Dutch HUG on Thursday (and a note about August)

[Sean Leather]

We have two speakers planned:

* Jasper Van der Jeugt brings forth his Belgian ideas and experiences on optimizing code in the context of his Google Summer of Code project to convert the 'text' library's underlying representation from UTF-16 to UTF-8.

* Our own Stefan Holdermans explains his work in progress to conveniently represent polymorphic types in dynamic values.

Time: 19:00

Location: BBL 079 - http://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/reach/bbl.php

As usual, we'll adjourn to utrecht.thebasket.nl afterwards.

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NOTE! I will be out of town the first half of August. Would anybody like to plan a meeting for that month? Otherwise, I think we'll skip it.

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Sean (who avoids glaring errors in the date by omitting it)

[Andres Loeh]

Hi.

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> NOTE! I will be out of town the first half of August. Would anybody like to
> plan a meeting for that month? Otherwise, I think we'll skip it.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the second half of August, the summer school will take place at UU.
So, assuming we'd have a meeting then, there would be a potential for
a significant number of additional participants (and it would give me
the opportunity to participate in a Dutch HUG meeting again after a
long time).

Cheers,
Andres

[Sean Leather]

Hi Andres,

I think that's a great idea! Would you consider making this an optional (but perhaps encouraged) event for the summer school students? Continuing along that line, if we scheduled it towards the end of the month -- say Thursday, 25 August -- do you think one or two of the students might want to give talks on their projects?

Regards,

Sean

[Andres Loeh]

Hi.

>> In the second half of August, the summer school will take place at UU.
>> So, assuming we'd have a meeting then, there would be a potential for
>> a significant number of additional participants (and it would give me
>> the opportunity to participate in a Dutch HUG meeting again after a
>> long time).
>
> I think that's a great idea! Would you consider making this an optional (but
> perhaps encouraged) event for the summer school students?

Yes, that would be my plan then. I'd advertise it, but say that it's
optional. Probably quite a few, but not all, would go.

> Continuing along
> that line, if we scheduled it towards the end of the month -- say Thursday,
> 25 August -- do you think one or two of the students might want to give
> talks on their projects?

I'd rather not plan for something like that. While it is quite
possible, it's hard to say in advance. In the past years, my
impression was that most of the students have not all that much
experience in presenting, so they're already quite nervous presenting
their projects to the other summer school participants. I don't know
if there will be any who would like to present stuff to an even larger
group.

Cheers,
Andres