Dear fellow Haskellers, just about six months ago, the first edition of the HC&A Report was released, with the goal of helping to improve the communication between the various groups, projects, and individuals working on or with Haskell. The idea of these reports is simple: Every six months, a call goes out to all of you to contribute brief summaries of your own area of work. I then collect all these into a single report and feed it back to this very mailing list. Over the last few weeks, a lot of you have responded (eagerly, unprompted, and well in time for the deadline;-) to the call for contributions to the second edition of this report, and after the usual delays, I'm happy to announce that the Haskell Communities and Activities Report (2nd edition) is now available from the Haskell Communities home page http://www.haskell.org/communities/ The report is available for download in PDF (with working links and index, yet printable) or, for those who have problems with the PDF, in HTML (using John's secret weapon, thanks again) and Postscript. A big thanks here to everyone who contributed information to the report! I hope you will find it as interesting to read as we did. And when we try for the next update in six months, you might want to add your own work, project, research area or group as well. So, please, put that item for October 2002 into your diary now!-) Enjoy (and communicate;-)! Claus Reinke -- Computing Laboratory University of Kent at Canterbury http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/