Re: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-09 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 07:27:35AM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: I think that's an excellent idea. I think there should be a web page describing what the committee does, who is in it, how to contact it, etc. Yes, definitely. I've created:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-06 Thread Vo Minh Thu
2010/9/6 Manuel M T Chakravarty c...@cse.unsw.edu.au: Ian Lynagh: To fix this problem, we propose that we create a haskell.org committee, which is responsible for answering these sorts of questions, although for some questions they may choose to poll the community at large if they think

RE: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-06 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Ian et al | To fix this problem, we propose that we create a haskell.org | committee, which is responsible for answering these sorts of questions, | although for some questions they may choose to poll the community at | large if they think appropriate. I think that's an excellent idea. I think

Re: [Haskell-cafe] RE: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-06 Thread Graham Klyne
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | As membership of the Haskell community is not well-defined, and voting | would potentially be open to abuse if anyone were able to vote, we | propose that the committee should choose their replacements from open | nominations. I agree with the problem, and I think

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-06 Thread Vo Minh Thu
2010/9/6 Manuel M T Chakravarty c...@cse.unsw.edu.au: Ian Lynagh: To fix this problem, we propose that we create a haskell.org committee, which is responsible for answering these sorts of questions, although for some questions they may choose to poll the community at large if they think

[Haskell-cafe] RE: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-06 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Ian et al | To fix this problem, we propose that we create a haskell.org | committee, which is responsible for answering these sorts of questions, | although for some questions they may choose to poll the community at | large if they think appropriate. I think that's an excellent idea. I think

Re: [Haskell-cafe] RE: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-06 Thread Graham Klyne
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | As membership of the Haskell community is not well-defined, and voting | would potentially be open to abuse if anyone were able to vote, we | propose that the committee should choose their replacements from open | nominations. I agree with the problem, and I think

[Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
Dear Haskellers, In recent years, haskell.org has started to receive assets, e.g. money from Google Summer Of Code, donations for Hackathons, and a Sparc machine for use in GHC development. We have also started spending this money: on the community server, on a server to take over hosting

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-05 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Ian Lynagh: To fix this problem, we propose that we create a haskell.org committee, which is responsible for answering these sorts of questions, although for some questions they may choose to poll the community at large if they think appropriate. [..] Unfortunately, this gives us a