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Last Call for Contributions: BOB 2021 [Feb 26, Deadline Nov 13]
by Stefan Wehr 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

BOB Conference 2021 "What happens when we use what's best for a change?" http://bobkonf.de/2021/cfc.html Berlin, February 26 Call for Contributions Deadline: November 13, 2020 You are actively engaged in advanced software engineering methods, implement ambitious architectures and are open to cutting-edge innovation? Attend this conference, meet people that share your goals, and get to know the best software tools and technologies available today. We strive to offer a day full of new experiences and impressions that you can use to immediately improve your daily life as a software developer. If you share our vision and want to contribute, submit a proposal for a talk or tutorial! NOTE: The conference fee will be waived for presenters. Travel expenses will not be covered (for exceptions see "Speaker Grants"). Online or Onsite We do know yet whether BOB will happen onsite in Berlin or as an online event. Should BOB happen online, we will likely ask for pre-recorded talks to make room for questions and social interactions during the actual conference day. (Of course, we'll provide assistance making those recordings.) Tutorials will likely happen as a live-session. Speaker Grants -------------- BOB has Speaker Grants available to support speakers from groups under-represented in technology. We specifically seek women speakers, speakers of color, and speakers who are not be able to attend the conference for financial reasons. Shepherding ----------- The program committee offers shepherding to all speakers. Shepherding provides speakers assistance with preparing their sessions. Specifically: - advice on structure and presentation - review of talk slides - assistance with recording - review of recording, if applicable Topics ------ We are looking for talks about best-of-breed software technology, e.g.: - functional programming - persistent data structures and databases - event-based modelling and architecture - types - formal methods for correctness and robustness - abstractions for concurrency and parallelism - metaprogramming - probabilistic programming - math and programming - controlled side effects - beyond REST and SOAP - effective abstractions for data analytics - … everything really that isn’t mainstream, but you think should be. Presenters should provide the audience with information that is practically useful for software developers. We're especially interested in experience reports. Other topics are also relevant, e.g.: - introductory talks on technical background - overviews of a given field - demos and how-tos Requirements ------------ We accept proposals for presentations of 45 minutes (40 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions), as well as 90 minute tutorials for beginners. The language of presentation should be either English or German. Your proposal should include (in your presentation language of choice): - An abstract of max. 1500 characters. - A short bio/cv - Contact information (including at least email address) - A list of 3-5 concrete ideas of how your work can be applied in a developer's daily life - additional material (websites, blogs, slides, videos of past presentations, …) - Don't be confused: The system calls a submission event. Organisation ------------ - Direct questions to contact at bobkonf dot de - Proposal deadline: November 13, 2020 - Notification: November 27, 2020 - Program: December 6, 2020 Submit here: https://bobcfc.active-group.de/en/bob2021/cfp Program Committee ----------------- (more information here: https://bobkonf.de/2020/programmkomitee.html) - Matthias Fischmann, Wire - Matthias Neubauer, SICK AG - Nicole Rauch, Softwareentwicklung und Entwicklungscoaching - Michael Sperber, Active Group - Stefan Wehr, Hochschule Offenburg Scientific Advisory Board - Annette Bieniusa, TU Kaiserslautern - Torsten Grust, Uni Tübingen - Peter Thiemann, Uni Freiburg

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Extended Deadline - Compiler Construction (CC) 2021
by Delphine Demange 08 Nov '20

08 Nov '20

ACM SIGPLAN 2021 International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2021) Co-located with CGO, HPCA and PPoPP Tue 2 - Wed 3 March 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/CC-2021 CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case. The abstract and full paper submission is now November 13, 2020. = IMPORTANT DATES = Abstract & Full Paper Submission: November 13, 2020 (EXTENDED) Author Response Period: December 7 - 9, 2020 Author Notification: December 22, 2020 Artifact Submission: January 5, 2021 AE Notification: January 20, 2021 Final Papers due: January 22, 2021 Conference: March 2 - 3, 2021 Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest which include, but are not limited to: - Compilation and interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; code generation, optimization, and synthesis; the verification thereof - Run-time techniques, including memory management, virtual machines, and dynamic and just-in-time compilation - Programming tools, including refactoring editors, checkers, verifiers, compilers, debuggers, and profilers - Techniques, ranging from programming languages to micro-architectural support, for specific domains such as secure, parallel, distributed, embedded or mobile environments - Design and implementation of novel language constructs, programming models, and domain-specific languages CC is an ACM SIGPLAN conference, and implements guidelines and procedures recommended by SIGPLAN (https://www.sigplan.org) Prospective authors should be aware of SIGPLAN’s Copyright policies. Proceedings will be made available online in the ACM digital library from one week before to one week after the conference. Full CfP: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/cc-research-papers ARTIFACT EVALUATION Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their artifacts for the Artifact Evaluation (AE). The Artifact Evaluation process begins after the acceptance notification, and is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. To ease the organization of the AE committee, we kindly ask authors to indicate at the time they submit the paper, whether they are interested in submitting an artifact. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged, but not required, to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as “source materials” in the ACM Digital Library. CC AE web page: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/research-artifacts ORGANIZERS General Chair: Aaron Smith - Microsoft / University of Edinburgh Program Chairs: Delphine Demange - Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA Rajiv Gupta - UC Riverside Artifact Evaluation Chairs: Bruno Bodin - Yale-NUS College Michel Steuwer - University of Glasgow Web Chair: Martin Lücke - University of Edinburgh Steering Committee: Björn Franke (Chair) - University of Edinburgh Jose Nelson Amaral - University of Alberta Christophe Dubach - University of Edinburgh Sebastian Hack - Saarland University Manuel Hermenegildo - IMDEA Software Institute and T.U. of Madrid (UPM) Alexandra Jimborean - University of Murcia Milind Kulkarni - Purdue University Louis-Noël Pouchet - Colorado State University Peng Wu - Futurewei Technologies Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Ayal Zaks - Intel Corporation and Technion Program Committee: Guillaume Baudart - IBM Research Walter Binder - University of Lugano Simone Campanoni - Northwestern University Albert Cohen - Google Caroline Collange - Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA Huimin Cui - Institute of Computing Technology, CAS Christophe Dubach - McGill University Benoît Dupont de Dinechin - Kalray Bernhard Egger - Seoul National University Christine Flood - Red Hat Laure Gonnord - University of Lyon and LIP Myoungsoo Jung - KAIST Andrew Kennedy - Facebook Dongyoon Lee - Stony Brook University Christian Lengauer - University of Passau Xavier Leroy - Collège de France and Inria Yun Liang - Peking University Toby Murray - University of Melbourne and Data61 Biswabandan Panda - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Santosh Pande - Georgia Tech Louis-Noël Pouchet - Colorado State University Gabriel Rodríguez - Universidade da Coruña Jan Vitek - Northeastern University Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Zhijia Zhao - UC Riverside

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Call for Workshop Proposals: ICFP 2021
by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS ICFP 2021 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming August 22 - 27, 2021 Daejon, Korea https://icfp21.sigplan.org/ The 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will be held in Daejon, Korea on August 22-27, 2021, with the possibility of a virtual conference. ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. Proposals are invited for workshops (and other co-located events, such as symposiums) to be affiliated with ICFP 2021 and sponsored by SIGPLAN. These events should be less formal and more focused than ICFP itself, include sessions that enable interaction among the attendees, and foster the exchange of new ideas. The preference is for one-day events, but other schedules can also be considered. The workshops are scheduled to occur on August 22rd (the day before ICFP) and 26-27th of August (the two days after ICFP). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: November 27, 2020 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2020 Prospective organizers of workshops or other co-located events are invited to submit a completed workshop proposal form in plain text format to the ICFP 2021 workshop co-chairs (Leonidas Lampropoulos and Zoe Paraskevopoulou) via email to icfp-workshops-2021(a)googlegroups.com by November 27, 2020. (For proposals of co-located events other than workshops, please fill in the workshop proposal form and just leave blank any sections that do not apply.) Please note that this is a firm deadline. Organizers will be notified if their event proposal is accepted by December 15, 2020, and if successful, depending on the event, they will be asked to produce a final report after the event has taken place that is suitable for publication in SIGPLAN Notices. The proposal form is available at: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2021-files/icfp21-workshops-form.txt Further information about SIGPLAN sponsorship is available at: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Proposals/Sponsored/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Selection committee The proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the ICFP 2021 organizing committee, together with the members of the SIGPLAN executive committee. Workshop Co-Chair: Zoe Paraskevopoulou (Northeastern University) Workshop Co-Chair: Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland) General Chair: Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST) Program Chair: Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any queries should be addressed to the workshop co-chairs (Zoe Paraskevopoulou and Leonidas Lampropoulos), via email to icfp-workshops-2021(a)googlegroups.com.

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Announcing the Haskell Foundation
by Richard Eisenberg 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

I'm very pleased to announce the creation of the Haskell Foundation (HF), an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to broadening Haskell adoption. Website: https://haskell.foundation/ <https://haskell.foundation/> Twitter: @haskellfound Founding whitepaper: https://haskell.foundation/whitepaper/ <https://haskell.foundation/whitepaper/> Simon Peyton Jones's announcement, with lots of Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEmRarBL9kw <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEmRarBL9kw> The "official" ask-me-anything on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jnwg7i/haskell_foundation_ama/ <https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jnwg7i/haskell_foundation_ama/> Mailing list for future HF announcements: https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hf-announce <https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hf-announce> Mailing list for HF discussion / involvement: https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hf-discuss <https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hf-discuss> Please join the conversation. We need your participation to realize the vision of the foundation as *our* foundation, not *their* foundation. Looking forward to seeing where this all leads! Richard

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for maintainers or comaintainers on my Haskell projects
by Michal J Gajda 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

Hi Chris., > If you want to take xeno and make it into a publishable package, please do so. We have offered to take over xeno over a year ago, and this offer still stands backed by me personally. Since I have made a few contributions, you may know that I would deliver here. To add me as maintainer on Hackage: MichalGajda To add me on GitHub: mgajda -- Cheers Michał

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Tomorrow: Simon PJ announces Haskell Foundation
by Richard Eisenberg 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Tomorrow (Wednesday Nov 4) at 12:00 UTC, Simon PJ will announce the formation of the Haskell Foundation, an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to broadening Haskell adoption. This will be a part of Haskell eXchange, but this announcement will be free to attend, via YouTube. Much of the presentation will be time for Q&A; questions can be posed both within the Haskell eXchange HopIn platform and via comments on YouTube. Attend at https://youtu.be/MEmRarBL9kw <https://youtu.be/MEmRarBL9kw> Just to forestall any disappointment: I won't be answering any questions here until at least after the announcement -- but do please come and ask questions there and afterwards. Richard

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Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts
by Graham Hutton 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Dear all, If you or one of your students recently completed a PhD in the area of functional programming, please submit the dissertation abstract for publication in JFP: simple process, no refereeing, open access, 200 published to date, deadline 30th November 2020. Please share! Best wishes, Graham Hutton ============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 30th November 2020 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year. As a service to the community, twice per year the Journal of Functional Programming publishes the abstracts from PhD dissertations completed during the previous year. The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall. They do not require any transfer of copyright, merely a license from the author. A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. The abstracts are not reviewed. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton <graham.hutton(a)nottingham.ac.uk> by 30th November 2020: o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 350 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting; if your original abstract exceeds the word limit, please submit an abridged version within the limit) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. JFP reserves the right to decline to publish abstracts that are not deemed appropriate. ============================================================ PHD ABSTRACT EDITOR: Graham Hutton School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom ============================================================ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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Hackage and searching for substrings
by Magnus Therning 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Just now I thought I'd check what kind of lib waargonaut is. Being lazy I typed "waarg" into the package search box and found nothing! Is there a way to make Hackage find waargonaut without having to type the full package name? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://magnus.therning.org/ It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. — Mark Twain

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Intention to take over the pipes-text package
by Peter J. Jones 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

(This is a re-post from October 6, 2020 since the original did not make it into the archive.) The pipes-text [1] package on Hackage hasn't been updated in about 4 years and doesn't currently build due to outdated `build-depends'. Patches have been supplied to the GitHub [2] repository but none have been merged. The last commit was on Dec 2, 2016. I have attempted to reach out to the author (Michael Thompson) to offer assistance and have not received any response. As per the instructions on the Haskell Wiki, I'm posting this message to signal my intent to take over the pipes-text package as a maintainer. I have a working fork here [3]. Michael, if you prefer to keep the package under your control I'm more than happy to help you manage the GitHub project and get some patches merged. Otherwise I'll reach out to the Hackage administrators after a reasonable amount of time has passed. [1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pipes-text [2]: https://github.com/michaelt/text-pipes [3]: https://github.com/pjones/pipes-text

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GHC-8.6.3 question.
by David Duke 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Dear colleagues I'm in the process of having to reinstall ghc-8.6.3 in order to use a library (gtk) where the last successful build is 8.6.3. I was able to do that on linux. However I'm now trying to repeat this under OSX. I couldn't find a binary version, so I've been trying to build from source- but i'm hitting an issue on 'make install': stage2/build/libHSghc-8.6.3_p.a: copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) I'm not seeing a stage2 directory in my build area, but I'm not seeing any earlier error messages so I'm unclear why the build is failing. If someone familiar with this release and/or th build process could suggest any causes or fixes that would be helpful. thanks, David Duke

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