Re: [Haskell-cafe] How large is the Haskell community ?

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:

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Maybe we should have some website like the Linux Counter where you can get an official Haskell user number ? Then advertise it well.

We already have haskellers.com, almost there. =)

Well, Haskellers does have an "official" number for each registered user, but since it's using OpenID, the definition of "registered user" is a little hazy. Basically, anyone who ever logs in will get a number assigned. So I would not trust the count of total "accounts" for anything other than people who have taken some form of interest in haskellers.com. On the other hand, Haskellers does give a count on the home page of 495 public and 145 private accounts, and I *would* consider those numbers to mean something: it gives a lower bound to the number of people who are interested in Haskell enough to join a site for Haskellers. In other words: it doesn't tell us much more than we knew already. If there's interest in trying to get a more accurate count of "active" Haskellers[1], and people think haskellers.com could help somehow, let me know. Michael [1] For some definitin of active Haskeller.