From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2009-05-19T04:27:42+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Introducing RubyScience on GitHub!

In the tradition of actions vs. words, I present to you:

RubyScience - A Collection of Ruby Science Libraries and Projects
http://github.com/jballanc/RubyScience

To get started:
 > git clone git://github.com/jballanc/RubyScience.git
 > git submodule update --init

So, initially I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice if GitHub had a way of  
creating groups to collect related projects?" Which is, of course,  
when I realized that GitHub already does... It's called Git!  
(specifically git submodules). So, this project isn't much, really, on  
its own. Eventually I'd like to automate some of the pulling/updating/ 
indexing/documenting/etc. tasks. I'd also like to have an umbrella gem  
(or perhaps many umbrella gems, i.e. rubyscience-physics, rubyscience- 
math, etc.) that would make it easier to start from scratch to do  
science with Ruby.

For now, though, RubyScience is just a collection. Please add to it! I  
also welcome comments, criticism, discussion regarding organization,  
strategy, goal, and so forth. Don't forget projects too! What better  
way to motivate yourself to finish that evolution simulation for your  
Ph.D. thesis than by showing it in all its unfinished glory to the  
world as part of the RubyScience project? (At least, that's what I'm  
going for ;-)

Cheers,

Josh