Zürich Friends of Haskell
The Zürich Friends of Haskell is a club founded to foster the worldwide knowledge of functional programming, and Haskell in particular. We organise meetups and events in the Zürich area.
The Zürich Friends of Haskell is a club founded to foster the worldwide knowledge of functional programming, and Haskell in particular. We organise meetups and events in the Zürich area.
The HaskellerZ meetup group has been around since 2011. After organising many meetups and events, in particular ZuriHac, which attracts people from all over the world, there was a need to formalise our group a bit more.
In the short term, this allows us to work together better with sponsors for ZuriHac. In the long term, however, we would like to guarantee the long-time success of a Zurich-based Haskell interest group, not dependent on one or two key volunteers.
The rules are set up so that we encourage non-monetary contributions (e.g. giving a talk). Of course, membership is optional and not required to attend any of our events.
For members, we ask a yearly contribution of either:
Occasionally, we reach out to our members with volunteering opportunities. Also, once a year we would send you an email to confirm and update the membership.
Tuesday 17 December, 08:10
This event will be a guest lecture given by Alex Drake for the Computer Science department at OST Rapperswil, which we are happy to announce has been opened to interested members of HaskellerZ.
This lecture introduces Nix, a system for purely functional software deployment, and its ecosystem.
The first part of the lecture examines its theoretical foundations, including its declarative model and immutable design, which set it apart from traditional systems.
The second part focuses on practical applications, demonstrating how Nix is used in real-world workflows, from development environments to CI/CD pipelines. No prior knowledge of Nix is required, though familiarity with Linux or OS concepts will be helpful.
Speaker bio: Alex has over a decade of experience making computers work for teams and projects of all sizes. As a champion of functional and declarative paradigms, he has managed to sneak Nix into both embedded systems and large-scale distributed projects. He is an organizer of international Haskell and Nix meetups, and likes to share his expertise while learning from the community. His mission: to make technology just a bit less frustrating for everyone.
The lecture will take place in the lecture theatre 3.008 at the OST campus in Rapperswil.
Our main yearly event is the organisation of ZuriHac, a yearly Haskell Hackathon that attracts over 300 attendees. It is probably one of the oldest and definitely the largest Haskell Hackathon currently in existence.
The first ZuriHac was organised in 2010 at the Zürich Google office by Johan Tibell and Christophe Poucet. Currently, we are organising it at the Rapperswil-Jona campus of OST, with the help of many Zürich Friends of Haskell members and volunteers.
We try to record all of our meetups and keynotes so Friends of Haskell who are not in the Zürich area can enjoy the content as well.
This playlist contains all our Haskell-related videos.
We have also collected the slides of the presentations in this repository. Unfortunately, the collection is currently incomplete.
Current board members of the Zürich Friends of Haskell association:
Past members:
All our events are free to participants. In order to cover our costs,
we accept individual donations as well as corporate sponsorships.
For more information about sponsorships, please contact us at
[email protected].
IBAN: CH55 0900 0000 1500 0655 2
BIC: POFICHBEXXX
Account holder: Zurich Friends of Haskell, 6300 Zug, Switzerland
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