Dear Haskellers,

In recent years, submissions to the Haskell Symposium have dropped precipitously: from 37 in 2017 to just 15 in 2023.  This has made it increasingly challenging for the program committee to put together a program that is vibrant and intellectually rigorous.

The Haskell Symposium steering committee has developed two proposals to reinvigorate the Symposium.  The first is to invite a new category of presentations of work-in-progress results; the second is to submit accepted papers to the Journal of Functional Programming for publication rather than continuing the Symposium's proceedings.

A full description of the proposed changes can be found on the Haskell Foundation's GitHub: https://github.com/haskellfoundation/tech-proposals/pull/62.  We invite feedback from the community, particularly on how these changes would effect your participation (either as authors or attendees) in the future.

Yours,
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J. Garrett Morris
PC Co-chair, 2024 Haskell Symposium
For the Haskell Symposium Steering Committee