Ricardo, The idea is great. There's a lot of haskellers in Brazil and, if we want to make Haskell the brazilian language of choice, as we all do, it's time to get together. However, I think just a mail group isn't going to do much. We already have two communities in Orkut, and the volume of communication is really low, people just prefer to exchange ideas in this list. What we need is to discuss great projects that could get brazilians involved in Haskell. Maybe a wiki would do better. For instance: I would love to do volunteer work in Telecentros, but all they have is OpenOffice classes. Wouldn't it be great if we could teach Haskell there? First we need to write good material, and then a few cool applications people would like to hack with - with variable names in Portuguese, of course, since ghc reads Unicode. We could also write some applications in Haskell that would be usefull for public services. I have a friend in Diadema's municipal office and he says there's a lot of people there doing volunteer work help using Ubuntu. What if we check what are the software needs of our public services and try to write stuff in Haskell that can be used there? I imagine something in the line of what is listed in 'www.softwarepublico.gov.br'. Also, we could help nice scientific projects in our Universities to get the utilities they need in Haskell. I think a wiki would be great to start exchanging good ideas on where we could use our efforts. Best luck. Conte comigo, Maurício
Thanks. I also put in that page a link pointing to the haskellers map in Frappr, in order to encourage new HUGs. I believe most of us are lazy enough (in the good Haskell way) to plot them in xearth ;-)
Hi brazilian haskellers,
How about trying to form a HUG-BR ? Maybe (...)