From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2006-10-13T00:07:25+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyforge.org still down ?

On 10/11/06, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> > i answer quite a few questions on comp.lang.ruby/ruby-talk for free.
> > lately
> > quite a few people have started contacting me directly and offered to
> > pay to
> > get quick answers to questions.  so far i haven't taken anyone up on it.
> >
> > however, i'll mention here, for posterity, that i would prioritize any
> > question/problem/bug emailed to me directly (while still cc'ing
> > ruby-talk of
> > any code) if the sender gave a donation, no matter how small, to
> > rubycentral.
> >
> > i wonder if something more organized along these lines might work out:
> >
> >   rubycentral donation => quick ruby help
> >
>
> I'd like to be considered for this, too, but I'm sure my expertise isn't
> in the same state, let alone ball-park :-)  That being said, wouldn't a
> list of the contact details of like-minded individuals posted somewhere
> prominent (say, on ruby-lang.org) be a good thing - or at least a step
> in the right direction?

I saw something like this in the MythTV wiki, so I started a stub page
in RubyGarden at
http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/HelpExchange

If it takes off, it can be linked from more prominent locations. :)

-A