[ghc-steering-committee] Welcome Malte and Matthías, and other membership changes

[Simon Peyton Jones]

>
> I have reach out to a few but don’t want to put them on the spot by
> sharing their details. I hope at least one of them follows through to
> apply. Maybe two.


That's fine, Moritz.  The important thing is that you have personally
invited a few possible members.  Thank you!

Simon

On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 09:19, Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have reach out to a few but don’t want to put them on the spot by
> sharing their details. I hope at least one of them follows through to
> apply. Maybe two.
>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 5:06 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <
> simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear GHC SC members,
>>
>> You'll remember that we agreed to have a second round of nominations.
>> (Malte and Matthais you won't have seen this, but the idea is to give us a
>> few more members, so that we can broaden and deepen our pool of expertise
>> and bandwidth.)  Adam announced this (below).
>>
>> *We also agreed that each of us would personally invite three people to
>> nominate themselves.  A personal invitation is FAR more effective than a
>> blanket invitation.*
>>
>> So can each of you think of three people, and tell Adam (cc the rest of
>> us) who you are going to invite?  That way we'll avoid duplication, and
>> it'll give each of us a little incentive to do it.
>>
>> I will invite
>>
>>    - David Binder
>>    - Sebastian Graf
>>    - Krzysztof Gogolewski
>>    - Ryan Scott
>>    - Matthew Craven
>>
>> I was wondering about
>>
>>    - Jaro Reinders
>>    - Mark Seeman -- I don't know him at all but his blog post are
>>    regularly featured on HWN
>>    - Brandon Chinn -- active on Haskell Discourse
>>    - Teo Camarasu -- ditto
>>    - maxigit  -- I'm not sure who they are but they post a lot on
>>    Discourse
>>
>> If you have reservations about any of these, drop me a line.  I'll wait a
>> day or two.
>>
>> And do send in your list of three (or more!) who you will invite.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Adam Gundry via Haskell Community <discourse at haskell.org>
>> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 08:26
>> Subject: Re: [Haskell Community] [Announcements] GHC Steering Committee
>> Call for Nominations 2024
>> To: <simon.peytonjones at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> adamgundry <https://discourse.haskell.org/u/adamgundry> Haskell
>> Foundation Working Group
>> March 7
>>
>> Following the recent nomination round, the GHC Steering Committee is
>> delighted to welcome @maralorn <https://discourse.haskell.org/u/maralorn>
>> and @Tritlo <https://discourse.haskell.org/u/tritlo> as new members. In
>> addition, @rae <https://discourse.haskell.org/u/rae>, @nomeata
>> <https://discourse.haskell.org/u/nomeata> and @int-index
>> <https://discourse.haskell.org/u/int-index> are reaching the end of
>> their terms, and have decided to step down. Many thanks to all of them for
>> their service to the Haskell community!
>>
>> Given that a larger committee would help spread out the work of reviewing
>> proposals, we have decided to open a second round of nominations where we
>> will consider appointing up to 3 more members. If you would like to
>> nominate yourself, please get in touch with me by email to
>> adam at well-typed.com as soon as possible. Or if you know someone else who
>> would be a suitable member of the committee, please encourage them to apply.
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 07:53, Adam Gundry <adam at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Following the recent nomination round, the committee is delighted to
>>> welcome Malte Ott and Matthías Páll Gissurarson as new members. Thank
>>> you both for your willingness to volunteer. I will add your details to
>>> the GitHub repo, and you are encouraged to contribute to the discussion
>>> of any of the proposals under committee review.
>>>
>>> Richard Eisenberg, Joachim Breitner and Vladislav Zavialov are reaching
>>> the end of their terms, and have decided to step down. On behalf of the
>>> Haskell community, we are very grateful for your dedicated service over
>>> the years, which has been instrumental in helping GHC flourish.
>>>
>>> Given that this results in a net reduction in size of the committee, we
>>> have decided to open a second round of nominations where we will
>>> consider appointing up to 3 more members. I will post an update to the
>>> announcement on Discourse [1], and I strongly encourage all members of
>>> the committee to consider whom they could personally invite to join us.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-steering-committee-call-for-nominations-2024/8666
>>>
>>>
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