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

Online communities

User groups

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

North America

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: Northwest Functional Programming Interest Group: a Northwest Functional Programming Interest Group in Seattle.

Vancouver Haskell UnMeetup: Monthly interactive sessions, (+10) for joining

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 hacklab.to on the second Wednesday of every month! There is also a small organizational mailing list you can join to keep up to date.

Montreal Haskell Users' Group.: Meets monthly.

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.

Nashkell - Nashville Haskell Users Group

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.

Europe

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.

France

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

Netherlands

Dutch HUG: The Dutch HUG meets monthly in an informal setting.

Belgium

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

Germany

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!

Interest for User Groups in Germany

Ulm: HugUlm
Mannheim or Heidelberg: cgo (mail)
Konstanz: thkoch

Switzerland

Haskell User Group Zurich: We are meeting once a month to share knowledge of and experience with Haskell.

Geneva Haskell Meetup: We are a newly forming Haskell group in Geneva planning to meet up every second week or so.

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.

Iceland

Reykjavik Haskell User Group Iceland
Currently recruiting members

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.

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

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.

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.

Israel

IsraelHaskell User Group: Are getting organised.

Russia

Saint-Petersburg Haskell User Group
Moscow Haskell User Group
haskell-russian mailing list

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.

South America

Brazil

Grupo Brasileiro de Usuários de Haskell: Grupo criado para reunir os desenvolvedores e entusiastas que utilizam Haskell no Brasil

Bolivia

Comunidad Haskell San Simon: Haskell user group for Bolivia and spanish speaking community

Asia

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

Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying

Africa

South Africa

Lambda Luminaries: Functional programming user group based in Centurion, Gauteng.

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.

@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 ;[http://socalfp.blogspot.com/ SoCal FP Group]
+;[http://www.meetup.com/sandiegohug/ San Diego Haskell User Group]
+:a Haskell User Group for the San Diego and Tijuana region
 ;[http://bayfp.org/ The Bay Area Functional Programmers group]
@@ Line 34: / Line 37: @@
 :Meets monthly.
-;[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/21856 New York Functional Programmers Network]
+;[http://www.meetup.com/NY-Haskell/ 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.
-:Come and meet like-minded functional programmers in the New York area.  The next meeting is at 6:30pm on February 26th, at Credit Suisse's offices.  Paul Hudak from Yale will be giving a talk on real-time sound synthesis using Haskell.  Please RSVP at the [http://lisp.meetup.com/59/ NYFPN Meetup Page].
+;[http://www.meetup.com/lisp-59/ New York Functional Programmers]
+:Come and meet like-minded functional programmers in the New York area.
+;[http://www.meetup.com/Haskell-DC/ Haskell DC]
+:Washington DC area Meetup for Haskell.
 ;[http://www.lisperati.com/fringedc.html FringeDC Washington]
@@ Line 44: / Line 53: @@
 ;Toronto Haskell User Group
+:Haskellers of Toronto, unite! We meet at [http://hacklab.to hacklab.to] on the second Wednesday of every month! There is also a small organizational [http://groups.google.com/group/toronto-haskell/ mailing list] you can join to keep up to date.
-:We're having our [http://thug1.eventbrite.com/ first meetup up] at hacklab on March 7th. Please come! Haskellers of Toronto, unite!
+;[https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/haskellers-montreal Montreal Haskell Users' Group].
+:Meets monthly.
 ====Central====
@@ Line 50: / Line 62: @@
 ;[http://leibnizdream.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/new-austin-functional-programmers-group-in-2008/ Austin Functional Programmers Group]
 :See the [http://groups.google.com/group/austin-fp discussion group] for more.
+;[http://www.meetup.com/Boulder-Haskell-Programmers/ 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.
 ;[http://groups.google.com/group/real-world-haskell-book-club/browse_thread/thread/3e8e59768c8c50a9 Colorado Area Haskell Study Group]
-;[http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-chicago Chicago Haskell User Group] — new group, had first general meeting in December 2009; meeting every other month.
+;[http://ChicagoHaskell.com Chicago Haskell] — First general meeting in December 2009. — [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/haskell-chicago Mailing List] — [https://twitter.com/ChicagoHaskell @ChicagoHaskell]
 ;[http://www.meetup.com/DenHUG/ Denver Area Haskell Users Group] -- DenHUG had it's first meeting on 27 Feb 2010.  Next meeting will be 3 Apr 2010.
+;[http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Haskell-Users-Group/ Houston Haskell Users Group] -- Meets the 1st Monday of every month at [https://txrxlabs.org/ TxRx labs]
 ;[http://www.lambdalounge.org 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.
+;[http://www.meetup.com/nashkell Nashkell - Nashville Haskell Users Group]
 ===Australia===
@@ Line 68: / Line 87: @@
 ;[http://bfpg.org/ Brisbane Functional Programming Group (BFPG)] ([http://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Functional-Programming-Group-BFG/ Meetup page])
-; A group for Functional Programming with Haskell, Scala and other languages.
+:A group for Functional Programming with Haskell, Scala and other languages.
+;[http://meetup.com/PerthFP/ Perth Functional Programmers Meetup]
+:A group in Perth, WA for Functional Programming with Haskell, Scala and other languages.
 ===Europe===
 ==== UK ====
+;[http://lambdalounge.org.uk/ Manchester Lambda Lounge]
+:We are an active community meeting monthly at the [http://madlab.org.uk/ Madlab] (Manchester Digital Laboratory) to talk about topics in functional programming.
 ;[http://www.meetup.com/hoodlums/ 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.
-;[http://www.londonhug.net/ London Haskell User Group]
+;[http://www.meetup.com/London-HUG/ 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.
-:The first meeting of the London Haskell User Group took place on 23rd May 2007, at City University in central London (currently not active).
 ;[http://www.meetup.com/ed-lambda/ ed lambda (Edinburgh, UK)]
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 ==== Germany ====
+;Berlin HUG
-;[http://wiki.lug-frankfurt.de/Programmierworkshop/aktuell Haskell in Frankfurt]
+:http://www.meetup.com/berlinhug/
-:Regular Saturday Workshop, taking place every couple of months. Feel free to join us!
+;Haskell in Frankfurt
+: <ul><li>[http://www.meetup.com/Frankfurt-Haskell-User-Group Frankfurt Haskell User Group] meets monthly.</li><li> [http://wiki.lug-frankfurt.de/Programmierworkshop/aktuell Regular Saturday Workshop] taking place every couple of months. Feel free to join us!</li>
 ;[http://www.iba-cg.de/hal5.html Haskell in Leipzig]
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 : 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!
+;Interest for User Groups in Germany
-''If anyone is interested in a user group in '''Ulm, Germany''' please let me know ([[HugUlm]]).''
+* '''Ulm''': [[HugUlm]]
-''If someone is interested in a user group in '''Mannheim or Heidelberg, Germany''', please let me know (user cgo [[http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Cgo]] in this Wiki). Or
+* '''Mannheim or Heidelberg''': [[User:Cgo|cgo]] ([http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Cgo mail])
+* '''Konstanz''': [[User:Thkoch|thkoch]]
-if there is one which is not listed here, please let me know too!
 ==== Switzerland ====
-;[http://oasis.yi.org/oasis/HUGZ Haskell User Group Zurich]
+;[http://www.meetup.com/HaskellerZ/ Haskell User Group Zurich]
+:We are meeting once a month to share knowledge of and experience with Haskell.
-:A user group for the haskell users residing in Zurich and surroundings.  It's new and still being formed.
+;[http://www.meetup.com/Geneva-Haskell-Meetup/ Geneva Haskell Meetup]
+:We are a newly forming Haskell group in Geneva planning to meet up every second week or so.
 ==== Italy ====
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 ;[[Reykjavik Haskell User Group]] Iceland
 ;[http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-is Currently recruiting members]
+==== Poland ====
+;[https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103183708602453146804 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.
+==== Ukraine ====
+;[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ltu-kiev LtU-Kiev community]
+:Irregular meetups, usually with prepared talks on Haskell and other FP topics.
+;[http://ro-che.info/odhug Odessa Haskell User Group]
+:Regular informal meetups (approximately once a month) in a pub or cafe
+==== Hungary ====
+;[http://www.meetup.com/Bp-HUG 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.
+==== Norway ====
+;[http://www.meetup.com/Oslo-Haskell/ 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.
 === Israel ===
@@ Line 141: / Line 192: @@
 ;[http://spbhug.folding-maps.org Saint-Petersburg Haskell User Group]
+;[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mskhug Moscow Haskell User Group]
-:The next meeting will be held in April, 2008.
+;[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/haskell-russian haskell-russian mailing list]
 === Turkey ===
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 ;[http://www.starling-software.com/en/tsac.html Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying]
+===Africa===
+====South Africa====
+; [http://www.meetup.com/lambda-luminaries/ Lambda Luminaries] : Functional programming user group based in Centurion, Gauteng.
 == Workshops/meet ups ==