From: Brian Wisti <brianwisti@...>
Date: 2004-09-09T08:09:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Nuby forum

Hi Alexey,

I'm glad to learn that you've decided to go for it. I'd like to
volunteer to be one of the folks answering questions - especially since
I may be asking a few myself ;-) Where and how should I sign up?

-- Brian Wisti

http://coolnamehere.com/

--- Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@verk.info> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> Results of our little opinion poll so far:
> 
> 9 people are for, 
> 5 are against, 
> 2 are for only if the gateway feature is implemented (i.e., filtering
> the traffic from the forum to ruby-talk and back)
> 
> As I understand, the main reason why people vote against it is that
> community is friendly enough to nubies as is and not big enough to
> justify splitting. And I agree with both of these statements.
> 
> However, splitting the community is NOT the purpose. The purpose is
> to
> lower the entry barrier for uncommitted beginners (subscribing to a
> mail-list with 100 mails/day traffic is commitment). As people become
> more committed to Ruby, we will try to convince them to join
> ruby-talk.
> 
> [To David Black: "uncommitted beginners" may well include
> "script-kiddies". They grow up, too.]
> 
> Since enough people seem to support the idea, we are going ahead with
> it. By the way, gentlemen, I hope all of you who said "go for it"
> will
> help answer stupid questions on the forum :)
> 
> I think, it is important to address the concerns of those who voted 
> against the forum. At present, I have only a couple of ideas, maybe
> somebody will have more:
> 
> 1. Somewhere on a visible place there will be a statement along the
> lines of "Ruby-talk mailing list is the best place to discuss Ruby
> programming. Subscribe to ruby-talk today".
> 
> 2. When someone creates a new thread on ruby-forum, we will
> automatically mail notification to ruby-lang. 
> 
> I am not very comfortable with the thought of building a two-way
> communication with ruby-talk. To be more precise, I am not confident
> in
> our ability to implement it well. Bugs in such a thing would be
> HUGELY
> embarassing :)
> 
> So far, I haven't found a decent forum implementation in Ruby (a
> couple
> of simple BBSes are available on RubyForge, but nothing really
> full-featured). Therefore, we will probably host it on phpGroup for
> now
> (like this Ruby forum in Deutsch: http://www.rubyforen.de/index.php).
> 
> I have asked for a RubyForge project to do Ruby implementation of the
> forum software. We are thinking to do it on Rails. If anyone wants to
> take part in the development, please mail me off list.
> 
> To everybody who already participated in this thread: thanks!
> 
> Best regards,
> Alexey Verkhovsky
> 
> 
>