
Hi all, Regrettably, I've decided to step down from the steering committee. My heart simply isn't in Haskell these days, and I'd prefer to give up my membership to someone more capable of doing good with it. For my replacement, I'd like to nominate Tom Harding and Chris Penner (both cc'd). I don't know of anyone else in the community who is as smart or dedicated as these two. Both have solid industrial credentials to help diversify the otherwise academic committee. The community at large would be very lucky to have either of them helping to steer. It's been an honour to serve with you all. Best, Sandy

Dear Sandy,
I’m very sorry to see you go. Thank you for your steady contribution to the Haskell community, and in particular to the GHC steering group.
Thanks too for your suggestions of Chris and Tom; that too is most helpful.
With thanks and warm good wishes
Simon
From: ghc-steering-committee

Hi, I too am sorry to see Sandy leave us again, I wish we had more of his contributions, which I found valuable. So it seems we have a slot to fill. Same procedure as last time? Or any tweaks wanted? This was the last announcement: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-steering-committee/2019-June/001121.h... Not sure if Christmas is the best time to ask for nominations. Or maybe it is precisely the best time? Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/

On Dec 10, 2019, at 11:21 PM, Joachim Breitner
wrote: So it seems we have a slot to fill. Same procedure as last time? Or any tweaks wanted?
I'm happy with the old process. I do think we should explicitly reach out to the two people that Sandy nominated, after the general call. Those two would then go through the same process as anyone else.
Not sure if Christmas is the best time to ask for nominations. Or maybe it is precisely the best time?
Hard to say. But if previous calls have not been at Christmas, then maybe a call at Christmas might reach different people. I don't think we should engineer around this... except perhaps to allow more time, not counting the week between Christmas and New Years. Richard

I think
* Same procedure as last time
* Give some extra time over Xmas
* Let's encourage the two that Sandy recommended to self-nominate,
or (even better) encourage Sandy to nominate them.
Simon
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Seconded; many thanks Sandy.
Simon
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 22:46, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee
Dear Sandy,
I’m very sorry to see you go. Thank you for your steady contribution to the Haskell community, and in particular to the GHC steering group.
Thanks too for your suggestions of Chris and Tom; that too is most helpful.
With thanks and warm good wishes
Simon
*From:* ghc-steering-committee
*On Behalf Of *Sandy Maguire *Sent:* 08 December 2019 05:43 *To:* Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee < ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org> *Cc:* christopher.penner@gmail.com; tomjharding@live.co.uk *Subject:* [ghc-steering-committee] Stepping down Hi all,
Regrettably, I've decided to step down from the steering committee. My heart simply isn't in Haskell these days, and I'd prefer to give up my membership to someone more capable of doing good with it.
For my replacement, I'd like to nominate Tom Harding and Chris Penner (both cc'd). I don't know of anyone else in the community who is as smart or dedicated as these two. Both have solid industrial credentials to help diversify the otherwise academic committee. The community at large would be very lucky to have either of them helping to steer.
It's been an honour to serve with you all.
Best,
Sandy _______________________________________________ ghc-steering-committee mailing list ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-steering-committee
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Joachim Breitner
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Richard Eisenberg
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Sandy Maguire
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Simon Marlow
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Simon Peyton Jones