From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T00:52:26+09:00
Subject: Re: i wanna get involved

On 11/4/05, Cam <cameron.matheson@gmail.com> wrote:

> What's out there?

There is a need for a pure Ruby charting library.   If you were
interested in working on that,  could coach you because I need it
badly for one of my projects.

James and I also need a kickass Gambit game. 
(http://gambit.rubyforge.org) which could be a fun way to get started.

My current time sink is Ruport (http://ruport.rubyforge.org) and if
you have experience with databases and reporting, you could help out,
but this project is moving really quickly and changing on a day to day
basis.

You could also go fix the outstanding bug on HighLine and send a patch
to either me or James.

(http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/highline/TODO?rev=1.25&cvsroot=highline&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup)

I'm basically a ruby newbie myself or very close to it, so let me
offer you some advice.   DON'T start a free software project until you
feel that you are ready.  It's a lot better to work with someone who
has some experience and get a feel for how to build good software.  I
trainwrecked in perl for 4 years because I was trying to go it alone.

So I think it's great that you are asking around.   Keep an eye on the
list, and also, go check out RubyForge and see if anything out there
catches your eye.  There are a ton of great projects out there, you
just have to find one that you find interesting or fun.

Feel free to contact me off list about any of the above.