Out of interest, when will the new committee members be announced? On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Gershom B <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-community mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community > -- Noon Silk, ن https://silky.github.io/ "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."
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