# Haskell Foundation June Update

**URL:** <https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-june-update/2722>\
**Category:** Haskell Foundation\
**Created:** [July 1, 2021, 3:42am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-june-update/2722 "2021-07-01T03:42:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![myShoggoth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/myshoggoth/32/1877_2.png) [@myShoggoth](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/myShoggoth)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 3:42am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-june-update/2722/1 "2021-07-01T03:42:30Z")

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# Haskell Foundation June Update

# New Sponsors!

We want to thank our two newest sponsors.

**[Digital Asset](https://www.digitalasset.com/)** has stepped up to support the Haskell Foundation at the **Monad** level. Digital Asset creates Daml, a language aiming to revolutionize the smart contract space.

**[ExFreight](https://www.exfreight.com/)** is supporting us at **Applicative**. ExFreight is a logistics company using Haskell to revolutionize the freight industry.

Please join me in showing them appreciation and love for supporting the Haskell community! They join our distinguished list of sponsors:

## Monad

- [IOHK](https://iohk.io/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/)
- [Digital Asset](https://www.digitalasset.com/)

## Applicative

- [EMQ](https://www.emqx.io/)
- [Tweag](https://www.tweag.io/)
- [Well-Typed](https://well-typed.com/)
- [Obsidian Systems](https://obsidian.systems/)
- [ExFreight](https://www.exfreight.com/)

## Functor

- [Flipstone](https://flipstone.com/)
- [Mercury](https://mercury.com/)

# Technical Agenda

Work on Text-Utf8, GHC Performance Dashboard, and the Unified Installer continues. [Bodigrim](mailto:andrew.lelechenko@gmail.com) has [disabled implicit fusion rules](https://github.com/haskell/text/pull/348) in text in work related to the Text-Utf8 changes, as well!

## GHC Support

GHC CI received a generous grant of Azure credits from Microsoft, which looked like enough to negate the need for more hardware in the short term. However, upon testing, it turns out not to have been enough for some use cases, so the HF is looking to fund hardware to help our wonderful GHC team. If you or your company would like to help out, [Donate or Sponsor](https://haskell.foundation/donations/) today!

# Community

## Podcast

We are starting “The Haskell Interlude”, a new Haskell-focused podcast where we interview guests from the Haskell community. The hosts are Niki Vazou, Joachim Breitner, Andres Löh, Alejandro Serrano and Wouter Swierstra. The first episode will be out soon on our [Podcast](https://haskell.foundation/podcast) page.

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**Author:** ![liskin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/liskin/32/1221_2.png) [@liskin](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/liskin)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 8:23am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-june-update/2722/2 "2021-07-01T08:23:02Z")

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Does (will) the podcast have an RSS/Atom feed we can subscribe to?

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**Author:** ![myShoggoth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/myshoggoth/32/1877_2.png) [@myShoggoth](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/myShoggoth)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-june-update/2722/3 "2021-07-01T16:12:30Z")

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The HF website is built using Hakyll, and my intent is that it will be data driven and able to generate the RSS/Atom feeds properly. Whether or not we’ll have this working initially is mostly a question of volunteers / bandwidth.

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**Author:** ![liskin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/liskin/32/1221_2.png) [@liskin](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/liskin)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-june-update/2722/4 "2021-07-16T17:53:22Z")

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Seems like the RSS might be here: [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1817535.rss](https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1817535.rss)

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**Author:** ![Elland](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/elland/32/4387_2.png) [@Elland](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/Elland)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 9:11am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-june-update/2722/5 "2021-07-19T09:11:04Z")

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I could certainly take a look at it later today, and see at least how much effort would be needed. Depending on that, I could also happily implement it.

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**Author:** ![Elland](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/elland/32/4387_2.png) [@Elland](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/Elland)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-june-update/2722/6 "2021-07-20T17:07:20Z")

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As promised (still [WIP](https://github.com/haskellfoundation/haskellfoundation.github.io/pull/91/)).