From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T09:38:09+09:00
Subject: Re: OSCON Call For Proposals Now Open

> We want _everyone_ to be talking about the Ruby track this year.  :)

I just submitted my proposal for a 3-hour tutorial with Ruby on Rails.  
I'll do my very best to hype the living daylights out of it as we get  
closer :)

Speaking of hype, 37signals just launched Ta-da List. 579 lines of Ruby  
on Rails powering free shareable todo lists. Close to 4,000 people have  
signed up in the first 36 hours and more than 25,000 items are already  
being tracked.

   Ta-da List:
     http://www.tadalist.com

   Behind the tech:
      
http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/01/19/make-your-ta-da-list- 
today/

So "Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity", it's been my  
experience that doing cool applications that people like to use is the  
best way of doing that. People always want to know what something is  
made of when they like it.

Between now and August, that's certainly the prime strategy I intend to  
employ to draw attention to the Ruby track at OSCON. Companies and  
individuals launching enterprise and hobby projects using Ruby on Rails  
left and right.

There's quite a long list of announcements in the pipeline on this  
front. But I'm sure it won't go off quiet when they're ready to roll.
--
David Heinemeier Hansson,
http://www.basecamphq.com/   -- Web-based Project Management
http://www.rubyonrails.org/  -- Web-application framework for Ruby
http://macromates.com/       -- TextMate: Code and markup editor (OS X)
http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain