From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-03-04T09:20:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Boy I love the Ruby community

Robert Dober wrote:
> On 3/3/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>>
>> Seriously, though, someone ought to do a sociological study of
>> "benevolent dictators" like Matz, DHH, Guido and Linus (Torvalds) and
>> the communities that have formed around them.
> That is very interesting, I have *never* thought/had the feeling that
> the community is build around Matz, maybe that is the sign of a true
> leader.
> But I am limited to the ML as nbody has yet invited me to a RubyConv
> as a speaker ;)
>
> But I agree 100% that he is an incredibly nice and easy going person.

Matz personally answered my very first post to ruby-talk. That was Feb 
27, 2002, just a hair over 5 years ago. I was surprised and pleased and 
have remained that way ever since.