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

Sat Mar 9 00:18:09 UTC 2024

Greetings all, and thanks for the welcome!

I've also nudged two to apply, hopefully they come through. Do we have a
deadline for this second round? I think it would be helpful for those that
delay evaluation as long as possible.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 10:24 AM Simon Peyton Jones <
simon.peytonjones 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.
>
>
> 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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