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Mailing list request for DataHaskell
by Marco Zocca 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

(previously sent to haskell-cafe, apologies for the repetition) Dear all, I write on behalf of DataHaskell [0, 1], an open source community devoted to data science, scientific computing and machine learning. We would like haskell.org to host a mailing list for our community, to archive discussions that might otherwise get lost on the Gitter chatroom [2]. With this email I'd also like to extend the invitation to join to all interested people and companies. Thank you and kind regards, Marco Zocca (https://github.com/ocramz) [0] datahaskell.org [1] github.com/DataHaskell [2] https://gitter.im/dataHaskell/Lobby

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Haskell.org committee financial statement 2016
by Gershom B 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Dear Haskellers, The Haskell.org Committee [1] manages funds for haskell.org and oversees haskell.org infrastructure. The funds available to Haskell.org have historically come from two sources: 1) Mentor payments from the Google Summer of Code program. 2) Donations [2] from the Haskell community at large. Haskell.org is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit. A portion of our funds are held by Software in the Public Interest, also a 501(c)3 US non-profit, through which we also accept donations. In 2016 we were not accepted into the GSoC program, and ran a summer of haskell program along similar lines, funded by earmarked donations provided by individual and corporate sponsors and from our pool of general funds. A full list of sponsors is on the soh webpage [3]. 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 1 December 2015 - 31 December 2016. Aside from the SOH disbursements, our expenses are nearly entirely hosting, with a small overhead incurred by payment processing. SOH thus accounts for both our increased revenue (in the form of earmarked donations) and expenses this year. We do not have full statements from our SPI account yet, as their treasury reports are only complete through october at this time [4] although I hope that will be changed shortly. So this statement is produced as though the income and expenses on our spi account for the last for months of 2016 were net zero, though that was obviously not the case. Even in this incomplete state, I think it is better to provide this than nothing. Additionally, as this covers holdings in our haskell.org bank account, it does not reflect when funds received via paypal donations, are received by paypal, but rather when the lump sum transfers from them are received by us. So paypal donations made in December 2016, for example, will likely be reflected in our 2017 statement. A portion of the income in 2016 is also attributable to gsoc mentor payment from our participation in the 2015 program. Thanks to many generous donations, despite the substantial haskell summer of code expenditures, we are nonetheless net-positive in income (though the difference just about amounts to the outstanding gsoc payments from 2015). We hope to find good opportunity to put our reserves to use again in the coming year. 1. Income and Expenses Total revenue over 2016: 54,802.56 Total expenses over 2016: 48,344.05 ---- Net income over 2016: 6,458.51 2. Total Balance Balance as of 31 December 2015: 32,882.34 Balance as of 31 December 2016: 39,340.85 [1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee [2] https://wiki.haskell.org/Donate_to_Haskell.org [3] https://summer.haskell.org/ [5] http://spi-inc.org/treasurer/reports/ Best, Gershom for the Haskell.org Committee

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ANN: New Haskell.org Committee Members
by Gershom B 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

Following the self-nomination period and discussion, the Haskell.org committee has selected new members: Full term: * Mitsutoshi Aoe * Jasper Van der Jeugt * Niki Vazou Short term: * Alan Zimmerman As per the rules of the committee, this discussion was held among the current members of the committee, and the outgoing members of the committee who were not seeking reappointment. Thank you to all the many candidates who submitted a self-nomination. We recieved many strong nominations, from a broad range of geographies and backgrounds. The choice amongst them was not easy, and we would encourage all those who nominated themselves to consider self-nominating again in the future. The outgoing members are: Adam Foltzer, Edward Kmett, Andres Loeh, and Nicolas Wu. Thanks all for your service! These are tough shoes to fill, but I have confidence that our incoming members will more than rise to the occasion. Cheers, Gershom

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Summer of Haskell 2016 Wrap-Up
by Gershom B 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

We wanted to let folks know what happened with all our Summer of Haskell projects, and thank again all those who donated as individuals or sponsored students to make this possible. As a reminder, the accepted projects were announced on reddit at: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4kp6zg/summer_of_haskell_2016_acc… * * * 1) Native Metaprogramming in Haskell This very ambitious project made significant progress, though is not yet ready for a full merge into GHC. A talk and paper on work relating to it were presented at the Haskell Implementors Workshop at ICFP, and a page on the GHC wiki describes the current status. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSWoGdfYt68 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.04799 - https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/NativeMetaprogramming 2) GHCVM - A JVM Backend for GHC Again, significant progress made on a very ambitious project, which has now been renamed to “eta”. A talk on the work done was given at the HIW, and the project is considered ready for “hobbyist use”. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4m7xFVzd50 - https://github.com/typelead/eta 3) Completing the LLVM backend for Accelerate All operators of the LLVM backend are now implemented, and we’re told that the accelerate-llvm project, already usable, will be get a more proper announcement as ready for widespread use real soon now (tm). - https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-llvm - https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-llvm/commits?author=ZihengJiang 4) Hackage Improvements A whole raft of usability improvements to hackage (including the long-awaited rollout of reverse dependency tracking, and a very usable package browser interface) are undergoing final code review and polish in a PR before being rolled out. The student’s blog contains more information about what’s on the way. - http://sooryanarayan.me/blog/hsoc-testimonial/ 5) Derivable Storable and Prim instances This work resulted in both a package (usable today) and a plugin to improve the performance of the derived code. Updates on the decisions made and work done were posted to the numerical-haskell group - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/derive-storable - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/derive-storable-plugin - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/numericalhaskell 6) Visual functional block-based programming language for CodeWorld This work went well and is described on the student’s blog. It is usable today at https://code.world/blocks and apparently has already begun to be integrated into CodeWorld lesson plans. - http://stefanj.me/funblocks/ - https://code.world/blocks 7) Jupyter for GHCJS Apparently this ran into a far amount of difficulties and didn’t make significant progress, though not for lack of effort. The student is anticipated to write up an experience report describing some of the problems encountered and how others might work around them in the future. 8) Live Profiling and Performance Monitoring Server A lot of work was accomplished on various fronts here. A number of changes to the GHC RTS are in review and pending merge. A tool has been written to take advantage of the newly available information. And various other small packages that met needs along the way were extracted and contributed to hackage. A fuller write-up of progress and future work is available at the student’s blog. - https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2522 - https://github.com/NCrashed/live-profile-monitor - http://ncrashed.github.io/blog/posts/2016-09-11-hsoc-results.html * * * Apologies for the delays in assembling this information -- as they say, man plans, the fates laugh. Thanks to all our students for their dedicated work and contributions to the ecosystem. We hope to see much more from all of you in the future. And thanks to all our mentors for donating their time to guide, teach, and make this possible. And a very special thanks to Edward Kmett for co-ordinating much of the administrative work here, as well as fundraising towards this great Summer of Haskell. * * * Sponsors (listed on summer.haskell.org) - haskell.org kicked things off this year by funding a student and organizing the Summer of Haskell. - Awake Networks is building a next generation network security and analytics platform. They are a proud sponsor of the Summer of Haskell and contribute broadly to the Haskell community. - Haskell Book is a proud sponsor of the Summer of Haskell and provides a complete and up-to-date resource for learning Haskell, suitable whether you're completely new to Haskell or are at an intermediate level and want to deepen your understanding. - YOW! Australia is a proud sponsor of the Summer of Haskell and organizes conferences throughout Australia. - Chris Smith volunteered to fund two students to work on CodeWorld in particular. - Edward Kmett and Gershom Bazerman volunteered to personally fund a student project. Best, Gershom Bazerman Haskell.org Committee

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Call for Haskell.org Committee Nominations
by Gershom B 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

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 four members of our committee due for retirement -- Adam Foltzer, Nicolas Wu, Andres Loeh, and Edward Kmett (who is stepping down early). As per our bylaws, three of the slots will be for regular three year terms, and one will be a short one year term to fill out the remainder of Edward's. To nominate yourself, please send an email to committee at haskell.org by December 2, 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. 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. Best, Gershom Bazerman

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ANN: Haskell Website Working Group
by Gershom B 24 Nov '16

24 Nov '16

The following text is reproduced from Neil Mitchell’s blog (I’m just the messanger) where it lives at: https://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-haskellorg-website-working-gr… == The Haskell.org Website Working Group (HWWG) == Haskell represents both a language and a user community - and moreover a fantastic community full of friends, fun, and deep technical debate. Unfortunately, in recent times the community has started to fracture, e.g. Cabal vs Stack, haskell.org vs haskell-lang.org. These divisions have risen above technical disagreements and at some points turned personal. The solution, shepherded by Simon Peyton Jones, and agreed to by both members of the haskell.org committee and the maintainers of haskell-lang.org, is to form the Haskell Website Working Group (HWWG). The charter of the group is at the bottom of this post. The goal of the Haskell Website Working Group is to make sure the Haskell website caters to the needs of Haskell programmers, particularly beginners. In doing so we hope to either combine or differentiate haskell.org and haskell-lang.org, and give people clear recommendations of what "downloading Haskell" means. Concretely, we hope that either haskell-lang.org redirects to haskell.org, or that haskell-lang.org ends up being used for something very different from today. == The Haskell Website Working Group (HWWG) == - Scope and goals - * The HWWG is responsible for the design and content of the user-facing haskell.org web site, including tutorials, videos, news, resource, downloads, etc. * The HWWG is not responsible for: * The infrastructure of haskell.org * Toolchains, Hackage, compilers, etc * The HWWG focuses on serving users of Haskell, not suppliers of technology or libraries. * An explicit goal is to re-unite the haskell.org and haskell-lang.org web sites. - Expected mode of operation - * HWWG is not responsible for actually doing everything! The web site is on github. Anyone can make a pull request. The general expectation is that uncontroversial changes will be accepted and committed without much debate. * If there is disagreement about a proposed change, it's up to the HWWG to engage in (open) debate, and to seek input as widely as time allows, but finally to make a decision. - Membership - Initial membership comprises of: * Neil Mitchell (chair) * Nicolas Wu * Andrew Cowie * Vincent Hanquez * Ryan Trinkle * Chris Done It is expected the committee will change over time, but the mechanism has not yet been thought about. - Rules of engagement - * Recognising that honestly-held judgements may differ, we will be scrupulously polite both in public and in private. * Recognising that Haskell has many users, and that different users have different needs and tastes, we want haskell.org to be inclusive rather than exclusive, providing a variety of alternative resources (toolchains, tutorials, books, etc) clearly signposted with their intended audiences. * Ultimately the haskell.org committee owns the haskell.org URL, but it delegates authority for the design and content of the web site to the HWWG. In extremis, if the haskell.org committee believes that the HWWG is mismanaging the web site, it can revoke that delegation.

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Introduction
by Ben Spencer 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Hello everyone, I wanted to introduce myself. I'm a software developer in NYC that recently discovered Haskell. I've been participating in a local study group and I'm impressed with the language and the community thus far. Looking forward to great things. Best, Ben Spencer Sent from my iPhone

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haskell.org download page
by Jason Dagit 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Hello all, I just realized that the Minimal installer listed first on the Downloads page (https://www.haskell.org/downloads) is deprecated and "dead". This creates an unfortunate situation where our top suggested way to get haskell immediately tells the user it's dead. I think that we should remove mention of the minimal installer ASAP on the grounds that the HP now comes in minimal and full variants. Furthermore, I would like to make the recommendation that we list the HP above other methods as even the minimal HP installer ships with stack (at least on windows it does). Between the two changes, I think the first one is crucial and the second one is merely reasonable. Thanks, Jason

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Eligibility?
by Luke Murphy 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

Hi folks, I just saw the call for committee nominations announced on Haskell Cafe. That's great and a really nice initiative I wasn't aware about. However, I didn't find any information about eligibility for prospective members on the link provided: - https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee For example, guidelines on location, timezone, skill, experience, involvement with community etc. Did I miss it somewhere? Best, Luke

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Re: [Haskell-community] New home for the perf.haskell.org builder wanted
by Ryan Trinkle 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Hi Joachim and Sebastian, I think it would make sense to get a machine like that with Haskell.org funds. My company (Obsidian) would be happy to host it physically and cover internet/power/etc., although our facilities aren't too fancy (no redundant connections or anything like that). Best, Ryan On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Sebastian Graf <sgraf1337(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, > > I'm the guy getting things going with the a more involved architecture ( > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haskell-cafe/Ak0eMiDVaCQ) I'm > currently reading into how to set up proper container images for master and > slave nodes, so > > I also do not necessarily need root access >> > > If I'm not mistaken, root access will probably be needed for Docker, or > some way to submit container images to run stuff on. > > So long, > Sebastian > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Joachim Breitner < > mail(a)joachim-breitner.de> wrote: > > Hi, >> >>> >> although I have moved away from Karlsruhe three months ago, so far it >> >> is still my office PC driving >> >>> https://perf.haskell.org/ghc/ >> >>> >> But a new person is now using my desk and wants to use this machine, so >> >> I should really really move this away from there now. >> >>> >> Sebastian Graf has been working on turning gipeda, the Frontend >> >>> perf.haskell.org, into a more general service open to open source >> >> Haskell projects, and this is close, but not close enough to simply >> >> stop running the performance tests until he is good to go. >> >>> >> He currently has a machine given from haskell.org to run this on, but >> >> it is a virtual machine and the measurements are too flaky for real >> >> use. >> >>> >> So basically, I need a decent non-virtualized (or virtualized, but >> >> exclusive) machine to move my performance build runner to, as quickly >> >> as possible. The current specs are >> >> * 8 core Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz >> >> * 16 GB RAM >> >> but it does not matter too much, a slightly weaker machine would be >> >> able to keep up as well. I also do not necessarily need root access >> >> (but it would be beyond the point if the machine would do other stuff >> >> that incurs a heavy load). >> >>> >> The same machine could then be used by Sebastian for his more general >> >> setup, once that is ready to go. >> >>> >> Does anyone have something handy? >> >>> >> Greetings, >> >> Joachim >> >>> >> >> -- >> >> Joachim “nomeata” Breitner >> >> mail(a)joachim-breitner.de • https://www.joachim-breitner.de/ >> >> XMPP: nomeata(a)joachim-breitner.de • OpenPGP-Key: 0xF0FBF51F >> Debian Developer: nomeata(a)debian.org >> >

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