Re: Mirage weekly call - today at 1600 BST

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 Jun 2013, at 15:27, Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> 
> On 4 Jun 2013, at 15:13, Amir Chaudhry wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks, this is a reminder of the Mirage weekly call.  From today at 4pm 
>> (BST) - call details are below.
> 
> unfortunately can't make it today - exam marking.
> 
> fwiw i've been trying to spend time on two things:
> 
> 1/ mirage-on-nixos as a potentially convenient way to distribute mirage apps 
> for use by non-expert-users or in situations where xen unavailable. have 
> built a nixos vbox image with opam etc, now working on getting the correct 
> configuration automated and checking mirage works (i'm assuming that once 
> opam is there, it's all over bar the shouting :)  once that's up i'll turn it 
> into an AMI. hopefully by the end of the week.  
> <https://github.com/mor1/mirage-nixos>

Very much looking forward to this! It turns out there's already an OPAM package 
for NixOS too, so we should be able to ask for help if necessary.

> 
> 2/ froctal -- started trying to document what i've been thinking about. 
> hopefully i'll ping the list with something also before the end of the week 
> so you can all tell me how misguided i am. <https://github.com/mor1/froctal>

And this... an interesting paper I ran into recently is on Elm and its use of 
FRP.

http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~chong/pubs/pldi13-elm.pdf

-anil