I'm pleased to announce the September meeting of the Boston Area Haskell Users' Group. Based on the feedback from the meeting polls and the constraints of our speaker, the September meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, September 16th from 7pm - 9pm. I've decided to move the meeting time back half an hour since that seems closer to what we've ended up doing in practice. Like the past three 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). Based on the topic poll, our featured speaker will be Edward Kmett, who will be presenting the second part of his monoids and parsing presentation: "A Parallel Parsing Trifecta: Iteratees, Parsec, and Monoids". Edward's slides from August are here: http://comonad.com/reader/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/IntroductionToMonoids.p... I'd recommend looking at them if you weren't at the August meeting (or want a refresher on the material) since the two parts of his presentation were originally designed to go concurrently. There's also a preview of the September presentation as part of this post on Edward's blog: http://comonad.com/reader/2009/iteratees-parsec-and-monoid/ We don't have any other presenters for September, so there are still openings for Lightning Talks or other relevant announcements / advertisements. If you're interested in one of those openings or in presenting something (large or small) at a future meeting, please let me know as we're still very hungry for content overall. The September attendance poll is at: http://doodle.com/gew97steggwhrnue As always, 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, so my wife can scale her baking of goodies appropriately. 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 September meeting! Thank you, - Ravi Nanavati