February 2016 - Haskell-community

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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Call for Haskell.org committee self-nominations
by John Wiegley 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Dear Haskellers, It is time to put out the call for new volunteers to the haskell.org committee. We have one member due for retirement since this past October: Gershom Bazerman. The committee would like to thank him for his excellent service. To nominate yourself, please send an email to committee at haskell.org by March 4, 2016. The retiring members are eligible to re-nominate themselves. Please feel free to include any information about yourself that you think will help us to make a decision. Being a member of the committee does not necessarily require a significant amount of time, but committee members should aim to be responsive during discussions when the committee is called upon to make a decision. Strong leadership, communication, and judgement are very important characteristics for committee members. The role is about setting policy, providing direction/guidance for Haskell.org infrastructure, planning for the long term, and being fiscally responsible with the Haskell.org funds (and donations). As overseers for policy regarding the open source side of Haskell, committee members must also be able to set aside personal or business related bias and make decisions with the good of the open source Haskell community in mind. More details about the committee's roles and responsibilities are on https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to e-mail us at committee at haskell.org, or contact one of us individually. Thank you, -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2

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Haskell.org Committee Financial Statement 2015
by Gershom B 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Dear Haskellers, The Haskell.org Committee [1] manages funds for haskell.org and oversees haskell.org infrastructure. The funds available to Haskell.org generally come from two sources: 1) Mentor payments from the Google Summer of Code program. 2) Since the end of 2013, occasional donations [2] from the Haskell community at large. Our funds are held by Software in the Public Interest, a 501(c)3 US non-profit, through which we also accept donations. In return for its services, SPI receives 5% of donations to Haskell.org. According to our charter, "Each year, the committee will post a statement of the haskell.org assets, and the transactions for that year." Included in this message is a brief statement of Haskell.org assets over the period 31 December 2014 - 31 December 2015. Note that our expenses are nearly entirely hosting, with a small overhead incurred by SPI and payment processing. The bulk of our income this year, over which we did minimal fundraising, is $7,000 in mentor payments from google summer of code 2014 (mentor payments for 2015 have not yet been received). Hosting fees are down from years past, as we have migrated more of our infrastructure away from Hetzner and to Rackspace, which donates to us free hosting. 1. Income and Expenses Total income over 2014: 7751.46 Total expenses over 2014: 892.03 ---- Net income over 2014: 6859.43 3. Total Balance Balance as of 31 December 2014: 26,422.91 Balance as of 31 December 2015: 33,547.34 Note: As of December 2015, we have a moved a large chunk of our balance out of the SPI-held account and to a new account set up directly under the control of Haskell.Org, as Haskell.Org is now registered as a nonprofit 501(c)(3). [1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee [2] https://wiki.haskell.org/Donate_to_Haskell.org Best, Gershom Bazerman for the Haskell.org Committee

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