We want Grace’s language design process to be as open as possible, and especially to involve people with interest and experience in programming language design. To this end, we plan to hold a series of informal workshops in 2011 to report progress, to discuss challenges, and hopefully to involve others to the project.

The first two workshops will be held in Europe & the UK in late February:

• Sunday 27th February, TU Darmstad
• Monday 28th February, Imperial College, London,

The main ideas of these workshops will be to:

• get feedback on the current language design
• help us planing in moving forwards
• find ways of involving more people in the project

From our point of view, the most important thing is feedback on the evolving design — what looks like it’s working well, what doesn’t, what’s missing, etc. (Yes, this does mean we will need to produce a draft design in good time before these workshops).

So, if you’re interested in the Grace project, and would like to come to one of these workshops, the please let us know by emailing James, kjx@ecs.vuw.ac.nz.