From: Steve Mallett <steve@...>
Date: 2003-07-24T01:35:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyForge.org


On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 01:27  PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

>> -----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. :)

None actually.  8^)

> 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.

On the second to last day I did notice that the Ruby in a Nutshell book 
had sold out!

> 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.

I think it has a great attaction as the language to learn if you're new 
to programming as well.  Promoting the various ruby resources will help 
in this regard.

Steve Mallett
http://open5ource.net

".. doctrine is the expression of enlightenment; it does not produce 
it."
					-Christmas Humphreys, Teach Yourself Zen