User groups

A range of Haskell User Groups are springing up all over.

Online communities

• Haskell Reddit
• Haskell on Stack Overflow

User groups

Regular meetings in a particular geographical area. Great if you want to see and meet other Haskellers.

Africa

South Africa

Lambda Luminaries

Functional programming user group based in Centurion, Gauteng.

Asia

China

China Lisp User Group

China Lisp User Group (CLUG) is the earliest founded Lisp user group in China.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Functional Programming User Meetup Group

Japan

Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying

Tokyo Haskell Meetup

Casual monthly meetings to help each other learn Haskell

Europe

Belgium

Ghent Functional Programming Group

The Ghent Functional Programming Group will be having its first meeting on April 1, 2010.

Leuven Haskell User Group

The Leuven Haskell User Group was launched on March 3, 2015 and meets every two weeks.

France

Fr/Haskell

The Strasbourg HUG meets monthly in an informal setting. Level is very low and newbies are very welcome.

Germany

Curry Club Augsburg

http://curry-club-augsburg.de/

Berlin HUG

http://www.meetup.com/berlinhug/

Haskell in Frankfurt

• Frankfurt Haskell User Group meets monthly.
• Regular Saturday Workshop taking place every couple of months. Feel free to join us!

Haskell in Leipzig

Hal, they have videos online.

Haskell in Munich

We had our first meeting on Thursday, 29th of September 2011. We are always looking forward to see new people. If you can make it to Munich, consider joing us!

Regensburg Haskell Meetup

We meet regularly once a month since 2014. Folks from the Munich and Nuremberg area frequently join.

Interest for User Groups in Germany

• Ulm: HugUlm
• Mannheim or Heidelberg: cgo (mail), hc

Greece

Haskell Greece Google group

Hungary

Budapest Haskell User Group

The Haskell User Group is a group of Haskell enthusiasts who are interested in sharing their knowledge and meeting people who share similar interests. We had our first meeting in September 2013.

Iceland

Reykjavik Haskell User Group Iceland

Currently recruiting members

Israel

IsraelHaskell User Group

Are getting organised.

• Konstanz: thkoch

Italy

ItaloHaskell

We had a first meeting in August 2008 and we are planning a second one sometime during the 2008/2009 Autumn/Winter season.

Netherlands

Dutch HUG

The Dutch HUG meets monthly in an informal setting.

Norway

Osλo Haskell

Osλo Haskell is a group for Haskellers and people interested in Haskell and related languages in and around Oslo. We had our first meeting in March 2014.

Trondheim Haskell Users' Group

A Haskell users' group in the Trondheim area. For seasoned veterans, complete newbies who only heard of Haskell two minutes ago, and everyone in between and beyond. We meet and talk about Haskell and anything else members are interested in.

Poland

HUG Warsaw

We are the successors to the Warsaw Functional Society (Warszawskie Towarzystwo Funkcyjne) and as such we welcome any functional programmers and enthusiasts, though the focus of the group is Haskell. We (hope to) have rather informal, but regular meetings in Warsaw, Poland.

Russia

Russian community of Haskell-developers

Saint-Petersburg Haskell User Group

Moscow Haskell User Group

haskell-russian mailing list

Switzerland

Haskell User Group Zurich

We are meeting once a month to share knowledge of and experience with Haskell.

Geneva Haskell Group

We are a Haskell community in Geneva planning to meet up every week.

Turkey

Turkey Haskell Programmer's Group

Formed by Turkish Functional Programmers, the group began to communicate via an e-mail list opened by core.gen.tr. The first contribution is hlibev project by Aycan iRiCAN.

BILFP (Bilkent University Comp. Eng. Dept. Functional Programming Society) Turkey

Project aims to improve people's knowledge and encourage the use of functional programming languages — especially in Turkey. Group is open to functional-programming-related discussions and establishes related presentations at Bilkent University that are open to anybody.

UK

Manchester Lambda Lounge

We are an active community meeting monthly at the Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory) to talk about topics in functional programming.

Hoodlums - Haskell developer meetup

Meets monthly on the second Thursday of the month in Canary Wharf. It is a "Coding Dojo" format where we pick some interesting problem and solve it as a group.

London Haskell User Group

The main meetings are monthly on the last or fourth Thursday of the month. The group was revived in late 2012.

ed lambda (Edinburgh, UK)

For functional programming in general, founded by a Haskeller. First meeting will be September 13th 2010.

OxHUG - the Oxford Haskell Users Group

Meets every other week, currently at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. Discussion session followed by adjournment to a local tavern. Aimed at students, graduates, professionals and enthusiasts.

fp-southwales, the South Wales Functional Programming User Group

Starting up in late 2009, based out of Swansea University.

Ukraine

LtU-Kiev community

Irregular meetups, usually with prepared talks on Haskell and other FP topics.

Odessa Haskell User Group

Regular informal meetups (approximately once a month) in a pub or cafe

North America

Central

Austin Functional Programmers Group

See the discussion group for more.

Boulder Haskell Programmers

Boulder and Denver (Colorado) area Haskell Programmer Group. Meetings are focused on practical topics faced by working programmers. All experience levels are welcome.

Colorado Area Haskell Study Group

Chicago Haskell — First general meeting in December 2009. — Mailing List — @ChicagoHaskell

Denver Area Haskell Users Group -- DenHUG had it's first meeting on 27 Feb 2010. Next meeting will be 3 Apr 2010.

Houston Haskell Users Group -- Meets the 1st Monday of every month at TxRx labs

St. Louis Lambda Lounge -- Meets the 1st Thursday of the month. Since Dec 2008, Lambda Lounge is a user group in St. Louis organized loosely around the idea of exploring dynamic and functional languages.

Nashville Haskell Users Group (NHUG) -- Meets 1st Tuesday of each month.

East Coast

Boston Haskell Users' Group.

Meets monthly.

New York Haskell Users Group

The NY Haskell Users Group is for all programmers either interested in or experienced with the Haskell programming language. Meets monthly.

New York Functional Programmers

Come and meet like-minded functional programmers in the New York area.

Haskell DC

Washington DC area Meetup for Haskell.

FringeDC Washington

Meetings about functional programming languages in Washington DC.

Atlanta Functional Programming Users Group

Meet other functional programmers in the Atlanta area. Join us and geek out!

Toronto Haskell User Group

Haskellers of Toronto, unite! We meet at Bento Miso on the second Wednesday of every month (check the event page to be sure; it's usually up-to-date). There is also a small organizational mailing list you can join to keep up to date.

Haskellers Montreal Group.

Meets every 2 months on the first Wednesday of that month, currently at Centre Cloud.ca (previously known as RPM). Talks alternate from expert-level to more newcomer-oriented ones; and we organize through our website, a Google group and a meetup.com page.

West Coast

SoCal FP Group

San Diego Haskell User Group

a Haskell User Group for the San Diego and Tijuana region

The Bay Area Functional Programmers group

Meeting monthly in the San Francisco Bay area. See their blog for more details and news of upcoming meetings.

PDXfunc: Portland FP Group

Monthly meetings of the Portland, Oregon functional programming group. Meetings occur on the second Monday of each month at 7 pm, typically in Downtown/NW Portland.

Seattle Area Haskell Users' Group

Monthly get-togethers serving Seattle and the Eastside (see also Meetup.com for details)

Seattle: Northwest Functional Programming Interest Group

a Northwest Functional Programming Interest Group in Seattle.

Vancouver Haskell UnMeetup

Monthly interactive sessions, (+10) for joining

Oceania

Australia

FP-SYD, the Sydney (Australia) Functional Programming group

FP hackers in Sydney.

(FPU) Melbourne Functional Programming Union

The FPU is a collective of functional programming language enthusiasts, which has been in operation since 1998. We are based at the University of Melbourne, in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, but we are open to all members of the community. We meet on a regular basis for lively discussions on topics broadly associated with the declarative programming paradigm.

Brisbane Functional Programming Group (BFPG) (Meetup page)

A group for Functional Programming with Haskell, Scala and other languages.

Perth Functional Programmers Meetup

A group in Perth, WA for Functional Programming with Haskell, Scala and other languages.

South America

Bolivia

Comunidad Haskell San Simon (CHSS)

Haskell user group for Bolivia and spanish speaking community

Brazil

Grupo Brasileiro de Usuários de Haskell

Grupo criado para reunir os desenvolvedores e entusiastas que utilizam Haskell no Brasil

Ecuador

Quito Lambda

A monthly meetup about functional programming in Quito, Ecuador

Workshops/meet ups

Less regular, and move around. Usually have a few talks from invited speakers. See the Haskell homepage for a list of upcoming events.

Hackathons

Getting together to squash bugs and write new stuff. For a list of past and upcoming hackathons, see the Hackathon page.

Conferences

See the Haskell in research and Conferences page for academic workshops and conferences focusing on Haskell and related technology.