Hello all, We are glad to invite you to our 9th GhentFPG [1] meeting, which takes place on Thursday, the 4th of October, 2011 at 19:30 in the Technicum building of Ghent University. You do not have to be a Functional Programming guru to attend, everyone eager to learn is welcome. As before, the electronic sliding doors will be locked, but a phone number that you can call to get in will be provided at the doors on the far left of the building. The program is as follows: First, we will have a talk by Jurriën Stutterheim, from Utrecht: Snap Framework [2] is a relatively young, but very promising and already quite popular Haskell web framework. Its upcoming 0.6 release has seen a major redesign in the way you write (reusable) components for the framework using so-called snaplets. In this talk, we will look at how you can write snaplets and how you can put them together to create modular web applications. Then, we will have a number of lightning talks in which the following projects are presented: - hCole-server [3], a web interface to a framework for compiler optimizations (Andy Georges); - GA [4], a library to write genetic algorithms in Haskell (Kenneth Hoste); - websockets [5], a Haskell library for writing WebSocket-capable servers (Jasper Van der Jeugt). If you would also like to give a lightning talk (15 mins), please contact us and we will add you to this list. Afterwards, we will have some drinks at a local bar. [1]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Ghent_Functional_Programming_Group [2]: http://snapframework.com/ [3]: http://github.com/itkovian/hcole-server [4]: http://github.com/boegel/GA [5]: http://github.com/jaspervdj/websockets Hoping to see you there, The GhentFPG organizing commitee