November 2018 - Haskell-community

2018 state of Haskell survey results
by Taylor Fausak 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hello! It took a little longer than I expected, but I am nearly ready to announce the 2018 state of Haskell survey results. Some community members have expressed interest in seeing the announcement post before it's published. If you are one of those people, you can see the results here: https://github.com/tfausak/tfausak.github.io/blob/7e4937e284a3068add9e9af6b… If you would like to suggest changes to the announcement post, please respond to this email, send me an email directly, or reply to this pull request on GitHub: https://github.com/tfausak/tfausak.github.io/pull/148 I plan on publishing the results tomorrow. Once the results are published, the post is by no means set in stone. I will happily accept suggestions from anyone at any time. Thank you!

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Creating a new @haskell.org mailing list?
by Chris Smith 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

Hey, Is there a process to request a new mailing list on the haskell.org domain? Here's my use case. About 25 Haskell programmers met at ICFP to discuss uses of Haskell in K-12 education (for non-US readers, that means before university). I'm also in touch with another half-dozen people who either have done, or are doing, something pre-university with Haskell, but could not be at ICFP. The main result of our conversation was that we wanted a common place to discuss, report on our experiences, look for productive collaborations and common threads, etc. There are already a few project-specific places, e.g. the codeworld-discuss mailing list for my own project, but we were explicitly looking for something general-purpose and universal. It would be great if this could be, say, "k12(a)haskell.org" or something like that. I'm pretty open in terms of how we'd administer the list. I'm willing to do the work of handling obvious spam bots and things like that. If there's a feeling we'd need something more than that, then let's have that discussion. We explicitly don't want a strict topicality enforcement, though. For example, several people who attended the dinner at ICFP were also interested in functional programming for non-majors at the university level, or were using Elm and other Haskell-like languages - even a few people from the Racket community. I'd hope to rely on the name of the mailing list to keep things a bit focused, but not really police it at all. Thoughts? Thanks, Chris Smith

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New curious user contribution
by Nitin Naidu 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hi there! I'm Nitin. I wish to contribute in Haskell project. I am a little lost here. Any suggestions where I can start? Regards, Nitin Naidu

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2018 state of Haskell survey
by Taylor Fausak 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

(I have CCed <committee(a)haskell.org> because the haskell-community mailing list seems relatively quiet and I want to make sure this is seen.) Hello! My name is Taylor Fausak. I run the Haskell Weekly newsletter. Last year I published a survey [1] for the Haskell community. I collected and reported [2] on about 1,335 responses. I plan on publishing another survey this year on the same date, November 1st. I am developing it in the open again [3] and would love to hear from any interested parties. Please let me know if you have any ideas about the survey! This year I am interested in making the survey official by seeking support from Haskell.org. Is such a thing possible and desirable? Thanks for your consideration! I hope to hear from you soon. [1]: https://haskellweekly.news/surveys/2017.html [2]: https://taylor.fausak.me/2017/11/15/2017-state-of-haskell-survey-results/ [3]: https://github.com/haskellweekly/haskellweekly.github.io/issues/206

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