From: Jeremy McAnally Date: 2008-03-16T14:32:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Offering to work directly for the Ruby community! I believe using Chad and Ruby Central together would imply Chad Fowler. :) And yes I thought I remembered something about that, too, but I also missed a good chunk of the conference. --Jeremy On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:16:10PM +0900, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:15:12AM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > > > On Mar 10, 5:17 am, Thomas Wieczorek wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Gregory Brown > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > ***Through the donations of community members, I would like to put my > > > > > commercial and personal software projects on the back burner for a > > > > > prolonged period of time (3-6 months), and focus on working on open > > > > > source projects that are of high importance to the majority of > > > > > Rubyists.*** > > > > > > > > I hope you can put in at least a month. Good luck! > > > > > > Things are looking optimistic. If all the folks who emailed me pledge > > > what they suggested they would, we'll clear that no problem. > > > I also am talking to some people about larger scale donations, more on > > > that as I find out... > > > > > > Thanks for your support. > > > > Didn't Chad announce at RubyConf this past year that RubyCentral wanted to fund > > projects exactly along these lines? I'm not sure where things are on that front. > > You must be talking about some other Chad than me. > > By the way, if someone wants to solicit funding, "fundable" might be a > good place to get started: > > http://fundable.org/ > > -- > CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] > John Kenneth Galbraith: "If all else fails, immortality can always be > assured through spectacular error." > > -- http://jeremymcanally.com/ http://entp.com Read my books: Ruby in Practice (http://manning.com/mcanally/) My free Ruby e-book (http://humblelittlerubybook.com/) Or, my blogs: http://mrneighborly.com http://rubyinpractice.com