hl/static/markdown/irc.md

# IRC Channels

The IRC channel can be an excellent place to learn more about Haskell,
and to just keep in the loop on new things in the Haskell world. Many
new developments in the Haskell world first appear on the irc channel.

Point your irc client to `chat.freenode.net` and then join the
`#haskell` channel.

Alternately, you can try
[http://java.freenode.net/](http://java.freenode.net/) or
[http://webchat.freenode.net/](http://webchat.freenode.net/) which
connects inside the browser.

## Logs

Searchable logs are available on IRC Browse for:

* [#haskell](http://ircbrowse.net/haskell) —
  [recent messages](http://ircbrowse.net/day/haskell/today/recent)
* [#haskell-game](http://ircbrowse.net/haskell-game) —
  [recent messages](http://ircbrowse.net/day/haskell-game/today/recent)
* [#diagrams](http://ircbrowse.net/diagrams) —
  [recent messages](http://ircbrowse.net/day/diagrams/today/recent)
* [#tasty](http://ircbrowse.net/tasty) —
  [recent messages](http://ircbrowse.net/day/tasty/today/recent)
* [#haskell-distributed](http://ircbrowse.net/haskell-distributed) —
  [recent messages](http://ircbrowse.net/day/haskell-distributed/today/recent)

Plain text logs are also available at
[tunes](http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/haskell/).

## Related channels

<table class="table">
<tr><th>Channel</th><th>Purpose</th></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-br</td><td> Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.cz</td><td> Czech speakers (UTF-8)</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.de</td><td> German speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.dut   </td><td> Dutch speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.es</td><td> Spanish speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.fi</td><td> Finnish speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-fr</td><td> French speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.hr</td><td> Croatian speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.it</td><td> Italian speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.jp</td><td> Japanese speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.no</td><td> Norwegian speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.pt</td><td> Portuguese speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-pl</td><td> Polish speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.ru</td><td> Russian speakers. Seems that most of them migrated to Jabber conference (haskell@conference.jabber.ru).</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell_ru</td><td> Russian speakers again, in UTF-8. For those, who prefer good ol' IRC channel with a lambdabot.</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.se</td><td> Swedish speakers</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell.tw</td><td> Chinese speakers (mainly in Taiwan)</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-blah  </td><td> Haskell people talking about anything except Haskell itself</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-game  </td><td> The hub for Haskell-based game development</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-in-depth  </td><td> slower paced discussion of use, theory, implementation etc with no monad tutorials!</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-iphone</td><td> Haskell-based iPhone development</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-apple </td><td> Projects that target iOS or OS X using Haskell.</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-lisp  </td><td>Haskell Lisp - projects that are creating Lisps written in Haskell, or Haskell implementations written in Lisps.</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-llvm  </td><td> For projects using Haskell and LLVM</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-overflow  </td><td> Overflow conversations</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-web   </td><td> Friendly, practical discussion of haskell web app/framework/server development</td></tr>
</table>

## Platform-specific
<table class="table">
<tr><th>Channel</th><th>Purpose</th></tr>
<tr><td>#arch-haskell  </td><td>Arch Linux/ specific Haskell conversations</td></tr>
<tr><td>#fedora-haskell</td><td>Fedora Haskell SIG</td></tr>
<tr><td>#gentoo-haskell</td><td>Gentoo/Linux specific Haskell conversations</td></tr>
</table>

## Projects using haskell
<table class="table">
<tr><th>Channel</th><th>Purpose</th></tr>
<tr><td>#darcs </td><td>Darcs revision control system</td></tr>
<tr><td>#diagrams  </td><td>Diagrams EDSL</td></tr>
<tr><td>#hackage   </td><td> Haskell's software distribution infrastructure</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-lens  </td><td>Lens discussions</td></tr>
<tr><td>#happs </td><td>Happstack web framework</td></tr>
<tr><td>#tasty </td><td>Tasty test framework</td></tr>
<tr><td>#hledger   </td><td>hledger accounting tools and library</td></tr>
<tr><td>#leksah</td><td>Leksah IDE for Haskell development</td></tr>
<tr><td>#perl6 </td><td>Perl 6 development (plenty of Haskell chat there too)</td></tr>
<tr><td>#snapframework </td><td>Snap web framework</td></tr>
<tr><td>#xmonad</td><td>Xmonad tiling window manager</td></tr>
<tr><td>#yesod </td><td>Yesod web framework</td></tr>
<tr><td>#haskell-distributed </td><td>Distributed Haskell discussion</td></tr>
<tr><td><tr><td>#chicagohaskell</td><td>Chicago Haskell programmers
group</td></tr>
</table>