March 2010 - Hackathon

Photos from ZuriHac
by Sean Leather 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

I have seen a few mentions of photos in blog comments, but nothing in the mailing list. To aggregate all the photo links, please reply to the thread and share with us. David Anderson has a collection of Google-approved "inside" photos. - http://picasaweb.google.com/david.jc.anderson/Zurihac I have a collection of "outside" photos. I like to put names to faces. I did my best with what my limited memory still contains, but there are a number of people whom I didn't meet, forgot about, or mislabeled. If you have any contributions you'd like to make to improve this situation, please send me an email or leave a comment on the appropriate photo. - http://spl.smugmug.com/Switzerland-Trip-Mar-2010/Zurich/ZuriHac/11663336_wC… Regards, Sean

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Slides from the Lightning talks
by Sergey Astanin 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hi, Thanks everyone for a fantastic atmosphere at ZuriHac! Unfortunately, I had to leave before lightning talks/demos. Could someone put the slides of their talks online? I think many people would appreciate it. Sergey

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Zurihac release prize
by Don Stewart 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Hey all, As an incentive to complete projects this weekend, I'm offering a prize to hackathon attendees who upload packages to Hackage. If you release a package on Hackage (http://hackage.haskell.org) between today and lunch time Sunday, you go into the draw to win an exclusive "Real World Haskell" tshirt, featuring the famous "giant Haskell bug" icon. There are only a handful of these tshirts in existence, so it will be surely prized! http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9780596514983/lrg.jpg -- Don

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Power plugs
by Joachim Breitner 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Hi, I completely forgot that Switzerland has different powerplugs than the rest of Europe, and I won’t be able to get an converter until tomorrow. Therefore, I’d be grateful if some other attendees would bring converters and powerstrips where the common E+F-plugs will work in. For reference: This is what I have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CEE_7-7.jpg This is what the swiss use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:J_plug.jpg Thanks, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail(a)joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nomeata(a)joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata(a)debian.org

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City Backpacker autodiscovery
by Roman Cheplyaka 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

People staying in CB: please register yourself at the accomodations page[1] so we can coordinate. Of course you can register if you are staying elsewhere ;) 1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ZuriHac/Accommodations -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ "Don't let school get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain

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Re: [darcs-users] darcs hacking sprint (ZuriHac) info!
by Eric Kow 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Just a last minute reminder for tomorrow :-) PS. I hear on #darcs that Ganesh is bringing a UK power strip, but I wouldn't count on using it as there may be quite a few of us :-) Pre-sprint meeting - Fri 12:00; pizzeria ----------------------------------------- We'll be meeting for lunch at Friday noon at the Pizzeria Santa Lucia Niederdorf (Marktgasse 21), near the City Backpacker hostel. Details on http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03 This will be a great chance for introductions (especially for new or potential Darcs hackers). On the agenda: - prioritising ProbablyEasy bugs for new Darcs hackers - plans for the sprint (news, other meetings, discussions, etc) Get your laptops ready! ----------------------- You'll have more fun if you can hit the ground running, so please make sure you can do all of these things: 1. darcs get --lazy http://darcs.net 2. cabal configure; cabal build 3. darcs send (your patch should wind up on the tracker) #3 is especially important. Here's the quick start 3a. create a test patch (see http://darcs.net/report.html ) 3b. see http://wiki.darcs.net/Msmtp 3c. darcs send 3d. wait 10 minutes 3e. check the patch tracker http://bugs.darcs.net (Patches > Show Open) Travel reimbursements possible ------------------------------ Thanks to a successful fundraising effort, we will be able to reimburse travel costs for folks working on Darcs. Do let me know if you're interested, and please save your receipts! If you have electronic tickets, I think that's fine (perhaps even better); please email them to me. More information on the wiki --------------------------- Information about the sprint, including meetings and maps will be on http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03 It may be a good idea to darcs get --lazy http://wiki.darcs.net before you leave so that you have an up to date version of the wiki :-) (cabal install gitit; gitit -f static/config works great for having a copy of Darcs wiki on localhost:5001) -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9

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Re: calling hledger zurihackers
by Roman Cheplyaka 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

I've slightly updated hledger entry [1] and added some ideas. 1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ZuriHac/Projects#hledger * Simon Michael <simon(a)joyful.com> [2010-03-16 07:29:21-0700] > Roman C. has cleverly added hledger to the list of topics for this > weekend's ZuriHac. I will be working remotely at least on sunday > (PDT), and available to support where possible. You are invited to > join us! Some ideas - > > - add Chart or google charts to the web ui > - smarter add/convert commands > - separate library package > - plugins > - a how-to for tracking project finances; a tutorial; screencasts > - portability, packaging, installability > - code review/design review/planning > > Even one commit helps! Discussions too. Hope to see you "there". > > -Simon (sm) > > #ledger, #zurihac > http://hledger.org > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ZuriHac > -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ "Don't let school get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain

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Reminder: Sign up for a project before ZuriHac
by Johan Tibell 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hi all, I'd like to encourage everyone who haven't yet found a project to work on during ZuriHac to try to do so during the next few days. Once you have an idea for a project, write it down and put it on http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ZuriHac/Projects As I mentioned in my previous email, it will be more difficult to find people with similar interest during ZuriHac compared to previous hackathons given the large number of people attending. If you can't come up with a project before the hackathon at least put a list of your interests on the above mentioned page so others with similar interests can find you. Cheers, Johan

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Four Points
by Christopher Done 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

Hi, I'm staying at Four Points from the 18th to the 22nd. If anyone else is please let me know. Cheers!

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackaton: A roof to stay
by Roman Cheplyaka 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

* Matthias Görgens <matthias.goergens(a)googlemail.com> [2010-03-12 18:56:31+0000] > > im planing on going to the hackaton, but the prices in Zurich are unusually > > high for my tight budget, so i was wondering if there is anyone here that > > lives there and would allow me to sleep on their couch or on the floor > > during the hackaton. > > Is there ? > > Just a suggestion: Have you tried one of the couch surfing sites on the web? I support this. Give a try: http://www.couchsurfing.org/ http://www.hospitalityclub.org/ I found a host for Utrecht hackathon using couchsurfing.org. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ "Don't let school get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain

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