Affiliation with the Haskell Foundation

Hi All,

I'd like to formally invite the Cabal team and its advisors to collaborate directly with the Haskell Foundation as affiliates. As many of you know, the HF has been quite successful in bringing many distant parts of the community together to get them talking, collaborating, and generally working together. I think this a great opportunity for Cabal. Particularly, because Cabal is an integral part of the tooling system, which affects everyone else.

## What does Affiliation Entail?

It's a pledge to abide by the Guidelines For Respectful Communication (GRC) defined [here](https://haskell.foundation/guidelines-for-respectful-communication/#:~:text=We%20strive%20to%20treat%20every%20person%20with%20respect.&text=Even%20if%20we%20occasionally%20doubt,or%20harassment%20in%20our%20communication.), and an invitation to join us in our Slack to help plan our technical agendas, and to communicate with all of our other affiliates.

A slack link may be found here: https://join.slack.com/t/haskell-foundation/shared_invite/zt-mjh76fw0-CEjg2NbyVE8rVQDvR~0F4A

Additionally, the HF makes sure that any resource requests (e.g. maintainers, hardware etc.) are handled appropriately. If Cabal is having trouble locating people to maintain, we can help! The HF does not expect to dictate or change the way maintenance is done in any way, nor dictate the course of projects - only make sure that they are well-supported and happy, and if there is a particular feature request in our agenda, we work with existing tooling to avoid writing a brand-new solution. We focus on honoring community contributions instead of building our own from scratch.

The full details may be found here: https://haskell.foundation/en/affiliates/

## How does Cabal affiliate?

Just say yes! As of now, Cabal satisfies all the requirements for affiliation. We will provide a link on our website, and a platform for sharing requests and interaction with the rest of the community, and that's it. Easy!