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