From: Robert Evans Date: 2006-08-07T04:21:13+09:00 Subject: Re: RUBY For The Rest Of Us Conference 2006 ROUC I think it is great that someone is going to all this effort to organize a conference that accommodates the people who won't be able to get into RubyConf. He seems to be meeting a demand for a service needed by the community, in a way that also happens to involve personal time and financial risk. If it is called RUBY ROUC, it seems to be spelled correctly, it is just upper case. So, is that the problem and the reason that people who post about the case of the name don't show any appreciation that he is trying to provide something to the community? I see no big disservice being done to anyone by the conference name having upper case. Is it to prevent some sort of brand dilution for Ruby? If so, any intelligent person will know that Ruby is the name of the language despite there being a conference called RUBY ROUC. If they can't tell the difference, then do you really want them adopting the brand? Ruby RUBY ruby RuBy. Why get mean about it?. Unless, of course, it impacts the way Ruby runs on your machine. If so, we should probably just call it ruby. I don't want a flame war over religiously held feelings, I honestly just don't understand the reasoning for this uncharacteristically unfriendly behavior on this particular list which is known for its friendliness (at least in my experience.) Have a nice day! Bob On Aug 6, 2006, at 8:44 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Aug 6, 2006, at 7:20 AM, Gus S Calabrese wrote: > >> Much in the tradition of Slamdance connected to the Sundance Film >> Festival, >> the not ready for prime time programming fellows ^1 announce the >> RUBY For >> The Rest Of Us Conference. RUBY ROUC > > Two people have asked you nicely to spell Ruby correctly when > hosting events in its name. If you aren't going to listen to that, > I guess we know all we need to know about whether or not we should > be attending events with your name attached to them. > > James Edward Gray II > > > >