The IHG members decided to fund Hackage 2 not just because they are good citizens, but out of enlightened self-interest. Hackage has over 5000 packages written by over 1000 people – including the world's best Haskell developers. This is a massive resource. The IHG members recognise that improvements to the tools and infrastructure that the community uses helps the community to produce more and better code. This is in the interest of everyone in the community, including the Well-Typed and the Industrial Haskell Group (IHG) are very pleased to announce that Hackage 2 is now available for public beta testing. The plan is to do the final switchover in late September, to coincide with ICFP.