claus.reinke: > > For this purpose, the only thing better is if we could somehow > > get them to mention Microsoft everywhere they mention Haskell. > > Any actual explaining would just get in the way :) > > Doesn't quite work without explaining, because one would have > to be very careful not to mis-represent financial support by some > as endorsement by the whole; but if one were to ask those who > have contributed financially to Haskell development in some form > or other for their permissions, one could make quite an interesting > little list (not to mention the vastly larger list of people who have > contributed their time, efforts, and ideas). > > There have been occasional discussions of language-specific or > FP-in-general industry consortiums. Perhaps the simpler form > of "Haskell sponsorship" with mutual bragging rights for haskell.org > and sponsor could be a seed corn for such organisations. These > days, being associated with FP is no longer something that needs > explaining, let alone defending, so sponsors could get something > out of their contribution, such as cute little logos, tea-cups and > t-shirts (apart from the prime motive of better Haskell;-). > > Imagine all the students that universities could attract by being a > "Haskell campus", not just turning out "Haskell engineers", but > "supporting Haskell development" by contributing staff time. > Imagine all the competent developers and major customers > companies could attract by being a "Haskell sponsor", being > actively involved in "Haskell frontline development&research". > Imagine all those pretty Haskell logos on all those webpages.
I suggest any industrial group interested in an Industrial Haskell Group please contact Andy Adams-Moran at Galois. Things are in the pipeline, and the more participants the better. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
