From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T00:05:03+09:00
Subject: Promoting Ruby [was  [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?]

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
> this makes me think - there is a lot of presentaion material out there
> praising ruby (matz's slides, pragmatic programmer stuff, personal
> presentations).  what about pooling resources and putting
> together something
> __really__ slick and professional and putting it up on ruby-lang
> for people to
> use?  postgresql is attempting to do this... seems like a good
> idea.  if only
> we could distill _why's book... ;-)
>
> thoughts??

I think this is an excellent idea!

I think we should set up a pseudo project on RubyForge for collaboration on
this. The project wiki can be used for general brainstorming/collaboration.
CVS and released files can be used to house the resulting professional-level
promotional materials. These could include presentation slides, white
papers, comparisons, testimonials, productivity metrics, etc.

The goal would be to be an ongoing resource for people who need to promote
Ruby.

Curt

PS
  Ok... I just convinced myself! I'm going to get this set up on RubyForge.
I'll post an announcement when its ready for contributions and
collaboration. I should be able to do it this evening.