BA Haskell User Group meeting on February 20, 2013 (Wed)

[Ivan Tarasov]

It has been a while since we had a user group meeting (although the new year's eve walk around San Francisco was really pleasant, it probably does not count). The biggest issue currently is finding a convenient place where we can have our meetings, and somehow I couldn't find one so far. In fact, I'm still looking for a place for this meeting and working on a few options in SoMa (will post an update here), however if you have a suggestion of where to have it hosted, let me know!

This time we have a talk by Gershom Bazerman, who is visiting the Bay Area. Gershom will speak about JMacro, a library for the programmatic generation of JavaScript code. The JMacro library and quasiquoter has been integrated with hsx and Happstack, and been used as a backend for code generation targeting JavaScript, including in a branch of ghc-js. It also has a json-rpc and reactive library built on top of it. The talk will go over some of the features of JMacro, as well as the design decisions made in the course of the project, and some of the interesting tricks used in its implementation. It will also discuss some of the broader issues and approaches with integrating Haskell and JavaScript, and some of the debates over the use and abuse of quasiquotation.

I looked at JMacro quite a while ago and when I saw it I was quite amazed, it hadn't occurred to me that the things this library does were even possible. Now I will finally learn how it can be done.

Add this to your calendars (see this if you're using Google Calendar), and stay tuned for the venue update!

Cheers,

Ivan 

[Vlad Patryshev]

Thanks for the good news!

I wonder, is not it time to migrate to meetup, like everybody did? So convenient.

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[Ivan Tarasov]

Vlad,

We discussed meetup.com and other options at length here (check out the other posts in the same thread as well). My current biggest problems are not sending the announcement emails, though, but finding speakers and venues.

Regards,

Ivan

[Byron Hale]

If the location is TBA, San Francisco, there are two.

Topic sounds good.

Best regards,

Byron

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Ivan Tarasov <ivan.t...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Ian Zimmerman]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 21:42:46 -0800 (PST)
Ivan Tarasov <Ivan.T...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We discussed meetup.com and other options at length

> here<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bahaskell/2U7RXVB4F64/GVIAlYnPofYJ>

> (check out the other posts in the same thread as well). My current
> biggest problems are not sending the announcement emails, though, but
> finding speakers and venues.

I updated the Meetup page:

http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Haskell-Users-Group/events/22634121/

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