Please consider submitting a talk proposal for the Haskell Implementers' Workshop. I'm pretty excited about this meeting - it promises to be a lively and enjoyable day. The deadline for submissions is a couple of weeks away, all you have to do is write an abstract: Call for Talks ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Implementers' Workshop http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaskellImplementorsWorkshop Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5, 2009 The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html Important dates Proposal Deadline: 15 June 2009 Notification: 3 July 2009 The Haskell Implementers Workshop is a new workshop to be held alongside ICFP 2009 this year in Edinburgh, Scotland. There will be no proceedings; it is an informal gathering of people involved in the design and development of Haskell implementations, tools, libraries, and supporting infrastructure. This new workshop reflects the growth of the user community: there is a clear need for a well-supported tool chain for the development, distribution, deployment, and configuration of Haskell software. The aim is for this workshop to give the people involved with building the infrastructure behind this ecosystem an opportunity to bat around ideas, share experiences, and ask for feedback from fellow experts. We intend the workshop to have an informal and interactive feel, with a flexible timetable and plenty of room for ad-hoc discussion, demos, and impromptu short talks. Scope and target audience ------------------------- We feel it's important to clearly distinguish the Haskell Implementers Workshop from the other Haskell-related workshops co-located with ICFP 2009. The Haskell Symposium is for the publication of Haskell-related research. In contrast, the Haskell Implementers' Workshop will have no proceedings - although we will aim to make slides and talk videos available with the consent of the speakers. DEFUN aims to teach how functional programming techniques can be applied in practice. In the Haskell Implementors' Workshop we hope to study the underlying technology that drives this application development. We want to bring together anyone interested in the nitty gritty details necessary to turn a text file into a deployed product. Having said that, members of the wider Haskell community are more than welcome to attend the workshop - we need your feedback to keep the Haskell ecosystem thriving. The scope covers any of the following topics (but there may be some we've missed, so by all means submit a proposal even if it doesn't fit exactly into one of these buckets): * Compilation techniques * Language features and extensions * Type system implementation * Concurrency and parallelism: language design and implementation * Performance, optimisation and benchmarking * Virtual machines and run-time systems * Libraries and Tools for development or deployment Talks ----- At this stage we'd like to invite proposals from potential speakers for a relatively short (20-30 min) talk. Please submit a talk title and abstract of no more than 200 words to simonmar@microsoft.com. We want to hear from people writing compilers, tools, or libraries, people with cool ideas for directions in which we should take the platform, proposals for new features to be implemented, and half-baked crazy ideas. We also plan to invite a number of speakers from the community. Organizers ---------- * Duncan Coutts - co-chair (Well-Typed LLP) * Atze Dijkstra (Utrecht University) * Roman Leshchinskiy (University of New South Wales) * Simon Marlow - co-chair (Microsoft Research) * Bryan O'Sullivan (Linden Lab) * Wouter Swierstra (Chalmers University of Technology)