From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T22:29:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Vaporware: Home Automation in Ruby

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:08:04PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> >From time to time I've asked (with little success) who in the 
> Ruby community was interested in home automation.
> 
> Now I've finally set all my thoughts down in a web page.
> 
> Being a little bit obsessive, I sat up all night working 
> on this, and even came up with a name (Domo) and created a 
> little logo.

You might want to add that it's the ablative of 'domus' (house) in
Latin to the FAQ.
 
> As we all know, a software project is considered half-finished
> once the T-shirts are designed. ;)

Where's the T-shirt???? Man, this is pre-vapourware!!! :)

> This page is not linked from anywhere yet, but you can 
> find it at: http://rubyhacker.com/domo.html 
> 
> Or if you somehow have a problem with that URL, try this one:
> http://hypermetrics.com/rubyhacker/domo.html 
> which will get you to the same actual electrons. 
> 
> I do hope know that I've fleshed this out a little more, that
> someone out there will catch the vision.
> 
> It being 7:10 a.m. my time, I shall now go to bed.
> 
> Comments/criticism welcome.

I was quite amazed when I read 'What is home automation?'. Didn't know
people were _actually_ doing that.

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