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From: Janis Voigtlaender <voigt@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de>
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Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe,gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general
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Subject: Call for Contributions - Haskell Communities and
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Activities Report, May 2009 edition
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:08:49 +0200
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Organization: Dresden University of Technology
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Dear Haskellers,
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so much has happened in the Haskell world in the past months.
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Therefore, I would very much like to collect contributions for
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the 16th edition of the
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================================================================
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Haskell Communities & Activities Report
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http://www.haskell.org/communities/
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Submission deadline: 1 May 2009
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(please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org,
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in plain text or LaTeX format)
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================================================================
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This is the short story:
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* If you are working on any project that is in some way related
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to Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if
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the project is very small or unfinished or you think it is not
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important enough -- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!
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* If you are interested in any project related to Haskell that has not
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previously been mentioned in the HC&A Report, please tell me, so that
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I can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an entry.
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* Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that
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might be interested.
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More detailed information:
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The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of
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the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the
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last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently
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been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the
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November 2008 edition -- you will find interesting topics described as
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well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to
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many questions.
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Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They
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will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online
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as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to
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update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new
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projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to
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know about!
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Looking forward to your contributions,
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Janis (current editor)
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FAQ:
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Q: What format should I write in?
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A: The required format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template
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that is available at:
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http://haskell.org/communities/05-2009/template.tex
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There is also a LaTeX style file at
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http://haskell.org/communities/05-2009/hcar.sty
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that you can use to preview your entry. If you do not know LaTeX, then
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use plain text. If you modify an old entry that you have written for an
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earlier edition of the report, you should receive your old entry as a
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template soon (provided I have your valid email address). Please modify
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that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as a
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template.
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Q: Can I include images?
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A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg format, then.
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Q: How much should I write?
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A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. This
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corresponds to approximately one page, or 40 lines of text, with the
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above style and template.
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A general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on
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recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be given
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for more comprehensive or ``historic'' overviews of a project. Images do
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not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use this
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opportunity to pep entries up. There is no minimum length of an entry!
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The report aims at being as complete as possible, so please consider
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writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long.
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Q: Which topics are relevant?
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A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant. We
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usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or
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commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to
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Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on
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language extensions or variants. We also like reports over distributions
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of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and tutorials on
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Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to Haskell are also
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relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do not even think about.
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As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it probably is relevant and has a
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place in the HCAR. You can also ask the editor.
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Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant?
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A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently
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working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might help
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you. You can use it to write ``wishlist'' items for libraries and
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language features you would like to see implemented.
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Q: If I do not update my entry, but want to keep it in the report, what
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should I do?
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A: Tell the editor that there are no changes. The old entry will be
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reused in this case, but it might be dropped if it is older than a year,
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to give more room and more attention to projects that change a lot.
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Do not resend complete entries if you have not changed them.
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--
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Dr. Janis Voigtlaender
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http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~voigt/
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mailto:voigt@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de
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