On 18/11/2013, at 11:12 AM, Tony Morris wrote:
Hello, I am from Brisbane, Australia and it is my mission to teach functional programming to all and especially Australia. I am tasked with this mission by my employer, NICTA, which is funded by the Australia government.
With support from NICTA, I usually run (free) courses to assist in this mission and have done so in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. However, I often wonder about any interest in Canberra. I do not find any user interest groups related to Functional Programming or language-specific such as Haskell when I search, so I was hoping to seek out any expressions of interest here.
Are any of you from Canberra? If so, are you interested in learning more about functional programming? Would you be interested in attending a 2 or 3 day workshop? Do you have peers who would also be interested? If these people exist, how might I contact them?
I am from Canberra originally. On the academic side, talk to: Clem Baker-Finch -- teaches programming languages at ANU. http://people.cecs.anu.edu.au/user/3877 http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP3610/ Uwe Zimmer -- teaches first year programming in Haskell at ANU. https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/zimmer-ur http://cs.anu.edu.au/student/comp1100/index.html Also anyone who is tutoring for them. There are also FP people in the RSISE/NICTA lab, but they are more experienced researchers that don't need the basics of functional programming taught to them. Eg: Michael Norrish -- is associated with the L4 verified project here in Sydney. http://nicta.com.au/people/norrishm At one time Alex Mason was organising some FP events from Canberra, but I haven't heard anything about him for a year or more. I suspect he's graduated by now (was an undergrad at ANU). Ben.