[Haskell-cafe] #haskell IRC channel reaches 600 users

[Jamie Brandon]

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 <dons at 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
>
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