I'm pleased to announce the August meeting of the Boston Area Haskell Users' Group. Based on the feedback from the July meeting and the constraints of our speakers, the August meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, August 18th from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Like the past two meetings, it will be held in the MIT CSAIL Reading Room (32-G882, i.e. a room on the 8th floor of the Gates Tower of the MIT's Stata Center at 32 Vassar St in Cambridge, MA). We're making a slight departure from our meeting format this month. Our featured speaker will be Edward Kmett, who will be sharing a two-part presentation focusing on monoids and parsing. The first part of Edward's presentation is titled "Introduction to Monoids". After the first part of Edward's presentation, Shae Erisson will be presenting short overview of Haskell and emacs integration. Following Shae, Paul Chiusano will be talking briefly about functional programming opportunities at ClariFI (the job advertisement he recently posted to the BostonHaskell list). Paul is planning to be available to talk to anyone interested during our customary break. As you might guess, there isn't really room for Lightning Talks or other advertisements in August, but please feel free to contact me if you have something you'd like to talk about at a future meeting (since we're still very hungry for content for future meetings). After the break, Edward will be picking up with the second part of his presentation: "A Parallel Parsing Trifecta: Iteratees, Parsec, and Monoids". We're trying a new attendance poll this month: http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=x8rbbbprtezdtaan As before, responding to this poll will help with two things: 1. Getting an idea of what fraction of the Boston-area Haskell community can and can't attend this meeting (to help with future scheduling). 2. Giving me an estimated count of attendees, since I have talked my wife into baking some more goodies and bringing drinks again. Sponsorship of or other assistance with refreshments is still being eagerly solicited. I'm also still having trouble embedding this poll in a page on our Google Group, so if anyone has any ideas about that, please feel free to try (any group member can edit pages) and/or offer other assistance or suggestions. If you have any questions about the meeting please send them to the BostonHaskell mailing list: bostonhaskell@googlegroups.com or contact me directly. I look forward to seeing many Boston-area Haskellers at the August meeting! Thank you, - Ravi Nanavati