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title: "Trivia"
description: "Home Assistant Trivia"
sidebar: false
---

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.

## 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.

## Website

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

## 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/).

## License

Home Assistant is open source software and available under the [Apache 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) license.

## Numbers

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

| Description                                                                 | 2015    | 2016      | 2017       |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | --------- | ---------- |
| [Forum posts](https://community.home-assistant.io/)                         | 352     | 33004     | 171981     |
| [Forum topics](https://community.home-assistant.io/)                        | 83      | 4863      | 21512      |
| [Forum members](https://community.home-assistant.io/)                       | 92      | 3931      | 16663      |
| [GitHub stars](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/stargazers) | 2519    | 5239      | 12074      |
| [GitHub forks](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/network)    | 374     | 1424      | 3474       |
| Page views [ha.io](/)                                                       | 600,372 | 6,614,343 | 23,727,481 |

## 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
2017: 3917
```

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

## First commit

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

```txt
commit d55e4d53cccc9123d03f45c53441e7cbfc58e515
Author: Paulus Schoutsen <Paulus@PaulusSchoutsen.nl>

    Initial commit
```
