Hi everyone. The rumours may have been around for quite some time -- it is true: the next Hackathon is planned to be in Utrecht, sometime between March and May 2009. The planning on the Utrecht side has been slowed down somewhat because the Computer Science department is going to move between buildings on campus in March (at least that's what is currently planned). This leads to quite some uncertainty about the availability of rooms and services. Like at least last time, I'd plan for the Hackathon to take place from Friday to Sunday. Depending on the number of participants registered and their travel plans, it might be nice to organize a series of talks and/or an excursion on the adjacent days (Thursday and/or Monday). The earliest possible weekend is March 6--8, which by now is probably already to soon. It would fit nicely with the ICFP deadline (March 2), and would be clearly before the Haskell Symposium deadline, thereby offering the possibility of having Hackathon results inspire a paper. Also, from February to March, I'm teaching Advanced Functional Programming here in Utrecht, and it would be nice for the students to get exposed to Haskell hackers during the course. March 13--15 clashes with the TFP submission deadline (March 15), but seems possible. March 20--22 as well. I will be travelling from March 30--April 3, so that time is bad. The next weekend (April 10--12) is Easter, which I suspect will be difficult for others (and also for me to get anything organized). April 17--19 and April 24--26 seem like possible weekends to me. Haskell Symposium deadline isn't published yet, afaik, but I expect it to be in the beginning of May. During the next few days, I'll try again whether I can get some clear statements as to which dates are the least likely to be affected by network maintenance, server moves, closed buildings etc. Still, I'd also like to get input on other constraints I may have been missing, or preferences. Cheers, Andres -- Andres Loeh, Universiteit Utrecht mailto:andres@cs.uu.nl mailto:mail@andres-loeh.de http://www.andres-loeh.de