From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-09-07T11:02:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Nuby forum

> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 04:04, James Britt wrote:
>> But this sort of community segmentation *might* lead to a Nuby ghetto.
>
> I recognized the danger that you describe, and was thinking to address
> it by:
>
> (a) cross-posting questions that cannot be answered on the nuby forum to
> ruby-talk, then cross-posting digested answers back to the forum.
>
> (b) encouraging people on the forum to join ruby-talk and ask the
> not-so-trivial questions there.
>
> I've "agitated" 3-4 guys to start learning Ruby in the last couple of
> months, and all had problems with ruby-talk as described in the original
> email.

It seems like you have enough of an idea of what's going on in
newbie-land, so I think it's a good idea.

What would be nice is a regular (fortnightly?) post to ruby-talk which
summarised activity in the forum.  It's only a one-way bridge between the
communities, but it keeps the "old hands" informed, should there be a need
for expert comment.

That's obviously a manual effort, but one I'm sure you'll agree would be
worthwhile.

Cheers,
Gavin