---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ravi Nanavati Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:07 PM Subject: [BostonHaskell] Next meeting: October 21st at MIT (32G-882) To: bostonhaskell@googlegroups.com I'm pleased to announce the October meeting of the Boston Area Haskell Users' Group. Based on the feedback from the meeting polls and the constraints of our speakers, the October meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 21st from 7pm - 9pm. 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 (and because he volunteered), our first speaker will be Brian Sniffen with an introduction to Parsec. Following his presentation will be our traditional break (with the now-traditional baked goods). Our second speaker will be Edward Kmett, who will be picking up the part of his monoids and parsing presentation that we didn't get to in August or September (third time's the charm!): "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 designed to go concurrently. There's also a preview of the presentation as part of this post on Edward's blog: http://comonad.com/reader/2009/iteratees-parsec-and-monoid/ The October attendance poll is at: http://doodle.com/u7762nfxpghsrn2r 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, since I have talked my wife into baking some more goodies and bringing drinks again. Helping with BostonHaskell (besides volunteering to speak at future meetings): 1. Sponsorship of refreshments is still being eagerly solicited. 2. Please let me know if you're willing to arrive early (6:30pm) to help me move refreshments from my car. Based on past experience, I could use 3-4 volunteers. 3. Please let me know if you're willing to arrive early (6:30pm) to stand by the door and let people into the 8th floor. I'm guessing 1 or 2 volunteers is enough here. 4. If someone is willing to edit the HaskellWiki page, post to reddit or otherwise publicize the meeting please just go ahead and do that (especially as I'm sending this out a bit later than intended). 5. 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 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 October meeting! Thank you,  - Ravi Nanavati --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BostonHaskell" group. To post to this group, send email to bostonhaskell@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bostonhaskell+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bostonhaskell?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---