From: David Alan Black Date: 2004-05-14T07:23:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Presenting a more unified front (Ruby webring?) Hi -- Hal Fulton writes: > Curt Hibbs wrote: > > > > Just off the top of my head, I would say that the major, active > > Ruby sites are: > > > > http://www.ruby-lang.org/ > > http://raa.ruby-lang.org/ > > http://www.ruby-doc.org/ > > http://wwwrubygarden.org/ > > http://rubyforge.org/ > > > > (my apologizes for any significant sites that I omitted). > > I'd add: > > http://rubycentral.org/ > http://ruby-talk.org/ > > at least. > > > It would be a significant step if each off these sites shared a > > common html block of links to each other (identified as Primary > > Ruby sites). > > What's a primary Ruby site, though? Some might be borderline. I think the notion of a primary site should be used very sparingly. I'd personally put ruby-lang.org and raa in that category -- or, to put it another way, perhaps *.ruby-lang.org. Beyond that I think it gets tricky, in part because of the need for some kind of consensus, which as we all know either exponentially increases the amount of time and effort involved or renders a goal literally impossible. (Would there be a committee to which one applied for Primary status? Would people maintaining these sites be drummed off the list if they refused to cross-list a site that had been voted Primary? And so forth.) [...] > > I'm not sure if rubycentral is owned by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas or > > both, but the site has not been active, and something like this > > could reinvigorate it with renewed purpose. I'm sure this could be > > worked out. > > > > To make this happen would take someone willing to do the work to organize > > and maintain the site (I can't do it, I way overbooked already). If someone > > was willing to step up to the plate and offer to put together and maintain > > something like this, I certainly would be willing to help negotiate with all > > of the players for reciprocal linking. > > I would think rubycentral.ORG might be the place for this. > > Ask David Alan Black his opinion. No one's asked, but I'll give it anyway :-) With any luck, rubycentral.org (and possibly .com, if name unification takes place) will be busy with the business of Ruby Central, Inc. Depending how that develops (and we are, believe it or not, still pursuing tax-exempt status, though there's actually reason to be optimistic that we're in the final stages of that), it may well not be the best home for a kind of day-to-day clearinghouse for Ruby info. Mind you, anything that consists of a list of links, rather than the whole tone and profile of a given site, shouldn't be a problem (except on RCRchive, where the tone and profile are those of minimalism and single-mindedness :-) David -- David A. Black dblack@wobblini.net