Excellent. BTW, more documented "Haskell for the Web" summaries/state of the art etc would be good. Some centralized community resource.
-- Don jeremy: > Hello, > > Sounds good to me. I am in the Chicago area and do Haskell-based web > development all day, every day, using the Happstack platform. > > I don't have much time to organize, but I would be able to attend > meetings and give some presentations. > > Personally, I would recommend using a facebook page as a means of > communicating within the group. Facebook offers the following features: > > 1. a proven track record of allowing users to control their levels of > privacy, and not spamming them. More information regarding privacy > here: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=privacy&query=site%3Awww.insidefacebook.com > > 2. many people already have accounts, and, if not, creating one is super easy > > 3. event calendar, invitations > > 4. free photo and video hosting > > 5. discussion boards > > 6. can be extended (free) via the Facebook API (in Haskell, I have a > library I will be announcing soon). > > 7. Super easy to setup (less than 2 minutes). (Applications -> Ads and Pages > -> Pages -> Create Page). > > I would recommend a facebook page over a facebook group. I would > > - jeremy > > At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:13:37 -0500, > Tom Tobin wrote: > > > > There isn't a Chicago-area Haskell group, is there? If not, would > > anyone be interested in forming one? I used to run Chicago's Django > > (a Python web framework) group, but lost interest (and since I lived > > in the suburbs back then, got sick of the commute). Unlike Python, > > I'm still very much a beginner with Haskell, so I feel I'd be able to > > benefit quite a bit from picking the brains of more skilled users and > > cooperating with other beginners. My particular interests are web > > development (as that's my professional field) and multimedia > > organization (I'm working on a Haskell audio tagging library to help > > teach myself the language), but I'm open to learning just about > > anything. :-) > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
