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Request for comment: New haskell.org download page
by John Wiegley 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

As mentioned earlier, I've been working on a draft version of the new Haskell download page in consultation with Simon PJ, Michael Snoyman, and Gershom Bazerman. The goal has been twofold: a) add stack as an explicit option, and b) add text to each option indicating clearly what it provides and where to get further help, so users can understand the options and make an informed choice. We've sought to keep the text factual, rather than imply that one option is "best" for any particular class of user, since opinions vary so widely on this point. At the following link, you'll find a draft version of the new page for comment: https://gist.github.com/jwiegley/153d968ddfc9046ee4c9 Hopefully it can go live on haskell.org next week, so please contribute your edits here, or by pull request. The goal is to explain each option so that people can make an informed decision. However, the order of presentation does imply that whatever comes first is "preferred" even if that is not the intent. The order currently given is HP, Stack, Minimal. Chris has already made a few points about changing this order, so let's continue that discussion and see where it leads us. Bear in mind that this is (hopefully) only an interim state. The plan is to add Stack to the Platform, and render the Platform minimal, which will consolidate this page down to a single, recommended download path. At the bottom of the gist are incomplete sections on third party libraries and alternate installation approaches. These have yet to be written. The hope is to resolve the top content first and sort the rest out after; however, ideas for that content is most welcome too. Thank you, John Wiegley

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by Gershom B 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Dear all, The Haskell.org committee held a board meeting on 10 November, where we approved a formal set of bylaws and conflict of interest policy. The resolution passed is available online at: https://wiki.haskell.org/wikiupload/9/9c/Haskell-org-board-res.pdf The purpose of this was to formalize our structure so as to operate properly as an incorporated nonprofit entity whose business is conducted in accordance with 501(c)(3) of the 1986 IRS code. We received a letter from the IRS on 10 December indicating that our exempt status has been approved. We have been, and remain, an associated project of Software in the Public Interest, a nonprofit association, which has held our assets for us. The desire to incorporate on our own was so as to be able to bring our resources under more direct control. We hope that this is an initial step in being able to be more active and responsive with regards to haskell.org resources. As a first step, a transfer of some of our funds held by the SPI has now been made to a direct haskell.org account. I intend to update the committee page on the wiki to reflect the changes to our structure: https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee Warm Regards, Gershom Bazerman, for the Haskell.org committee

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