> the Clojure community, from my understanding, tends to concentrate around the same tools.
I'd say relative to it's size the Clojure community is quite diverse in it's tooling and library ecosystem, compared to say, Ruby. Because of the dispersion of projects and interest, we survey our members quarterly and pick projects based on the survey results.
> Anyone know of any other language communities with similar foundations?
We got the idea from Ruby Together - https://rubytogether.org.
> the Clojure community, from my understanding, tends to concentrate around the same tools.
I'd say relative to it's size the Clojure community is quite diverse in it's tooling and library ecosystem, compared to say, Ruby. Because of the dispersion of projects and interest, we survey our members quarterly and pick projects based on the survey results.