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‎resources/content/pages/board-nominations/board-nominations-en.md

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about_title: en (English) Nominations for the Haskell Foundation Board of Directors
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about_content:
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about_page_title: Haskell Foundation Board Call for Nominations
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about_page_content: |
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The Haskell Foundation seeks nominations for the Foundation Board.
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The Haskell Foundation is a new non-profit organisation that seeks
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to articulate the benefits of functional programming to a broader
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audience, to erase barriers to entry, and to support Haskell as a
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solidly reliable basis for mission-critical applications.
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### The Foundation Board
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#### Remit of the Board
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The Board provides the strategic leadership for the Foundation. More specifically
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* Governance: leadership and direction - set strategy, provide guidance
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* Staff: appoint senior members of Foundation staff
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* Define, curate and track Foundation goals
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* Seek out opportunities to further the goals of the Foundation
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* Represent the Haskell community to the world: liaise with sponsors, public bodies (ACM, standards committees) etc
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* Ensure success and long-term continuity of the Foundation
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* Receive and review financial accounts
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#### Membership
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* Being a member of the Board is not an honorary post; it involves real work. There will typically be ad-hoc or permanent working groups, on which Board members are expected to serve or chair.
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* The Board needs to be big enough to have a breadth of expertise and representation, but small enough to be effective. We will start with a Board of 12 members.
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* Once appointed, board members should act in the best interests of the Foundation and the entire Haskell community; they are not appointed to represent the interests of a particular group.
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* Members will have fixed terms, to ensure a steady turnover of members. There is a balance here: it’s a pity to lose strong, well-qualified members too quickly. The details remain to be settled, but will be something like: three or four year terms, but with the possibility of being renewed once, and the possibility of returning after a gap.
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* Terms will be staggered so that a similar number of members reach the end of their term at regular intervals. “Regular intervals” might mean annually or every two years; again there is a balance between providing a regular “way in” and the overheads of nomination, selection, and onboarding.To bootstrap this process the Interim Board may invite some members to serve for shorter initial terms.
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* No two members should be paid employees of the same organisation
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The Executive Director reports to the board, attends all board
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meetings, but does not vote.
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The initial membership of the Board will be chosen by the Interim
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Board, based on open nominations against written criteria. (After
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this bootstrap process, the Board itself chooses its new members,
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based on a similar call for nominations.) This document is the call
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for nominations.
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#### Key Roles
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* Chair (elected annually by the Foundation Board members)
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* Treasurer
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* Secretary
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#### Transparency
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The Board should conduct its business as transparently as
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possible. Specifically:
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* It should publish public minutes of meetings and decisions.
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* It should be open about its finances: where money comes from, and what it is spent on.
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* It should conduct most conversations on a publicly-readable mailing list.
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In all cases there may be some aspects of the Board’s work that should
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properly be private, e.g. relating to security, staff, or money. The
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Board will have to make judgements about this, but the strong default
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is to work in public.
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### Nominations for the Board
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Please submit your nomination to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]),
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by **Monday 11 January 2021**.
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Your nomination should be accompanied by a brief CV and a covering
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letter that says
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* How you fit the criteria below.
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* Why you would like to be a Board member
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* What you feel you could contribute
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Please indicate whether you would consider the role of Secretary
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(legal knowledge/experience useful) or Treasurer (financial
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knowledge/experience useful).
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These nominations will be evaluated by the [Interim
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Board](/who-we-are), which will disband once the Foundation Board
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is in place. Its members are:
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* Lennart Augustsson (Epic Games)
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* Chris Dornan (IRIS Connect)
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* Jasper van der Jeugt (haskell.org)
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* Gabriele Keller (Utrecht University)
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* Ed Kmett (Miri)
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* Simon Marlow (Facebook)
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* Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)
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* Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania)
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### Criteria
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Nominations for membership of the Board will be evaluated against
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the following criteria:
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* You have a positive drive and vision for the Haskell community and ecosystem
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* You have a track record of contribution to the Haskell community and ecosystem
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* You are widely trusted and respected in the community.
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* You have enough time and energy to devote to being a member of the board; it is not an honorary position!
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The Interim Board will seek to appoint a Board that, collectively,
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satisfies these criteria:
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* Includes individuals with the skills, expertise and experience (e.g. technical, legal, organisational, community-building) that the Board needs.
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* Reflects the rich diversity (e.g. of age, gender, geographical spread) that is in the Haskell community.
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* Includes individuals who are well-equipped to reflect the priorities of Haskell’s various constituencies, including
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- Companies that use Haskell in production, and Haskell consultancies; giving this group a stronger voice is one of the HF’s main goals.
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- Users of Haskell. That might include companies, but also includes the broader open-source community, hobbyists, etc.
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- Sponsors: companies (or even individuals) who are funding the Foundation.
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- People who build and run the infrastructure of the Haskell ecosystem: compilers, libraries, packaging and distribution, IDEs etc.
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- Educators, including school, university, and commercial training courses.
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- Functional programming researchers who build on and/or develop Haskell.
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NB: nominations are also welcome from individuals who meet other
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criteria but do not represent any particular constituency.
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Simultaneously hitting all these criteria is nigh impossible.
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However, each subsequent round of nominations for new Board
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members offers a fresh chance to rectify any imbalances.
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news_page_title: News
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news_page_content: |
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### Check us out on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/haskellfound)
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Simon Peyton-Jones Announces The Haskell Foundation
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### 05 November, 2020
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#### 05 November, 2020
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#### Haskell Foundation Announced
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Today Simon Peyton-Jones announced the formation of The Haskell Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on increasing adoption of the Haskell programming language. Name Pending will serve as the Executive Director of the new foundation, alongside interim board members Simon Peyton-Jones, Simon Marlow, and Ed Kmett.
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Haskell.org Committee Announces Haskell Foundation Affiliation
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The Haskell Foundation is pleased to announce that the haskell.org committee has voted to affiliate with the Haskell Foundation.
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Core Libraries Committee Announces Haskell Foundation Affiliation
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#### 05 November, 2020
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The Haskell Foundation is pleased to announce that the core libraries committee has voted to affiliate with the Haskell Foundation.
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GHC Steering Committee Announces Haskell Foundation Affiliation
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#### Haskell Foundation Board of Directors Call for Nominations
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The Haskell Foundation is pleased to announce that the GHC steering committee has voted to affiliate with the Haskell Foundation.
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Today the Haskell Foundation announces that it has opened the [call for
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nominations for the Board of Directors](/board-nominations). Nominations
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will remain open until January 11, 2021. The nominations will be voted on by
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the current [Interim Board of Directors](/who-we-are).
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‎src/pages/board-nominations.js

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import React from 'react'
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import Grid from '@material-ui/core/Grid'
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import Layout from '../components/Layout'
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import Page from '../components/Page'
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import BoardNominationsPageQuery from '../queries/BoardNominationsPageQuery'
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import Markdown from '@input-output-hk/front-end-core-components/components/Markdown'
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export default () => (
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<BoardNominationsPageQuery
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render={(content) => (
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<Layout>
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<Page title={content.about_page_title}>
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<Grid container spacing={2}>
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<Grid item xs={12}>
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<Markdown source={content.about_page_content} />
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</Grid>
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</Grid>
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</Page>
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</Layout>
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)}
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/>
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)

‎src/queries/BoardNominationsPageQuery.js

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import React from 'react'
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import PropTypes from 'prop-types'
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import { StaticQuery, graphql } from 'gatsby'
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import Language from '@input-output-hk/front-end-core-components/components/Language'
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const BoardNominationsPageQuery = ({ render }) => (
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<Language.Consumer>
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{({ key: lang }) => (
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<StaticQuery
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query={graphql`
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query {
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allFile(filter:{relativePath:{glob:"content/pages/board-nominations/*.md"}}) {
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nodes{
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relativePath,
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childMarkdownRemark{
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frontmatter {
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about_content {
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about_page_title
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about_page_content
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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`}
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render={({ allFile }) => {
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const content = allFile.nodes.filter(node => node.relativePath === `content/pages/board-nominations/board-nominations-${lang}.md`).shift()
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if (!content || !content.childMarkdownRemark) throw new Error(`No affiliates board-nominations found for language ${lang}`)
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return render(content.childMarkdownRemark.frontmatter.about_content)
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}}
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/>
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)}
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</Language.Consumer>
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)
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BoardNominationsPageQuery.propTypes = {
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render: PropTypes.func.isRequired
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}
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export default BoardNominationsPageQuery

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