Excellent. BTW, more documented "Haskell for the Web" summaries/state of the art etc would be good. Some centralized community resource. -- Don jeremy:

Hello,

Sounds good to me. I am in the Chicago area and do Haskell-based web development all day, every day, using the Happstack platform.

I don't have much time to organize, but I would be able to attend meetings and give some presentations.

Personally, I would recommend using a facebook page as a means of communicating within the group. Facebook offers the following features:

1. a proven track record of allowing users to control their levels of privacy, and not spamming them. More information regarding privacy here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=privacy&query=site%3Awww.insidefacebook.com

2. many people already have accounts, and, if not, creating one is super easy

3. event calendar, invitations

4. free photo and video hosting

5. discussion boards

6. can be extended (free) via the Facebook API (in Haskell, I have a library I will be announcing soon).

7. Super easy to setup (less than 2 minutes). (Applications -> Ads and Pages -> Pages -> Create Page).

I would recommend a facebook page over a facebook group. I would

- jeremy

At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:13:37 -0500, Tom Tobin wrote:

...

There isn't a Chicago-area Haskell group, is there? If not, would anyone be interested in forming one? I used to run Chicago's Django (a Python web framework) group, but lost interest (and since I lived in the suburbs back then, got sick of the commute). Unlike Python, I'm still very much a beginner with Haskell, so I feel I'd be able to benefit quite a bit from picking the brains of more skilled users and cooperating with other beginners. My particular interests are web development (as that's my professional field) and multimedia organization (I'm working on a Haskell audio tagging library to help teach myself the language), but I'm open to learning just about anything. :-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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I and certainly some of my professors would be extremely interested in a Chicago HUG. Facebook sounds like a good idea, but I tend not to actually check facebook groups. They just aren't quite intrusive enough. :) Unfortunately (actually, quite fortunately), I'm in Budapest for the semester, so I can't participate in a very real way. I don't believe the professors who would be interested subscribe to Haskell Cafe, so I will pass any relevant info on. Cheers, Cory Jeremy Shaw wrote:

Hello,

Sounds good to me. I am in the Chicago area and do Haskell-based web development all day, every day, using the Happstack platform.

I don't have much time to organize, but I would be able to attend meetings and give some presentations.

Personally, I would recommend using a facebook page as a means of communicating within the group. Facebook offers the following features:

1. a proven track record of allowing users to control their levels of privacy, and not spamming them. More information regarding privacy here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=privacy&query=site%3Awww.insidefacebook.com

2. many people already have accounts, and, if not, creating one is super easy

3. event calendar, invitations

4. free photo and video hosting

5. discussion boards

6. can be extended (free) via the Facebook API (in Haskell, I have a library I will be announcing soon).

7. Super easy to setup (less than 2 minutes). (Applications -> Ads and Pages -> Pages -> Create Page).

I would recommend a facebook page over a facebook group. I would

- jeremy

At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:13:37 -0500, Tom Tobin wrote:

...

There isn't a Chicago-area Haskell group, is there? If not, would anyone be interested in forming one? I used to run Chicago's Django (a Python web framework) group, but lost interest (and since I lived in the suburbs back then, got sick of the commute). Unlike Python, I'm still very much a beginner with Haskell, so I feel I'd be able to benefit quite a bit from picking the brains of more skilled users and cooperating with other beginners. My particular interests are web development (as that's my professional field) and multimedia organization (I'm working on a Haskell audio tagging library to help teach myself the language), but I'm open to learning just about anything. :-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Jeremy Shaw wrote:

Personally, I would recommend using a facebook page as a means of communicating within the group.

Okay: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-IL/Chicago-Haskell-User-Group/11598959... I hope that's the correct public-facing link, since Facebook's administration interfaces are a bit confusing.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Jeremy Shaw wrote:

Or you can make me an admin, and I'll do it.

I did that; feel free to go ahead and dress up the page. ^_^ A logo somehow incorporating elements of the skyline into the new Haskell logo would be cute, if you (or anyone else) is artistically inclined.