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title: "Trivia"
description: "Home Assistant Trivia"
date: 2015-11-03 19:00
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This page contains only irrelevant and unhelpful information about Home Assistant. If you are going to prepare a talk about Home Assistant, perhaps some information mentioned here can be used for the intro.

### {% linkable_title Name %}

Isn't it obvious? Home Assistant is the good soul that is assisting you in your home. It's common to refer to Home Assistant simply as HA or `hass` (not to be confused with the German word "Hass", it's more like the abbreviation of **H**ome **A**ssistant **S**erver **S**ervice). [`hass`](/docs/tools/hass/) is also the name of the command-line part.

### {% linkable_title Website %}

The website [https://home-assistant.io](https://home-assistant.io) was launched on December 18, 2014 and contains documentation about the setup process, the platforms and components, and for the developers.

### {% linkable_title Logo %}

The current logo was created by [Jeremy Geltman](http://jeremygeltman.com/). Further details can be found in the [announcement](/blog/2015/03/08/new-logo/).

### {% linkable_title License %}

Home Assistant is open source software and available under the [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) license.

### {% linkable_title Numbers %} 

This sections just contains some random numbers of the Home Assistant eco-system. Sorry, only the main repository counts.

| Description | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|
| [Gitter.io](https://discord.gg/c5DvZ4e) | 334 | 2367 |
| [Forum posts](https://community.home-assistant.io/) | 352 | 33004 |
| [Forum topics](https://community.home-assistant.io/) | 83 | 4863 |
| [Forum members](https://community.home-assistant.io/) | 92 | 3931 | 
| [Github stars](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/stargazers)  | 2519 | 5239 | 
| [Github forks](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/network) | 374 | 1424 |
| Page views [ha.io](https://home-assistant.io) | 190,271 | 1,284,855 | 

### {% linkable_title Commit per year %}

The numbers below only covers the [main git repository](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/) and doesn't take the helpers ([home-assistant.io](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io), [home-assistant-polymer](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer), etc.) into account.

```bash
2013: 147
2014: 328
2015: 2963
2016: 4299
```

More details and statistics can be found on [Github](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/graphs/contributors).

### {% linkable_title First commit %}

The first commit in `git` was made on Sep 17, 2013 by [Paulus Schoutsen](https://github.com/balloob). 

```bash
commit d55e4d53cccc9123d03f45c53441e7cbfc58e515
Author: Paulus Schoutsen <Paulus@PaulusSchoutsen.nl>
Date:   Tue Sep 17 00:32:51 2013 -0700

    Initial commit
```
