selenamarie

We focus on catering to everyone that comes to our classes. We aim for 100% understanding.

We want you to learn from each other. We'd like the people you meet here to be colleagues for the rest of your career, regardless of what you do.

Starting out anything new is very hard. We base our course work on 20+ years of experiencing doing, but not teaching. We have a huge gap to overcome in our teaching. Sometimes, our pacing is off, or our explanations fall flat. Our job is to do better next time; your job is to let us know -- ask questions in class, and tell us after class what doesn't work for you.

Our spaces are designed for learning. Come ready to collaborate with others, try new, difficult and unfamiliar things.

We want you to be confident experimentors who can communicate with other programmers.

acfoltzer

Dear Committee,

I'm writing to nominate myself for a position on the haskell.org committee.

As a working Haskell developer at Galois, having reliable infrastructure is deeply important to me, and I would like to help maintain it however I can. I have experience maintaining web, mail, and IRC servers, as well as acquiring and configuring SSL certificates for those services. I hope that these skills may prove of use to the committee.

I also believe this is a critical point in the growth of our community. As adoption of Haskell increases, the decisions we make now will shape how our community develops, for good or for bad. I was moved by Chung-chieh Shan's [Haskell 2013 Program Chair report][1]. As he says, it can be hard work to speak one's mind with compassion, but let me try so that you can know better my concerns and what I hope to work towards.

I believe that a lack of diversity is one of the primary problems facing the Haskell community today. Ashe Dryden recently spoke at Galois and gave an excellent