From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-03-19T12:34:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Thinking about a date-matching algorithm...

mlipper@US-ABP.com wrote:
> Hey Jim, 
> 
> Is ECal going to be a public project? Are you welcoming acolytes? Runt works
> just fine (for an 0.0.6 release), but I've created it mostly as a way to
> learn Ruby; I'd gladly merge/scrap it for an opportunity to learn from a
> more experienced Rubyist.

ECal is actually a learning project for our XP Users group.  Once a 
month we get together and work on it for a few hours, practicing 
pairing, TDD, and writing acceptance tests.

If you wish to work on ECal ... feel free to show up at Children's 
Hospital in Cincinnati and do some pairing.  We meet the first Tuesday 
of the month. :-)  (Link: http://objectwind.com/xp-cinci/)

Seriously, since it is a learning project, we are not looking for 
independent, remote developers.  However, if you wish to take it and run 
with it independently ... feel free.  Let me warn you however, working 
on it only a few hours every month doesn't move the project along very 
fast.  So there is very little there at this time.  I will populate the 
RubyForge CVS tree soon (before the next XP-Cincy meeting for sure).

BTW, folks might be interested in noting that the group is made up of 
mostly Java programmers.  At any given meeting there will be between 4 
to 6 pairs of Java programmers and 1 pair of Ruby programmers.  Yet, the 
Ruby version of ECal is keeping pace with the Java version.  Part of 
that is due to the nature of Ruby, and part is the fact that with fewer 
programmers, we don't thrash between alternatives as much as the larger 
Java group.

Thanks for your interest.

-- 
-- Jim Weirich    jim@weirichhouse.org     http://onestepback.org
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