Haskell.org, Inc. is a Not-for-Profit Corporation incorporated in the State of New York. It is also exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986. A committee of Haskell.org, Inc. (the Committee) oversees the Haskell.org website and a number of other services for the Haskell community:
The corporation is formed to promote scientific progress and education relating to the Haskell programming language and related technologies.
Some particular aspects of the work of the corporation include producing and maintaining material regarding the Haskell language on haskell.org and other associated websites; hosting and maintaining shared assets and infrastructure for the benefit of the Haskell community; coordinating educational activities including mentorship programs; and potentially organizing events regarding the Haskell language.
The corporation also organizes Haskell’s participation in the Google Summer of Code program.
The bylaws of the corporation are published here.
The directors of the corporation are also directors of Haskell Foundation, Inc..
The responsibilities of the Committee include:
The committee consists of 7 members serving 3-year terms. The current members are:
Committee members do not need to be deep technical Haskell experts. Instead we look for enthusiasm towards improving the Haskell community. We aim to represent the different facets of the community. We aim to be diverse in terms of industry or research, and in terms of gender, race and location.
The Committee consists of 7 members. Members are expected to serve a 3 year term, and terms are staggered so that 2 or 3 members step down each year, at the end of October.
The members will elect one of their number to be chair each year. The chair is responsible for making sure that things keep moving, and to ensure that a conclusion is reached on any issues raised.
In November of each year—or if a member steps down before their term is over—the committee holds an open call for new members, encouraging self-nominations. Committee members whose terms are over are eligible for renomination.
After nominations have been solicited, the current Committee—including any outgoing members not seeking reelection—selects new members with a simple majority vote.
While this has never occurred in the past, Committee members can also be removed by majority vote.
The initial Haskell.org committee was formed in November 2010. As described there:
In recent years, haskell.org has started to receive assets, e.g. Google Summer Of Code funds, 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.org itself, and on the haskell.org domain name. There is also interest in running fundraising drives for specific things such as Hackathon sponsorship and hosting fees.
To resolve who is responsible for haskell.org’s infrastructure development, open nominations were held to form a haskell.org committee, based on representatives from the open source Haskell community.
Haskell.org, Inc. was subsequently incorporated on 28 September 2015, with DOS ID 4825953.
