Community

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

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)
• Haskell success stories
• StackOverflow
• Google+ community
• Facebook community
• Reddit
• Wiki
• The blogosphere
• Haskell Weekly

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
• East Bay Functional Programming Study Group
• Boston Haskell
• Berlin Haskell Users Group
• Chicago Haskell
• New York Haskell Users Group
• London Haskell
• Seattle Area Haskell Users' Group
• More Haskell meetups at meetup.com

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)
• LambdaJam (Chicago, IL, USA)
• Functional Conf (Bangalore, IN)
• LambdaCon (Bologna, IT)
• BOB (Berlin, DE)
• HaL (Leipzig, Halle, DE)
• Skills Matter's Haskell eXchange (London, GB)
• LambdaConf (Boulder, CO, 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:

• BayHac (Bay Area, USA)
• Hac Phi (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
• ZuriHac (Zurich, CH)

Specific Interest Groups

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