[ruby-talk:01266] Re: Popularizing Ruby outside of Japan

From: Dave Thomas <[e-mail]>

> [e-mail] (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
>
> > I believe it would be a very good idea to make a concerted effort to
> > popularize Ruby outside of Japan -- a P/R campaign.  I have a few ideas
> > how to do this:
>
> I think it would be tremendous! However, I also think it's just a
> couple of months premature. In order to build a strong and growing
> base of developers outside Japan, what we need most of all is more
> complete English-language documentation and sample code. Without this,
> we'll attract people who come to the site, get confused, and drift
> away. So I'd say "yes", we need to do this, but not until we're
> ready. (We'll be making some announcements this week or next which
> will be relevant here).

*Very* important points; well put.

I think it is also a good idea to get the English newsgroup going first. I
hope to get the revised comp.lang.ruby RFD (request for discussion) sent out
in the next few days. IIRC, there follows a 1 month discussion period on a
special newsgroup for such things, followed by a 1 week voting period.

Conrad