Where are the Crystal communities and enthusiasts?

[kytrinyx]

As we move towards the launch of the new version of Exercism we are going to be ramping up on actively recruiting people to help provide feedback.

Our goal is to get to 100%: everyone who submits a solution and wants feedback should get feedback. Good feedback. You can read more about this aspect of the new site here: http://mentoring.exercism.io/

To do this, we're going to need a lot more information about where we can find language enthusiasts.

• Is Crystal supported by one or more large organizations?
• Does Crystal have an official community manager?
• Do you know of specific communities (online or offline) that are enthusiastic about Crystal? (Chat communities, forums, meetups, student clubs, etc)
• Are there popular conferences for Crystal? (If so, what are some examples?)
• Are there any organizations who are targeted specifically at getting certain subgroups or demographics interested in Crystal? (e.g. kids, teenagers, career changers, people belonging to various groups that are typically underrepresented in tech?)
• Are there specific groups or programs dedicated to mentoring people in Crystal?
• Are there popular newsletters for Crystal?
• Is Crystal taught at programming bootcamps? (If so, what are some examples?)
• Is Crystal taught at universities? (If so, what are some examples?)

In other words: where do people care a lot and/or know a lot about Crystal?

This is part of the project being tracked in exercism/meta#103

[mhelmetag]

Is Crystal supported by one or more large organizations?

Crystal is made/supported by Manas (and supported by other companies/individuals).

Does Crystal have an official community manager?

I'm not entirely sure but Ary Borenszweig (asterite), one of the creators of Crystal, seems to comment on most of the PRs for the Crystal repo. They've also made some contributions to the Crystal exercises repo for Exercism.

Do you know of specific communities (online or offline) that are enthusiastic about Crystal? (Chat communities, forums, meetups, student clubs, etc)

Crystal has a google group and gitter chat listed on their community page: https://crystal-lang.org/community/. There's also a subreddit for sharing work done in Crystal.

Are there popular conferences for Crystal? (If so, what are some examples?)

Not yet but hopefully as it becomes more mature!

Are there any organizations who are targeted specifically at getting certain subgroups or demographics interested in Crystal? (e.g. kids, teenagers, career changers, people belonging to various groups that are typically underrepresented in tech?)

Not that I know of/can find online.

Are there specific groups or programs dedicated to mentoring people in Crystal?

The gitter channel and google group would be great places to start. There's also a tag for Crystal on stackoverflow.

Are there popular newsletters for Crystal?

There's the Crystal Blog (https://crystal-lang.org/blog) and Crystal Weekly ()

Is Crystal taught at programming bootcamps? (If so, what are some examples?)

I don't think so.

Is Crystal taught at universities? (If so, what are some examples?)

I doubt it. It's very new.

[kytrinyx]

This is great, thanks for the writeup @mhelmetag!