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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 also 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).

### {% 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://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant) | 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), and [home-assistant-js](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-js)) 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
```
