I really dont know, what grows faster: number of professional and hobbyist programmers or number of resources they groups around (talking on they favourites: C++ or Perl, PHP or Java:). The overwhelming majority of us (nerds) are introverts, but despite that (or, may be, thanks to that), we need some "our" places in the internet. Places with reasonable ratio of "gurus" and "dummies". Places, where everybody knows *right* meanings or "apache" or "python". Places, where conversations are interesting, and interface of those conversations is convenient and unobtrusive. Like forums.

Like QAIX.

The QAIX forums are rather young, but the number of "qaix-izens" already sufficient for tranquil and productive discussions, either your path goes to web-design or to hardware support, either system programming or Oracle database administration. There is, on my opinion, a light warp to "gurus" side in forums auditory, but the community is quite kindly for "simple questions". We dont know, if it would be so while community would grow, but we hope (as a matter of fact, politics of moderation directed against arrogance and smugness). The community tries to cover all significant themes of programming (for example, extremely stormy discussions Content Management Systems and MySQL/PostrgeSQL databases flows during last monthes), so we need more and more specialists on some newest themes (like Web2.0 and AJAX).

We also have some unique plans on usage of accumulated experience (the plans of online magazine or something like that are think over inside the QAIX team). Programming professionals, future professionals and novices, you are welcome!