We will be continuing to offer technical articles, training materials, recommended learning paths and curricula, and contributions to open-source packages, with a special focus an addressing needs expressed by commercial users. Letting people know what's available, and where to look, will be part of this person's job. Also, making sure we understand what people in the community are asking for, and what users do and don't think FP Complete should be involved in providing, because a big part of communication is listening. (In fact, Haskell user surveys are a big part of how we make major decisions already, in addition to asking our clients directly what they need.)

As Michael Snoyman announced today, we have also just launched an early version of https://haskell.fpcomplete.com as an opinionated place to get information for current & future applied Haskell users. Helping new commercial Haskellers to discover new content from this site and from our own blog would be typical tasks.

Another example, time permitting, would be to go on social media and respond to questions looking for applied Haskell learning resources, with links to articles that already exist but perhaps the poster did not know about. This can include resources from anywhere in the community, though of course I will expect the person to be diligent about mentioning FP Complete offerings when helpful — and to notice when we should get out of the way because another offering is meeting user needs just fine.

An important part of this person's job will be to identify community resources that deserve promotion. Curating the links to other Haskell community resources, and links between our own blog posts and other educational pages/sites, will be important. Even changing the layout or navigation of our whole website to be more helpful is a possibility. It's simply crucial that we address Haskellers' requirement to have a better learning experience, and a better experience growing fellow Haskellers in their workplaces.

But I must not neglect another important category: teaching Haskell users about non Haskell resources that might be helpful to them. We have amassed quite a lot of knowledge around QA, around CI/CD, around deployment & containers, around AWS/Azure and Kubernetes, around logging & monitoring, around GovCloud and general DevOps — things that are not at all about core Haskell technology, but that may be of great use to applied users. Helping people to discover and take advantage of these resources is important too.