From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-05-01T05:23:47+09:00
Subject: Ruby Libraries [was Opportunities and pitfalls; was "Introducing myself - Sascha Ebach"]

Mark Hubbart wrote:
>
> If we had a site like I described, anyone interested in GUI toolkits
> would go to the site, and look under that category; see what other
> people had been talking about on message boards, see proposed ideas,
> etc... all in one place. It could be integrated with RAA and RubyForge
> (once it matured somewhat) so that it would make it a simple thing to
> go from conception to implementation, while gathering as many
> interested people as possible. It could help people who want to help,
> but aren't as advanced, to find projects that they are interested in
> helping with.
>
> I realize that this is a large idea; but I wonder what other people
> would think about setting something like that up. Am I missing
> something? Are there existing methods that would be as good or better?
> Do we just need to publicize certain ways of doing things?

I think this is a good idea.

A simple, incremental way to test the waters on this would be to set up a
RubyForge project ("Ruby Libs"??) that would exist for holding a Wiki and
Mailing List (not really for code). If you are interested, I could get this
set up and we could see if we could get enough participation to make it
worthwhile. Email me off-list if you want to discuss this.

Curt