From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-07-24T01:27:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyForge.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Mallett [mailto:steve@osdir.com] 
> 
> First post.
> 
> I run an apps site on the O'Reillly Network, OSDir.com.  It's open 
> source app biased/focused, but I for one would really like to start 
> sticking Ruby in as many places as possible to bring 
> attention to it.  
> As you can imagine there are a lot of "P" people who visit 
> the O'Reilly 
> Network sites and folks interested in learning more about the "P"s.
> 
> I've just started getting into Ruby, I'd never wanted to commit to 
> learning a language before (yes I'm aware of the irony) before 
> attending the Ruby sessions at OSCON this year.  I think Ruby 
> is really 
> onto something.
> 
> To the point, if there's any 'promotion' to be done I'd love to start 
> running with some of it and am open to suggestions on how to do so.

Hi Steve, and welcome to Ruby.  I saw your blog (Ruby, Gem of OSCON 2003) -
very nice.

I dunno if you have any influence with ORA but one way to promote the
language is more books. :)
The Ruby track at OSCON certainly helped.  I suspect that Ruby will have a
larger track next year and that will also help promote it.

I think Ruby has enough of a web presence now that most programmers have at
least heard of it.  The trick is to convince people who are using other
languages why they should take a deeper look at Ruby without sounding like
you're preaching.

Regards,

Dan