Collaborative Development

There are several commercial users of Haskell with a shared interest in maintaining and improving Haskell as a development platform. While this work would be too expensive for any individual company, by pooling resources the work can be funded and all of the companies involved benefit for a fraction of the cost.

The next iteration of this scheme will begin in January and run for 6 months. Companies interested in taking part should ideally sign up by early December.

If you are interested in taking part in the collaborative development scheme, please e-mail info@industry.haskell.org.

Cost

Each company contributes £6k (around $10k US at the time of writing). The bulk of this will be used to pay Well-Typed at their long-term work rate of £450 per 8-hour man day (roughly $750 US at current exchange rates).

This is used to pay for work on the shared issues that the members collectively agree are most important. We expect that it will be possible to reach a consensus over e-mail between the members on what should be done, but if not then we will hold a vote.

We expect that the main shared priority of the members will be producing and supporting high quality releases of the Haskell development platform, i.e. the tool-chain and the standard libraries.

This work will all be open source. It will either be under the license of an existing project or for new work we suggest the standard 3-clause BSD license.

The activities funded by the scheme will be reported to the community as a whole via regular blog posts and with a summary posted on this site. At the end of each accounting period we will present the members with the summary of the completed work along with accounts.