Functional Programming Sydney

• We are a seminar and social group for people in Sydney, Australia interested in Functional Programming.
• We're interested in Clean, Erlang, F#, Haskell, LISP, Mercury, Ocaml, Scala, Scheme, and more.
• We also have a contingent interested in theorem provers such as Coq and Isabelle.
• Meetings usually held on the fourth Wednesday of each month.
• The first meeting took place in February 2008 and we regularly get 20-30 attendees.
• Anyone who is interested is welcome to come along.

Related Australasian Groups and Hacker-friendly Events

• ​Brisbane Functional Programming Group
• ​Melbourne Functional Programming Union
• ​Perth Functional Programming Meetup
• ​Wellington Functional Programming UG
• more...

More Information

• Members
• Programme Setup
• Past meetings: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
• ​File storage for logos, past talks, etc.
• See ​FP-Syd Google Group for questions, venue information, and to get an account on this wiki.

Program (2016)

FP-Syd is held on the fourth Wednesday of each month.

This is a DRAFT schedule. The people assigned to months are free to swap around with others. We can also schedule short talks (15-20 mins) on the fly if you have something interesting to talk about. Email benl at ouroborus.net or erik.de.castro.lopo and we'll slot you in.

24th February

• Manuel Chakravarty: FP principles in GUI programming in Swift.
• Conrad Parker: ​FPGA Design with CλaSH
• Mark Greenway: How I learned to stop worrying and love the floating point numbers.

23rd March

• Ben Lippmeier
• Barry Jay
• Rob Everest

25th April (Monday!)

This month's meeting moved forward to avoid clash with LambdaJam.

• Ivan Miljenovic
• Jost Berthold
• Tim Gilchrist

25th May

• Jacob Stanley
• Tran Ma
• Sam Reis
• Sharif Olorin

22nd June

• Coq Fight Night

27th July

• Conrad Parker
• Tim Docker
• Tran Ma

24th August

• Sean Seefried
• Amos Robinson
• Mark Bradley

28th September

• Tom Sutton
• Louis Pan
• Yutaka Nagashima

26th October

• Erik de Castro Lopo
• Matt Delves
• Rob Howard

23rd November

• Mathew Brecknell
• Patryk Zadarnowski
• Jed Wesley-Smith