Chairship / responsibility

[Simon Peyton Jones]

|  It was my understanding that Herbert would be the chair when I asked to
|  be on the committee, and the fact that this question was already answer
|  was a factor in my decision to try to help. Being the committee chair
|  is less a position of power, and more a position of responsibility. I
|  think we can be very happy to have someone who is willing to do the
|  job, and I absolutely trust hvr to be up to the task.

Andres says this well.  Being chair is a facilitating role, helping discussions make progress, and gently pressing them forward to a conclusion.  

I'm very grateful to Herbert for taking it on -- thank you!

Simon


|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Haskell-prime [mailto:haskell-prime-bounces at haskell.org] On
|  Behalf Of Andres Löh
|  Sent: 30 April 2016 09:39
|  To: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvriedel at gmail.com>
|  Cc: haskell-prime at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: Chairship / responsibility
|  
|  Hi.
|  
|  It was my understanding that Herbert would be the chair when I asked to
|  be on the committee, and the fact that this question was already answer
|  was a factor in my decision to try to help. Being the committee chair
|  is less a position of power, and more a position of responsibility. I
|  think we can be very happy to have someone who is willing to do the
|  job, and I absolutely trust hvr to be up to the task.
|  
|  If needed, we can revisit the question over time when we have a better
|  idea how our usual workflow and processes look like, but I don't think
|  we need to or should have this discussion now.
|  
|  Cheers,
|    Andres
|