[Haskell-community] Resignation

[Edward Kmett]

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.

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.

-Edward

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
wrote:

> Edward
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Simon
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> 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?
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> *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
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> 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.
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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.
>
>
> --Edward Kmett
>
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