From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-05-22T23:15:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails

> One thought that occurred to me while I was watching the video is that 
> I
> would really LOVE to see someone put together an entire course or two 
> on
> Ruby and distribute it online.
>
> What do y'all think?

I think that's a great idea and I've already experimented with this a 
bit. There's test on http://www.loudthinking.com/share/800x600.html 
showing how 1 minute of tutorial can be compressed down to 1 MB.

My plan was to make a whole series of these for introducing all facets 
of Rails in a form where it's very easy to follow along on your own. 
This is a somewhat time-consuming endevour, so I don't know when it'll 
be, though.


Oddball Idea: What I'd really like to see is a way for the community to 
hire within itself for tasks like this. Or to get the documentation 
done. Or similar things. I'd love to donate cash to a variety of 
projects to improve their documentation. I don't know if there's enough 
interest in Ruby to make it worthwhile for anyone to make something of 
it. Or if introducing money to open source documentation is really the 
way to go anyway.
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