<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Dear Committee,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">This is your interim secretary speaking:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><font color="#000000" face="Menlo-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;" class="">Articulate principles for GHC evolution, proposing a new "principles" document to be added to the proposals repo, </span></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">has been proposed by me.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><font color="#000000" face="Menlo-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452" class="">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452</a></span></font><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Menlo-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst" class="">https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst</a></span></font><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">I propose Simon PJ as the shepherd, as this is something of a meta-proposal, appropriate for shepherding by our chair.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Thanks,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Richard</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""></div></body></html>