Re: [Haskell] Functional Programming User Group Ghent

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2010/2/21 Jeroen Janssen
Dear all, We are in the progress of starting up a Functional Programming User Group in Ghent. The basic idea of the group is to have occasional informal meetings where people can give talks, where we have invited speakers, where we go to a bar to chat about all things Functional Programming, to organize Haskell Hacking events etc. To see if enough people would be interested in such a group, and to make the organizing process of the first meeting easier, we would like to ask anyone interested to tick off the dates he/she is available on the Doodle-page provided below. Note that the indicated time is only a rough guideline; if you would prefer another time of day, you can indicate this in the Comments section of the Doodle. http://www.doodle.com/xq2i5hsueidwkh2f If enough people are interested, and a date is decided upon, we will e-mail the Haskell list once more to confirm the date and give anyone who was interested, but could not fill in the doodle, a chance to be present. Also, this ensures that you do not have to leave your e-mail address on Doodle. If you have any questions, do not hecessitate to contact one of us at either Bart.Coppens@UGent.be jejansse@gmail.com Kind Regards, Bart Coppens Jeroen Janssen
Hi Jeroen, Great, a fp user group in Belgium! Alas my dutch is too rusty too even understand the Doodle poll description. Is the group planned only for dutch-speaking programmers ? Cheers, Thu

On Monday 22 February 2010 08:59:44 minh thu wrote:
[moving to café from haskell]
2010/2/21 Jeroen Janssen
: Dear all, We are in the progress of starting up a Functional Programming User Group in Ghent. The basic idea of the group is to have occasional informal meetings where people can give talks, where we have invited speakers, where we go to a bar to chat about all things Functional Programming, to organize Haskell Hacking events etc. To see if enough people would be interested in such a group, and to make the organizing process of the first meeting easier, we would like to ask anyone interested to tick off the dates he/she is available on the Doodle-page provided below. Note that the indicated time is only a rough guideline; if you would prefer another time of day, you can indicate this in the Comments section of the Doodle. http://www.doodle.com/xq2i5hsueidwkh2f If enough people are interested, and a date is decided upon, we will e-mail the Haskell list once more to confirm the date and give anyone who was interested, but could not fill in the doodle, a chance to be present. Also, this ensures that you do not have to leave your e-mail address on Doodle. If you have any questions, do not hecessitate to contact one of us at either Bart.Coppens@UGent.be jejansse@gmail.com Kind Regards, Bart Coppens Jeroen Janssen
Hi Jeroen,
Great, a fp user group in Belgium! Alas my dutch is too rusty too even understand the Doodle poll description. Is the group planned only for dutch-speaking programmers ?
Hi Thu, We're not planning it as a strictly Dutch-speaking event, so you are more than welcome. I will update the Doodle so it is in English, my apologies! Kind Regards, Jeroen.

Great, a fp user group in Belgium! Alas my dutch is too rusty too even understand the Doodle poll description. Is the group planned only for dutch-speaking programmers ?
We're not planning it as a strictly Dutch-speaking event, so you are more than welcome. I will update the Doodle so it is in English, my apologies!
I think the Dutch Haskell Users Group [1] has met with great success by establishing English as the lingua franca from the beginning. My impressions are that we attract numerous foreign visitors (including university staff and students) and that we have not discouraged very many native Dutch speakers. Of course, being a foreigner who also has trouble with the local language, I admit being somewhat biased in this matter. Regards, Sean [1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Dutch_HUG

On 22-feb-2010, at 10:37, Sean Leather wrote:
I think the Dutch Haskell Users Group [1] has met with great success by establishing English as the lingua franca from the beginning. My impressions are that we attract numerous foreign visitors (including university staff and students) and that we have not discouraged very many native Dutch speakers. Of course, being a foreigner who also has trouble with the local language, I admit being somewhat biased in this matter.
Thanks for the input! Like I said, we're not really planning it as a Dutch-only group, thus maybe really proposing English as the lingua franca (unless no non-native speakers are not there) isn't such a bad idea. Regards, Jeroen.
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Jeroen Janssen
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minh thu
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Sean Leather