April Meeting Notes

[Seth Dutcher]

Haskell MN - 4/11/17

We spent a hearty amount of our time this month discussing the vision for the group, setting short-term goals (like where and when to meet next), and generally getting to know one another. In the view of this attendee, the time was well-spent. Darren demoed a great project he's working on which will surely be influencing the world of electronic music for generations to come.

Below are the notes I took, Please edit as needed.

attendees

  mikey  joe

  ---- ----

 |    |    | trevor

  ---- ----   

chris seth darren

(those boxes are the two tables)

to-dos

- link google group to meetup (mikey) done!

- send notes to group (seth) done!

- research venues (trevor, seth) 

communication

- google group (discussions, topics)

- meetup (event details)

- slack/irc (tbd, as needed)

space requirements

- presentations

- size (8-10)

- in Minneapolis or St. Paul

space options

- hacker space

- library

- lead pages

things we could do

- hack night

- remote pair programming

- presentations (subjects: lenses, quickcheck, monad transformers)

- videos

- blog posts

- code reviews

- dev box setup

- homework (every one read a paper, or read up on a topic)

- go to other meetups to talk about Haskell, or similar languages (like talking to JS devs about PureScript, Elm, TypeScript)

resources

- Haskell from First Principles

[Alex Berg]

I think having a timeslot for showing examples of some Haskell thing that members recently learned is a maintainable thing. Should be like 5-10 minutes to share your thing and discuss. Is PureScript OK to discuss? Because that's where I'm spending all my time recently.

[Michael Hoy]

Seth, excellent notes, thanks for that!

Alex Berg <alex.d...@gmail.com> writes:

> Is PureScript OK to discuss? Because that's where I'm spending all my
> time recently.

Alex, purescript is definitely OK! I think there are quite a few people
interested in Purescript/Elm/ghcjs/etc.

Mikey