Community

There are several places you can go to "meet" other people that use Lua. A good starting point is lua-users.org, a collaborative meeting place built for and by Lua users. One of the focal points of the Lua community is our mailing list, which is very active and friendly; it has over 1500 subscribers from all over the world, including several Lua experts and the Lua team. Other meeting places are the chat room and the forum. Lua is also frequently cited in usenet newsgroups.

Part of the Lua community met in person during the Lua Workshop 2005 and the Lua Workshop 2006. The main event in 2007 was the talk on the evolution of Lua at ACM HOPL III. There was also a workshop on LuaTeX held at TUG 2007. A Lua Workshop 2008 is going to be held in Washington, D.C.

For a sample of exciting products and projects that use Lua, see our list of user projects. You can also read what users have said about Lua and some pieces about Lua that have appeared in the press.

You can contribute to the community in several ways: collaborate in the lua-users wiki, add your project to our list, answer our survey, add a Lua logo to your web page, tell us about third-party sites related to Lua and papers and theses about Lua, write tools and libraries for Lua, add them to LuaForge, or share your experience in a Lua Programming Gem.

Please consider supporting the Lua project by buying a copy of the reference manual or by making a donation.