<div dir="ltr">Shachaf Ben-Kiki and Gershom Bazerman have acted as backup administrators with Google for the last couple of years. If we manage to get into the Google Summer of Code next year, either one of them could take up the mantle without much hullabaloo. On the other hand, if we have to do a self-funded Summer of Haskell, that would take a pretty actively engaged administrator to go try to drum up funding.<div><br></div><div>I'll talk to the folks on the committee to see how they want to proceed. Now that we don't have to hover over SPI someone outside of the committee running it is pretty viable, especially if we're able to just do GSoC; Ryan does all the hard work on the finance side as treasurer. I was also in the process of trying to raise some funding for Gnome Outreachy and general haskell infrastructure work, so I'll see if I can hand off those leads to the rest of the committee as well.</div><div><br></div><div>-Edward</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Your leadership of the Summer of Haskell has been fantastic. It would not have happened without you. Thank you so much --- you are a star.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please do stay with the Core Libraries Committee. A group like that only functions when it is actively led, to bring discussions to a conclusions
and articulate decisions. Thank you for that too.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">PS: Do you have a successor for Summer of Code? Is there a danger that, leaderless, it just won’t happen next year? Anyone interested in volunteering
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Edward Kmett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 29 August 2016 06:43<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:haskell-community@haskell.org" target="_blank">haskell-community@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Haskell-community] Resignation<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm officially resigning from the <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fhaskell.org&data=01%7c01%7csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7cbc33408c07434dddb90008d3cfcf5c84%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=M2yHQ7aHB6CJfzs%2futbAaUHCic0zeGWOfVEpOcs4yKE%3d" target="_blank">
haskell.org</a> committee effective immediately after the end of the Summer of Haskell.<br>
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To those of you on the committee, I apologize for abandoning you.<br>
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The reason I joined and have remained on the committee for the past several years is entirely to deal with the needs of the Summer of Code, both financially and administratively. It has provided me a way to give back to a community that has been so incredibly
good to me.<br>
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When Galois managed our finances, someone had to deal with it. When we moved into SPI, it ironically started taking more effort. When we formed a non-profit in December things started looking up in terms of administrative overhead, but then we crushingly weren't
accepted into the program this year.<br>
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In the wake of that I was somehow able to raise funding and wrangle us around $40,000 in sponsorship to fund eight students to work on Haskell for the summer. The outpouring of goodwill there was tangible. Those projects are wrapping up nicely now.<br>
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This part of my role within the committee has been as life affirming and wonderful as anything I've ever done.<br>
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However, the job is coming at an ever greater personal cost that I'm simply unwilling to continue to bear. My wife has come to dread the "there's someone wrong on the internet" moments, and I've come to realize it isn't fair to her -- I simply find myself spread
too thin.<br>
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I shall continue to serve on the Core Libraries Committee, as I do continue to care deeply about the structure of the language we all love, if not so much the tooling around it, and I am willing to put in the time to on that front where I feel much more strongly
about the issues at hand and have what I hope is a nuanced opinion to offer. Ultimately, the barbs thrown around, say, during the Foldable/Traversable Proposal, while heated, never felt personal, merely rational disagreement between well meaning parties with
different priorities.<br>
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I care a great deal about our community; it was ultimately Cale and the rest of the folks in #haskell channel that lured me in at first, not any of the technical merits of the language. Those only took hold of me later on, but without that comfortable environment
never would have had a chance to set.<br>
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I do not care enough about the contents of a web page to let my health, relationships, productivity and home life suffer further. I hope that by stepping back I can continue to retain or perhaps regain some of those friendships that recent events have strained.<br>
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--Edward Kmett<u></u><u></u></p>
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