The haskell community has a well deserved reputation for being one of the friendliest online communities. Perhaps this would be a good point to figure out what we're doing right? I'm convinced that part of it is that offtopic conversation is encouraged through on haskell-cafe, planet haskell and irc. It makes people seem more human and hence harder to flame.
Jamie On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > > A small announcement :) > > 7 years after its inception, under the guiding hand of Shae Erisson (aka > shapr), the #haskell IRC channel[1] on freenode has reached 600 > concurrent users! It's now in the top 3 language channels by size. > > To chart the growth, we can note that the channel was founded in late > 2001, and had slow growth till 2006, reaching 200 users in January of > that year. Since then growth in the user base has been far more rapid, > reaching 300 users in Dec 2006, 400 users in August 2007, 500 users > by July 2008, and 600 on January 2, 2009. > > This puts the channel at the 7th largest community of the 7000 freenode > channels, and in the top 3 language communities. For comparision, a > sample of the state of the other language communities, with comments > comapred to their status a year ago: > > #php 612 > #python 604 > > > #haskell 602 -- up 4 > > ##c++ 558 > ##c 506 -- down 1 > #perl 502 -- down 3 > #ruby-lang 288 -- down > #lisp 264 > ##javascript 241 > #erlang 146 -- unchanged > #perl6 129 -- unchanged > #scheme 123 -- down > #lua 102 -- unchanged > #clojure 78 > #ocaml 70 -- unchanged > > You can see the growth of the channel over here: > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel > > If you've not dropped by the channel yet, feel free to come and chat, > and toss around some lambdas! :) > > Cheers, > Don > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe