• Erlang - Download the Windows binary and get rolling. If you run Ubuntu and want to try out Erlang there see this post.
• “Learn you some Erlang for Great Good” – an excellent online book.
• Talking Shop Podcast (Erlang) - An excellent 23-minute intro to Erlang podcast with OJ Reeves (@TheColonial).
• http://erldocs.com/ - a better UI over the official Erlang docs.
• http://www.trapexit.org/ - an Erlang community wiki and forum.
• http://groups.google.com/group/erlang-programming - The Erlang Google Group
• http://twitter.com/#!/bryan_hunter/erlang - A Twitter list of Erlang developers that I maintain. This list will give you a pretty good idea of what’s going on in the community at the moment.
• http://erlangcamp.com/- A two-day Erlang/OTP conference. I went to the first one in Chicago in August 2010 and it was career-shifting good. ErlangCamp is run by the folks who wrote Manning Press Erlang book below.
• http://erlang-factory.com/- The big Erlang conference. Can’t wait to go some day.
• http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-kserl/erlang-in-practice Eight screencasts by the brilliant Kevin Smith. Worth much more than $40.
• And finally, links to the three books every Erlang developer must own. By placing all three into a prism configuration they unite to form single-use “Erlang Developer Membership Card” printer. Those guys think of everything.

Here’s my answer to “What is a good way to start learning Erlang?” (from Quora)

Here are three good steps:

1. Pull down Erlang and poke around at http://learnyousomeerlang.com. Type the examples as you go; it doesn’t work unless you do. Keep at this until you start feeling restless.
2. Buy one (or all three) of the books. They’re all good. Type the examples as you go and get really familiar with the syntax. After you’ve went through the sequential programming sections continue on to the concurrent and distributed programming chapters. Keep at this until you start spinning wheels or until you bump into the OTP chapters.
3. Go to Pragmatic’s site and buy Kevin Smith’s screencast series “Erlang in Practice” (http://pragprog.com/screencasts/…). It’s hard to express how useful these screencasts are in transferring both explicit and tacit knowledge.

Note: don’t abandon the previous steps as you move to the next—it’s an additive thing.