I am pleased to announce the creation of the Haskell Core Libraries Committee. The Core Libraries Committee was formed to give us a maintainer to many of the libraries that previously fell under "GHC HQ" in the core libraries section of the library submission guidelines. As a maintainer, this committee will follow the guidelines of the libraries submission process collectively: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions The main effect of this is that it provides a body that is authorized to actually make decisions about how to proceed with changes to core libraries, and this should help with distributing development effort out into the community in the wake of Simon Marlow's departure from Microsoft Research. From the community's perspective, the creation of this committee provides a way to get more definitive feedback about proposals per the responsiveness guidelines: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions#Responsiveness The inaugural composition of the committee is as follows: * Edward Kmett (chair) * Brent Yorgey * Michael Snoyman * Dan Doel * Doug Beardsley * Joachim Breitner * Mark Lentczner (ex-officio, as the Haskell Platform Maintainer) After the first year, as per the haskell.org committee, the core libraries committee will be seeking self-nominations for two of the members per year on a rolling basis. We'll internally determine which terms are ending after this year and next, and members thereafter will have a three year term, with the possibility to self-renominate. Thank you. We are looking forward to continuing to work with the community that we all know and love.