From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-06-07T12:41:06+09:00
Subject: [OT] Speaking of pledges for Ruby projects

Hi everyone,

I am looking for pledges so that I can continue to work on some fantastic
open source Ruby projects that are, in my opinion, of great benefit to the
Ruby programming community at large.

http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640

The project I will spend the majority of my time on is called "Win32Utils".
Win32Utils consists of a collection of libraries specifically aimed at the
Microsoft Windows operating system.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/

Libraries consist of interfaces for the clipboard, the event log, file
system monitoring, services and so on. It is one of the most downloaded
projects on RubyForge.

Another project I will be focusing on is called "SysUtils". The SysUtils
project is a collection of libraries that target system adminstration
issues. This includes interfaces for gathering process information,
administering users, gathering CPU information and so on.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/sysutils/

There is also the "Shards" project, a miscellaneous collection of libraries
that range from generating HTML tables, to finding files on your file
system, to replacements for older code that exists in the Ruby standard
library.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/shards/

Another project that is incredibly important in my opinion is the "Pure"
project. This project consists of pure Ruby versions of popular C libraries,
such as zlib or win32ole.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/pure

On top of all that I would like to spend time contributing to other
important projects, such as rubygems.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems

If you feel that these are worthwhile efforts, please contribute, and spread
the word!

Regards,

Dan