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Community

Haskellers interact, talk and collaborate across several mediums and around the world. There are places to learn, to teach, to ask questions, and to find contributors and collaborators.

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Online Communities and Social Resources

Haskellers are active on a number of online areas, but the most busy are below:

• The Haskell mailing lists
• IRC (online chat)
• Matrix (online chat)
• Haskell Community Discourse
• StackOverflow
• Facebook community
• Reddit
• Wiki
• The blogosphere
• Haskell Weekly e-mail newsletter
• Haskell Gitter Community Chat
• Haskell Communities and Activities Report
• Kbin

In-person Groups and Meetups

There are a number of Haskell Users groups where haskellers meet to learn and code. Some are listed below:

• Austin Haskell Users Group
• Bay Area Haskell Users Group
• Boston Haskell
• Berlin Haskell Users Group
• Brisbane Functional Programming Group (BFPG)
• Chicago Haskell
• Dublin Haskell Meetup
• Haskell DC
• Italy Haskell Users Group
• Japan Haskell Users Group (Haskell-jp)
• New York Haskell Users Group
• Munich Haskell Meeting
• Portland Has Skill
• Seattle Area Haskell Users' Group (SeaHUG)
• More Haskell meetups at meetup.com

Committees

Haskell infrastructure is mostly maintained by committees and groups of volunteers. Here are some of the committees involved in keeping things running:

• Core Libraries Committee
• GHC Steering Committee
• Hackage trustees
• Haskell.org committee
• Stackage maintainers
• Haskell admin team: responsible for all ***.haskell.org infrastructure, including this website.

Conferences and Events

There are a number of conferences and events featuring Haskell, some focusing on the academic side of things, and some on the commercial or hobbyist side. Here are just a few:

Academic Conferences

• The Haskell Symposium
• Haskell Implementors' Workshop
• The International Conference on Functional Programming
• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
• International Symposia on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages
• Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming

Non-Academic Conferences

• Commercial Users of Functional Programming (Roving)
• Functional Conf (Bangalore, IN)
• BOB (Berlin, DE)
• LambdaConf (Boulder, CO, USA)
• Lambda Days (Kraków, Poland)
• Lambda World (Cádiz, Spain and Seattle, USA)
• Compose :: Conference (NY, NY, USA)

Hackathons

Haskell Hackathons are a long tradition, with lots of learning and social exchange. In many ways they function as semi-structured conferences. Here are some of the most notable:

• ZuriHac (Zürich, CH)
• MuniHac (Munich, DE)
• BayHac (San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA)
• Hac Phi (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
• HacFreiburg (Freiburg, De)

Specific Interest Groups

• Industrial Haskell Group
• Commercial Haskell Group
• DataHaskell: data science, machine learning, numerical computation and related
• Haskell Art

Supporting the Community

If you would like to support the Haskell community, consider donating to Haskell.org, the organization that maintains a significant part of the Haskell community infrastructure.