How to grow the (commercial) Haskell user base?

As the topic of documentation and especially authoritative entry level guidance was mentioned, e.g. in the form of a Haskell book, i was wondering if someone could ask the authors of Haskell Programming from First Principles if they would be willing to donate the books’ content to the Haskell Foundation, or the HF could invest money and buy this book into public domain. The book seems to have good quality, is beginner-friendly and covers very important topics for real world applications such as like MTL for application context (i would be hesitant to recommend effect libraries at this moment due to low ecosystem adoption) and error handling. This would be much more effective than starting from scratch, because from experience many such initiates loose steam quickly, because it takes more time and effort than on would think.

Regarding packages, maybe we can improve the documentation together: What packages need better documentation the most?

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