Zürich Friends of Haskell

About us

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.

Become a member!

For members, we ask a yearly contribution of either:

giving at least one talk at the Zurich HaskellerZ meetup,
helping organize ZuriHac in an official role,
serving on the board of directors for the Zurich Friends of Haskell, or
providing other voluntary work asked for by the board of directors.

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.

HaskellerZ meetups

Teachers often resort to diagrams or other pedagogic devices to help explain how programs work. In computing education, these are called notional machines. But how can we know that a notional machine is indeed consistent with what it aims to represent? How can we know if it is sound? In this talk, we will show how we can use well-known techniques from programming language theory to reason about notional machines. With these tools, we can find inconsistencies in existing notional machines, propose solutions to fix them, and build notional machines that are sound by construction. And, of course, we will do it using Haskell. 🦥✨

As usual, there will be the opportunity for drinks and socializing after the talk.

ZuriHac

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.

Videos

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.

We have also collected the slides of the presentations in this repository. Unfortunately, the collection is currently incomplete.

Donations

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].

Bank transfer

IBAN: CH55 0900 0000 1500 0655 2
BIC: POFICHBEXXX
Account holder: Zurich Friends of Haskell, 6300 Zug, Switzerland
Please include "Donation" in the message field.

Credit card

We can also receive donations through SumUp (no account required), which supports major credit cards (2.5% processing fee).

Donate using SumUp here.