A small announcement :) 5 years after its inception, under the guiding hand of Shae Erisson (aka shapr), the #haskell IRC channel[1] on freenode has finally reached 300 users! We reached 200 users in January, 250 users for the first time in August, and didn't expect hit to reach 300 for a while. Then last night: 12:50 lambdabot> Maximum users seen in #haskell: 305 This puts the channel at around position 15 of the 4000 freenode channels. For comparision, a sample of the state of the other language communities: #perl 484 #php 474 #c 381 #c++ 379 #ruby 368

#haskell 305 #python 303 #lisp 214 #java 213 #javascript 156 #scheme 112 #lua 72 #ocaml 56 #sed 35 #d 33

You can see the growth of the channel over here: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/irc/nick-activity.png If you've not dropped by the channel yet, feel free to come and chat, and toss around some lambdas! :) Cheers, Don 1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel