From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-09-07T11:24:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Nuby forum

yes interesting, a rehash of what goes on would be
nice. Good idea gavin ;) I think the new ruby
programmer forum would be a good idea.

--David Ross
--- Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:

> > 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
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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