<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Hello,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">I’d like to re-nominate myself to be on the Core Libraries Committee.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">My interest in being on the committee is focused around being able to act on issues as they appear on committee managed repositories as well as being involved in the discussions around changes to the committee managed libraries.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">I can help represent industrial users though my experience working at Galois as well as as the larger hobbyist community through my personal programming experience and online community involvement.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">My current seat on the committee was set to expire already, but it was never specifically replaced with anyone new. I’d like to renew it at this point.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Best regards,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Eric Mertens</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">“glguy"</span><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 4:23 PM Edward Kmett <<a href="mailto:ekmett@gmail.com">ekmett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.357143em;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Haskellers,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.357143em;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm putting out a call for new nominations (typically but not necessarily self-nominations) to the Core Libraries Committee.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We've had two open slots for a while, and technically at least a couple of members of the committee are due to rotate off.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To nominate yourself, please send an email to core-libraries-committee at <a href="http://haskell.org" target="_blank">haskell.org</a> by December 1, 2018. 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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The core libraries committee acts as the maintainer of the core libraries mentioned on <a href="https://wiki.haskell.org/Library_submissions" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(125,93,138);margin:0px" target="_blank">https://wiki.haskell.org/Library_submissions</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For the most part members maintain individual libraries under the maintainer guidelines for Haskell, but there are occasional "barn-raising" style calls for discussion and decision whenever things need a broad enough mandate.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">More details about the committee's roles and responsibilities are on</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.haskell.org/Core_Libraries_Committee" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(125,93,138);margin:0px" target="_blank">https://wiki.haskell.org/Core_Libraries_Committee</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to e-mail us at core-libraries-committee at <a href="http://haskell.org" target="_blank">haskell.org</a>, or contact one of us individually.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.357143em 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857em;color:rgb(77,87,99);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-Edward Kmett</p></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Eric Mertens</div>