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ANN: New Haskell.org Committee Member
by George Wilson 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Following the nomination period and discussion, the Haskell.org committee has selected the following member for a new three-year term, expiring 2021: * Emily Pillmore As per the rules of the committee, this discussion was held among the current members of the committee, and the outgoing member of the committee who was not seeking reappointment. Thank you to all the many candidates who submitted a self-nomination. We received a number of strong nominations. We would encourage all those who nominated themselves to consider self-nominating again in the future. The outgoing member is Gershom Bazerman. He served not one but two terms for the Haskell.org committee, and he was chair during his last term. During this long period, Gershom has undeniably made the community a better place with his leadership and efforts. Thank you for your service! Since Gershom was our chair, the committee, including the new member, will hold a discussion and elect a new chair from amongst ourselves. Regards, George Wilson

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Call for Haskell.org Committee Nominations
by George Wilson 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Dear Haskellers, It is time to put out a call for new nominations (typically but not necessarily self-nominations) to the haskell.org committee. We have one member of our committee due for retirement -- our chair Gershom Bazerman. To nominate yourself, please send an email to committee at haskell.org by the 7th of January, 2019. 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. The Haskell.org committee serves as a board of directors for Haskell.org, a 501(c)3 nonprofit which oversees technical and financial resources related to Haskell community infrastructure. 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. We seek a broad representation from different segments of the Haskell world -- including but not limited to those focused on education, those focused on industrial applications, those with background in organizing users-groups, and those focused directly on our technical infrastructure. 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. Regards, George Wilson

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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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Archival of community.haskell.org
by Mario Rogic 19 May '18

19 May '18

Hi all As announced back in 2015 <http://blog.haskell.org/post/7/the_future_of_community.haskell.org/> we have started archiving community.haskell.org services. We've created https://archives.haskell.org/, and the old projects mailing lists have been the first to be archived. Next on the list is the remainder of projects.haskell.org, and the code.haskell.org site. As always, you can email admin(a)h.o or hop on the #haskell-infrastructure freenode channel to provide feedback / concerns. Thanks - Mario

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New Videos for Haskell.org Homepage
by Gershom B 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

I wanted to call people's attention to this PR: https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/pull/229 The videos are overdue for updating, and the suggestions look good to me, but a bit more feedback (even if just a flood of thumbs ups :-)) wouldn't hurt before pulling the trigger. -g

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Requesting review/feedback on GSoC Project Proposal
by Khilan Ravani 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Sir/Mam, I have uploaded the draft proposal on the Haskell organisation's GSoC page for the project "Enhancing the Haskell Image Processing Library/Package with State of the Art Algorithms" and would like to request you to kindly review the same. Thank you for your time and consideration, Yours sincerely, Khilan Ravani. On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:30 PM, <haskell-community-request(a)haskell.org> wrote: > Send Haskell-community mailing list submissions to > haskell-community(a)haskell.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > haskell-community-request(a)haskell.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > haskell-community-owner(a)haskell.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Haskell-community digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Requesting guidance for GSoC Project (Khilan Ravani) > 2. Re: Requesting guidance for GSoC Project (George Wilson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:45:56 +0530 > From: Khilan Ravani <khilanravani(a)gmail.com> > To: haskell-community(a)haskell.org > Cc: Jared Tobin <jared(a)jtobin.ca>, Alexey Kuleshevich > <lehins(a)yandex.com>, Alp Mestanogullari <alpmestan(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Haskell-community] Requesting guidance for GSoC Project > Message-ID: > <CABHvOV0VqN4+cVFPKi_gwG_o4URiBPbwDxkjdUNo3iG-xPnFhQ@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Sir/Mam, > > I am a sophomore student pursuing Computer Science and Engineering (C.S.E) > from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara. I am well adapt > with concepts of Deep Learning, Image Processing & AI and am currently > working on a few research topics in the same domain. I have adequate > experience in machine learning and Signal / Image processing (completed a > few deep learning based projects ) and am currently pursuing some research > problems in Satellite Imaging (Hyper-spectral data analysis) and processing > SAR images. > > Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologize to you for contacting you via > the mailing list this late. Please forgive me for misinterpreting the > process for new project ideas for participating in GSoC 2018 for Haskell > organization. Actually, I tried to communicate my interest for 'Summer of > Haskell' program (I was unaware at that time that it was only for years > when Haskell didn't participate in GSoC) to the general committee > (*committee(a)haskell.org > <committee(a)haskell.org>*) from where George Wilson sir directed me towards > Alp and Jared sir and then I got in touch with Alexey sir. > > The project that I aim to accomplish during the GSoC period is quite > straightforward. I plan to enhance the existing code base of Haskell Image > Processing (HIP) package with some new contemporary algorithms (with a few > state of the art ones). The current version of HIP package has a limited > scope and I plan to manifold the coverage of this library by adding various > algorithms from different classes of image processing in it. I have > discussed this project with Alp, Jared and Alexey sir of whom Alexey sir is > the author of the HIP package. Some algorithms which I plan to implement > include : > > 1) Adaptive Histogram Equalization (since Histogram is already implemented) > 2) Canny Edge Detection, Contour Extraction > 3) Hough transform > 4) Gabor filter > 5) Deconvolution > 6) Otsu Thresholding method > 7) Dithering (Floyd - Steinberg) > 8) Un - implemented filters (HOG, LOG etc.) > 9) Fingerprint (i.e Biometric) Detection. > > I feel that this project is doable within the summer period and that it can > be a great addition to the Haskell organization since firstly, It would > expand the scope of the library and increase the user base of Haskell and > secondly, no other functional programming languages (including Clojure, Elm > etc.) have a decent image processing library and hence it can be a very > good chance for Haskell to be an obvious choice of developers looking > forward to implement Computer vision problems with some functional > programming language. I have had an discussion with Alexey and Jared sir > and they seem to agree that this project can be a really good addition for > our Haskell organization. > > Also, for my technical skills : I do possess the required programming > skills (C++, OpenCV, Python, Haskell (Basics), Tensorflow, Keras (CUDA > framework), Watson API, Matlab) as well as the exposure to open source > platforms such as github. Also, I can provide you with my CV if and when > you say. > > I would be really delighted to know how you feel about this project. Once > again, I am very sorry for contacting this late via the mailing lists and > would like to sincerely request you to go through the project that I am > suggesting and kindly provide your valuable opinions on the same. > > I will happily provide you with further clarifications on the project if > you need any. > Looking forward to hear from you. > > Thank you, > Yours sincerely, > Khilan Ravani. >

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hackage redesign discussions
by Gershom B 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

If people want to participate there are now a space of design and ux-tickets on the hackage tracker. I've tried to tag them all with "discussion". https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues Hopefully I can collect small changes and make style-only update compound update proposal, that will be followed by a small style-only update to the main server. This is important because we want everything to be largely settled for the haddock release, to ensure that the final design of it meshes with what we iterate to on hackage: https://github.com/haskell/haddock/pull/721 -g

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