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?

A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might
help you. You can use HCAR to ask for more contributors to your
project, it is a good way to gain visibility and trac

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (31st ed., November 2016)

2016-12-24 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the

   Haskell Communities and Activities Report
(31st edition, November 2016)

is now available, in PDF and HTML formats:

  http://haskell.org/communities/11-2016/report.pdf
  http://haskell.org/communities/11-2016/html/report.html

All previous editions of HCAR can be accessed on the wiki at
https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

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. We hope you will find
it as interesting a read as we 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 editors collect all the contributions
  into a single report and feed that back to the community.

When we 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 February 2016:
   target deadline for contributions to the
May 2017 edition of the HCAR 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 editors for a simple
e-mail reminder in November (you could point us to them as well, and we
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!

-- 
Mihai Maruseac (MM)
"If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can
solve: find it." -- George Polya
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[Haskell] Call for Contributions - Haskell Communities and Activities Report, November 2016 edition (31th edition)

2016-10-09 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Dear all,

We would like to collect contributions for the 31th edition of the


 Haskell Communities & Activities Report

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

Submission deadline: 30 October 2016

 (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
 in plain text or LaTeX format, both are equally accepted)


This is the short story:

* If you are working on any project that is in some way related
  to Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if
  the project is very small or unfinished or you think it is not
  important enough --- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!

* If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that
  has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell us, so
  that we can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an
  entry.

* If you are working on a project that is looking for contributors,
  please write a short entry and submit it, mentioning that your are looking
  for contributors.

* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
  might be interested.

More detailed information:

The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as
well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
many questions.

Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
know about!

Looking forward to your contributions,

Mihai Maruseac


FAQ:

Q: What format should I write in?

A: The usual format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template
that is available at:

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2016/template.tex

There is also a LaTeX style file at

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2016/hcar.sty

that you can use to preview your entry.

If you do not know LaTeX or don't want to use it or don't have time to
translate your entry into it, then please use plain text, it is better
to have an entry in plain-text which we will translate than not have
it at all.

If you modify an old entry that you have written for an earlier
edition of the report, you should soon receive your old entry as a
template (provided we have your valid email address). Please modify
that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as
a template.

Q: Can I include Haskell code?

A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax (http://www.andres-loeh.de/lhs2tex/).
The report is compiled in mode polycode.fmt.

Q: Can I include images?

A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg or .png
format, then. PNG is preferred for simplicity.

Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar?

A: No, plain file attachments are the way.

Q: How much should I write?

A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A
general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be given
for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project. Images do
not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use this
opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an entry!
The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please consider
writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.

Q: Which topics are relevant?

A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant. We
usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
language extensions or variants. We also like reports about
distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and
tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to
Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do not
even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it probably is
relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also simply ask us.

Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?

A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might help
you. You can use HCAR to ask for more contributors to your project,
it is a good way to gain visibility and tractio

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (30th ed., May 2016)

2016-05-18 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the

   Haskell Communities and Activities Report
(30th edition, May 2016)

is now available, in PDF and HTML formats:

  http://haskell.org/communities/05-2016/report.pdf
  http://haskell.org/communities/05-2016/html/report.html

All previous editions of HCAR can be accessed on the wiki at
https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

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. We hope you will find
it as interesting a read as we 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 editors collect all the contributions
  into a single report and feed that back to the community.

When we 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 September 2016:
   target deadline for contributions to the
November 2016 edition of the HCAR 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 editors for a simple
e-mail reminder in November (you could point us to them as well, and we
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!

-- 
Mihai Maruseac (MM)
"If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can
solve: find it." -- George Polya
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[Haskell] Call for Contributions - Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2016 edition (30th edition)

2016-04-03 Thread Mihai Maruseac
HCAR to ask for more contributors to your
project, it is a good way to gain visibility and traction.

Q: If I do not update my entry, but want to keep it in the report,
what should I do?

A: Tell us that there are no changes. The old entry will typically be
reused in this case, but it might be dropped if it is older than a
year, to give more room and more attention to projects that change a
lot. Do not resend complete entries if you have not changed them.

Q: Will I get confirmation if I send an entry? How do I know whether
my email has even reached its destination, and not ended up in a spam
folder?

A: Prior to publication of the final report, we will send a draft to
all contributors, for possible corrections. So if you do not hear from
us within two weeks after the deadline, it is safer to send another
mail and check whether your first one was received.

-- 
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[Haskell] NNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (29th ed., November 2015)

2015-11-21 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the

   Haskell Communities and Activities Report
(29th edition, November 2015)

is now available, in PDF and HTML formats:

  http://haskell.org/communities/11-2015/report.pdf
  http://haskell.org/communities/11-2015/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. We hope you will find
it as interesting a read as we 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 editors collect all the contributions
  into a single report and feed that back to the community.

When we 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 March 2015:
   target deadline for contributions to the
 May 2015 edition of the HCAR 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 editors for a simple
e-mail reminder in March (you could point us to them as well, and we
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!

Mihai Maruseac


-- 
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"If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can
solve: find it." -- George Polya
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[Haskell] Call for Contributions - Haskell Communities and Activities Report, November 2015 edition (29th edition)

2015-10-02 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Dear all,

We would like to collect contributions for the 28th edition of the


 Haskell Communities & Activities Report

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

Submission deadline: 30 October 2015

 (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
 in plain text or LaTeX format, both are equally accepted)


This is the short story:

* If you are working on any project that is in some way related
  to Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if
  the project is very small or unfinished or you think it is not
  important enough --- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!

* If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that
  has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell us, so
  that we can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an
  entry.

* If you are working on a project that is looking for contributors,
  please write a short entry and submit it, mentioning that your are looking
  for contributors. The final report might have an index with such projects,
  provided we get enough such submissions.

* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
  might be interested.

More detailed information:

The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as
well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
many questions.

Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
know about!

Looking forward to your contributions,

Mihai Maruseac and Alejandro Serrano Mena


FAQ:

Q: What format should I write in?

A: The usual format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template
that is available at:

 http://haskell.org/communities/05-2015/template.tex

There is also a LaTeX style file at

 http://haskell.org/communities/05-2015/hcar.sty

that you can use to preview your entry. If you do not know LaTeX, then
use plain text. If you modify an old entry that you have written for an
earlier edition of the report, you should soon receive your old entry as
a template (provided we have your valid email address). Please modify
that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as a
template.

_However_, if you don't want/have time to format the entry for LaTeX,
you can submit it in any other format possible and we will be happy to
convert it for the final report.

Q: Can I include Haskell code?

A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax (http://www.andres-loeh.de/lhs2tex/).
The report is compiled in mode polycode.fmt.

Q: Can I include images?

A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg or .png
format, then, PNG being preferred for simplicity.

Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar?

A: No, plain file attachements are the way.

Q: How much should I write?

A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A
general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be given
for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project. Images do
not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use this
opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an entry!
The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please consider
writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.

Q: Which topics are relevant?

A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant. We
usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
language extensions or variants. We also like reports about
distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and
tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to
Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do not
even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it probably is
relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also simply ask us.

Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?

A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
working on. You can use it to look for other developers that 

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (28th ed., May 2015)

2015-05-29 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the

   Haskell Communities and Activities Report
(28th edition, May 2014)

is now available, in PDF and HTML formats:

  http://haskell.org/communities/05-2015/report.pdf
  http://haskell.org/communities/05-2015/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. We hope you will find
it as interesting a read as we 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 editors collect all the contributions
  into a single report and feed that back to the community.

When we 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 September 2015:
   target deadline for contributions to the
 November 2015 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 editors for a simple
e-mail reminder in October (you could point us to them as well, and we
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!

Mihai Maruseac and Alejandro Serrano Mena


-- 
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"If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can
solve: find it." -- George Polya
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Re: [Haskell] all for Contributions - Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2015 edition (28th edition)

2015-05-13 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Mihai Maruseac
 wrote:
> We would like to collect contributions for the 28th edition of the
>
> 
>  Haskell Communities & Activities Report
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report
>
> Submission deadline: 17 May 2015
>
>  (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
>  in plain text or LaTeX format)
> 


Hi all.

Just a small reminder that the deadline for submissions is at the end
of this week.

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[Haskell] all for Contributions - Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2015 edition (28th edition)

2015-04-17 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Dear all,

We would like to collect contributions for the 28th edition of the


 Haskell Communities & Activities Report

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

Submission deadline: 17 May 2015

 (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
 in plain text or LaTeX format)


This is the short story (one extra point to the story added from
previous editions):

* If you are working on any project that is in some way related
  to Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if
  the project is very small or unfinished or you think it is not
  important enough --- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!

* If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that
  has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell us, so
  that we can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an
  entry.

* **NEW**: If you are working on a project that is looking for contributors,
  please write a short entry and submit it, mentioning that your are looking
  for contributors. The final report might have an index with such projects,
  provided we get enough such submissions.

* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
  might be interested.

More detailed information:

The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as
well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
many questions.

Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
know about!

Looking forward to your contributions,

Mihai Maruseac and Alejandro Serrano Mena


FAQ:

Q: What format should I write in?

A: The required format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template
that is available at:

 http://haskell.org/communities/05-2015/template.tex

There is also a LaTeX style file at

 http://haskell.org/communities/05-2015/hcar.sty

that you can use to preview your entry. If you do not know LaTeX, then
use plain text. If you modify an old entry that you have written for an
earlier edition of the report, you should soon receive your old entry as
a template (provided we have your valid email address). Please modify
that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as a
template.

Q: Can I include Haskell code?

A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax (http://www.andres-loeh.de/lhs2tex/).
The report is compiled in mode polycode.fmt.

Q: Can I include images?

A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg or .png
format, then, PNG being preferred for simplicity.

Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar?

A: No, plain file attachements are the way.

Q: How much should I write?

A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A
general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be given
for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project. Images do
not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use this
opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an entry!
The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please consider
writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.

Q: Which topics are relevant?

A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant. We
usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
language extensions or variants. We also like reports about
distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and
tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to
Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do not
even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it probably is
relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also simply ask us.

Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?

A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might help
you. You can use HCAR to ask for more contributors to your project,
it is a good way to gain visibility and traction.

Q: If 

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (27th ed., November 2014)

2014-11-16 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the

   Haskell Communities and Activities Report
(27th edition, November 2014)

is now available, in PDF and HTML formats:

  http://haskell.org/communities/11-2014/report.pdf
  http://haskell.org/communities/11-2014/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. We hope you will find
it as interesting a read as we 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 editors collect all the contributions
  into a single report and feed that back to the community.

When we 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 2015:
   target deadline for contributions to the
 May 2015 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 editors for a simple
e-mail reminder in October (you could point us to them as well, and we
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!

Mihai Maruseac and Alejandro Serrano Mena


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[Haskell] Call for Contributions - Haskell Communities and Activities Report, November 2014 edition

2014-10-04 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Dear all,

We would like to collect contributions for the 27th edition of the


 Haskell Communities & Activities Report

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

Submission deadline: 1 Nov 2014

 (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
 in plain text or LaTeX format)


This is the short story:

* If you are working on any project that is in some way related
  to Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if
  the project is very small or unfinished or you think it is not
  important enough --- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!

* If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that
  has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell us, so
  that we can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an
  entry.

* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
  might be interested.

More detailed information:

The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as
well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
many questions.

Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
know about!

Looking forward to your contributions,

Mihai Maruseac and Alejandro Serrano Mena


FAQ:

Q: What format should I write in?

A: The required format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template
that is available at:

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2014/template.tex

There is also a LaTeX style file at

 http://haskell.org/communities/11-2014/hcar.sty

that you can use to preview your entry. If you do not know LaTeX, then
use plain text. If you modify an old entry that you have written for an
earlier edition of the report, you should soon receive your old entry as
a template (provided we have your valid email address). Please modify
that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as a
template.

Q: Can I include Haskell code?

A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax (http://www.andres-loeh.de/lhs2tex/).
The report is compiled in mode polycode.fmt.

Q: Can I include images?

A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg format, then.

Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar?

A: No, plain file attachements are the way.

Q: How much should I write?

A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A
general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be given
for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project. Images do
not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use this
opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an entry!
The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please consider
writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.

Q: Which topics are relevant?

A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant. We
usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
language extensions or variants. We also like reports about
distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and
tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to
Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do not
even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it probably is
relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also simply ask us.

Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?

A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might help
you.

Q: If I do not update my entry, but want to keep it in the report, what
should I do?

A: Tell us that there are no changes. The old entry will typically be
reused in this case, but it might be dropped if it is older than a year,
to give more room and more attention to projects that change a lot. Do
not resend complete entries if you have not changed them.

Q: Will I get confirmation if I send an entry? How do I know whether my
email has even reached its destination, and not ended up in a spam fo

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (26th ed., May 2014)

2014-05-21 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the

   Haskell Communities and Activities Report
(26th edition, May 2014)

is now available, in PDF and HTML formats:

 http://www.haskell.org/communities/05-2014/report.pdf
 http://www.haskell.org/communities/05-2014/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. We hope you will find
it as interesting a read as we 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 editors collect all the contributions
  into a single report and feed that back to the community.

When we 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 October 2014:
   target deadline for contributions to the
 November 2014 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 editors for a simple
e-mail reminder in October (you could point us to them as well, and we
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!

Mihai Maruseac and Alejandro Serrano Mena


-- 
Mihai Maruseac (MM)
"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to
learn." -- Atlas Shrugged.
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[Haskell] Call for Contributions - Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2014 edition

2014-04-05 Thread Mihai Maruseac
Dear all,

I would like to collect contributions for the 24th edition of the


 Haskell Communities & Activities Report

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report

Submission deadline: 1 May 2014

 (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
 in plain text or LaTeX format)


This is the short story:

* If you are working on any project that is in some way related
  to Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if
  the project is very small or unfinished or you think it is not
  important enough --- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!

* If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that
  has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell me, so
  that I can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an
  entry.

* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
  might be interested.

More detailed information:

The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as
well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
many questions.

Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
know about!

Looking forward to your contributions,

Mihai Maruseac and Alejandro Serrano Mena (current co-editors)


FAQ:

Q: What format should I write in?

A: The required format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template
that is available at:

 http://haskell.org/communities/05-2013/template.tex

There is also a LaTeX style file at

 http://haskell.org/communities/05-2013/hcar.sty

that you can use to preview your entry. If you do not know LaTeX, then
use plain text. If you modify an old entry that you have written for an
earlier edition of the report, you should already have received your old
entry as a template (provided I have your valid email address). Please
modify that template, rather than using your own version of the old
entry as a template.

Q: Can I include Haskell code?

A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax (http://people.cs.uu.nl/andres/lhs2tex/).
The report is compiled in mode polycode.fmt.

Q: Can I include images?

A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg format, then.

Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar?

A: No, plain file attachements are the way.

Q: How much should I write?

A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A
general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be given
for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project. Images do
not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use this
opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an entry!
The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please consider
writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.

Q: Which topics are relevant?

A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant. We
usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
language extensions or variants. We also like reports about
distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and
tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to
Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do not
even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it probably is
relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also ask the editor.

Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?

A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might help
you.

Q: If I do not update my entry, but want to keep it in the report, what
should I do?

A: Tell the editor that there are no changes. The old entry will
typically be reused in this case, but it might be dropped if it is older
than a year, to give more room and more attention to projects that
change a lot. Do not resend complete entries if you have not changed them.

Q: Will I get confirmation if I send an entry? How do I know whether my
email has even reached t

Re: [Haskell] Beginner - Binary Search Tree Question

2011-02-12 Thread Mihai Maruseac
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:39 PM, htc2011  wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am learning Haskell and can't understand the following problem. Maybe
> somebody could advise me on a solution?
>
> Using GHCI, I have the following definition of a BST:
> data Ord a => BST a = EmptyBST | Node ( BST a ) a ( BST a ) deriving (Show)
>
> I want to determine the number of leaves that a tree using the above
> definition has:
> numLeaves :: Ord a => BST a -> Int
> numLeaves EmptyBST = 0
> numLeaves (Node b a c)
>        | b == EmptyBST = 1 + numLeaves c
>        | c == EmptyBST = 1 + numLeaves b
>        | otherwise = numLeaves b + numLeaves c
>
> However whenever I load my haskell file containing the above code into GHCI,
> I get the following error:
>
> Could not deduce (Eq (BST a)) from the context (Ord a)
>      arising from a use of `==' at a8.hs:17:3-15
>    Possible fix:
>      add (Eq (BST a)) to the context of
>        the type signature for `numLeaves'
>      or add an instance declaration for (Eq (BST a))
>    In the expression: b == EmptyBST
>    In a stmt of a pattern guard for
>                 the definition of `numLeaves':
>          b == EmptyBST
>    In the definition of `numLeaves':
>        numLeaves (Node b a c)
>                    | b == EmptyBST = 1 + numLeaves c
>                    | c == EmptyBST = 1 + numLeaves b
>                    | otherwise = numLeaves b + numLeaves c
>
> Could anybody explain to me what this means? / How to get around this?
>
> Thank you for your time!

Hi,

You are comparing two BST instances in the second expression for
numLeaves without declaring the Eq instance.

numLeaves (Node b a c) will bind b and c to two BST instances. When
you are comparing b and c with EmptyBST an error is raised.

To solve this, you'll have to declare an Eq instance, just like you've
declared a Show one:

data Ord a => BST a = EmptyBST | Node ( BST a ) a ( BST a ) deriving (Show, Eq)

This will solve it :D

-- 
Mihai

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