On 24 Jul 2010, at 02:15, Tim Matthews wrote:

Any of the haskellers here from NZ?

I am in Wellington, Stephen is near Palmerston North. There are a few others elsewhere I think.

Are you using haskell in production, internally within your company or just outside of work in your own time?

I work on Leksah in my spare time.

In Aus they've got hackathons and user groups. Anything even remotely similar here in New Zealand?

The last couple of times I have visited my parents in (who live in Palmerston North), Stephen and I have got together for what we jokingly refer to as NZHac or the NZHUG. Our next trip to Palmy will be late August I think. There is an Erlang users group here in Wellington (organised by Lenz) and I attend when I can, there has not been a meeting in some time. It's really more of a FP group in a way as others that attending are not all Erlang users (but most use or would like to use a functional language of some sort). I think if we changed the name to the Wellington FP Users Group or something we might get more interest (especially if we catered to people interested in learning Scala and F#). Hamish