[Haskell-cafe] #haskell IRC channel reaches 600 users
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 #perl502 -- down 3 #ruby-lang 288 -- down #lisp264 ##javascript 241 #erlang 146 -- unchanged #perl6 129 -- unchanged #scheme 123 -- down #lua 102 -- unchanged #clojure 78 #ocaml70 -- 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
Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell IRC channel reaches 600 users
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 #perl502 -- down 3 #ruby-lang 288 -- down #lisp264 ##javascript 241 #erlang 146 -- unchanged #perl6 129 -- unchanged #scheme 123 -- down #lua 102 -- unchanged #clojure 78 #ocaml70 -- 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
Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell IRC channel reaches 600 users
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:01:06AM +, Jamie Brandon wrote: 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 I have no hard data to back this up, but I suspect that another large part of the answer is simply the fact that culture tends to be self-reinforcing. So, as I understand it, we mostly have Shae to thank for very intentionally creating a friendly culture in the first place. Many online communities simply arise without anyone giving much thought to the sort of culture they want to create; empirically, emergent online culture is not so friendly. -Brent ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
