From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-08-02T13:31:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Association launched


On Aug 1, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Leonard Chin wrote:

> Last friday, matz and NaCl launched the Ruby Association, "an
> organization to help development of the programming language Ruby."
>
> http://www.ruby-assn.org/
>
> There was an announcement posted by Shugo Maeda on the Japanese lists
> yesterday (see [ruby-dev:31330]). It sounds like it is closer to a
> Ruby Central for Japan than a Ruby version of the Python Software
> Foundation, so perhaps this news won't have much of an impact outside
> of Japan.
>
Looks like they formed a group to get Ruby taken more seriously in  
Japan as well as to potentially get Japanese government support for  
improving and spreading Ruby.
The impact would be real, inside and outside of Japan.