Welcome to the Haskell Foundation! A quick history Mid 2020 Members of the Haskell community start discussions on how to bring everyone together, and push more adoption of the programming language in industry. A Working Group is created, and fundraising starts. November 4, 2020 Simon Peyton Jones announced the formation of the Haskell Foundation in his talk at Haskell eXchange 2020. November 5, 2020 A Call for Nominations is made for the Haskell Foundation Board of Directors. December 6, 2020 ...
I recommend getting involved with the Haskell Discourse (https://discourse.haskell.org/), and when there are discussions or calls for volunteers for things you're excited about / interested in, join in!
Haskell Foundation April Update Technical Agenda Text-Utf8 Proposal Our goal is to make strings in Haskell world-class, and to start that process our Tech Agenda Group and its collaborators have identified changes to the default implementation of Text that will improve memory and computation overhead in the majority of use cases. We’re working with the Text maintainers to migrate the existing libraries to Utf8. GHC Performance Dashboard The dashboard is live, spurred by HF conversations and tha...
Haskell Foundation May Update Technical Agenda Text-Utf8 Proposal The proposal was accepted! Bodigrim and Emily Pillmore did a fantastic job specifying the work and responding to enthusiastic feedback. Thank you to all the reviewers and commenters for helping, and we look forward to progress updates. Unified Installer We are excited to announce that Chris Dornan has volunteered to take the project lead role in conjunction with Julian Ospald (the author of ghcup), and will be working with member...
Official Update #1: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-update-2021-03-19
First time I hear of this. Looks very interesting. I hope it brings the community together.
Do you have any plans to help getting people are mostly pastime Haskell users involved?
I recommend getting involved with the Haskell Discourse (https://discourse.haskell.org/), and when there are discussions or calls for volunteers for things you're excited about / interested in, join in!
I don't think Andrew Boardman is affiliated with HF
are you?
haha!
oops, that's embarrassing, I only took a look at the board :sweat_smile: sorry :bow:
board member named Boardman? sounds like a scam!
HF April Update is posted: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-april-update/2445
awesome!
HF May Update: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-may-update/2567
are the typeclass names under sponsors the tiers of how high the contribution is?