[Haskell-community] Resignation

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Edward

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.

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.

Simon

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 to take up the mantle?

From: Haskell-community [mailto:haskell-community-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Edward Kmett
Sent: 29 August 2016 06:43
To: haskell-community at haskell.org
Subject: [Haskell-community] Resignation

I'm officially resigning from the haskell.org<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> committee effective immediately after the end of the Summer of Haskell.

To those of you on the committee, I apologize for abandoning you.

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.

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.

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.

This part of my role within the committee has been as life affirming and wonderful as anything I've ever done.

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.

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.

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.

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.


--Edward Kmett
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