The document discusses the Elixir programming language community, including its artifacts like books, podcasts and articles, as well as events like meetups and conferences. It also examines characteristics of the community such as size, strength and stability, and poses questions about how to measure these characteristics and how they affect adoption of the language.

1. The Elixir Programming
Language Community
Adolfo Neto
@adolfont
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2. Tentatie Definition
A programming language community is
composed of people that produce
artifacts and organize events related to a
specific programming language.

3. Elixir
Elixir is a new (2011) functional
programming language which runs on
the Erlang virtual machine (Beam).
Wikipedia

4. Elixir
Elixir is used by Pinterest, Bleacher
Report and Discord.
Wikipedia

5. Artifacts
An artifact is anything (except software)
produced by people from the community.

6. Examples of Artifacts
- Books
- Podcasts
- Screencasts
- Articles (includes blog posts)
- Cheatsheets

7. Examples of Events
- Meetups
- Conferences
- Talks

8. Characteristics of a Community
- Size
- Strength
- Stability

9. Questions?
- How to measure the size of a community?
- How to measure the strength of a community?
- How to measure the stability of a community?
- How do those characteristics affect
programming language adoption?