Ruby Central actually isn’t totally new; it was created last summer
and served as the parent organization of the 2002 International Ruby
Conference in Seattle. Future goals include not only future
conferences but support for other Ruby projects and initiatives.
On the Ruby Central, Inc. website you will find more information,
including an announcement of the dates and location of…
RubyConf 2003!
(Yes, it feels like the last one just ended, but it’s none too soon to
start gearing up for the next one!)
Looking forward to the next decade of Ruby programming and
community –
Ara Howard
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
Information and Technology Services
Data Systems Group
R/FST 325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
Email: ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov
Phone: 303-497-7238
Fax: 303-497-7259
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a 509(c)(3) non-profit organization (tax-exempt status pending) dedicated
to the promotion and support of Ruby and Ruby-related activities.
This is cool. Thanks for your efforts, David.
(http://www.rubycentral.org)
Off the top of my head, it seems odd having rubycentral.org and .com – will
the latter be rolled into the former (since it makes sense for .org being
related to the non-profit status), or somesuch? Or will rubycentral.com stay
as it is?
Wow, what a great day. Something to be really proud of Matz; you’re
building something of both practical, theoretical and aesthetical value to
many fellow humans on this earth. I feel fortunate to have found your
gem. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Feldt
Ps. David: Great news about the non-profit org. I guess things haven’t
really taken form yet but do you also plan to sponsor Ruby projects? I
should be looking for a job soon so if you have a bag of money…
are there still dns problems with this site? i can’t seem to pull it
down?
can you let me know the ip so i can try that?
Hi, are you actually getting a DNS resolution error? We’re running Ruby
Central on a shared IP using the hostname to differentiate between different
Apache instances, so using just the IP won’t work.
One thing that just occurred to me is that just using http://rubycentral.org
won’t work currently. I let that one slip. Will have to fix it after I’ve
slept.
If you want to try the IP, you’ll have to modify your hosts file (or
whatever it is on your platform of choice), so you can add this IP and refer
to it by name. Not much content there yet, so it’s probably not worth the
effort.
Today, February 24, 2003, is Ruby’s 10th birthday.** Happy Birthday,
Ruby! And congratz to Matz!
Wow, what a great day. Something to be really proud of Matz; you’re
building something of both practical, theoretical and aesthetical value to
many fellow humans on this earth. I feel fortunate to have found your
gem. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Feldt
Ps. David: Great news about the non-profit org. I guess things haven’t
really taken form yet but do you also plan to sponsor Ruby projects? I
should be looking for a job soon so if you have a bag of money…
Seriously, I think it will be a long time before
this sort of thing happens. (Prove me wrong, please!!)
But here’s another idea I’ve thought of.
There have been times I wanted a certain (often small)
piece of software but didn’t want to write it myself.
I have wished that I could give someone “x” dollars to
do it for me (for sufficiently small values of x).
Of course, the hourly rate might not come to what a
programmer usually makes. But look at all the work
that people do for free.
In any case, I wouldn’t be opposed to a little
bulletin board where people could swap small amounts
of money for small amounts of work.
Hal
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----- Original Message -----
From: “Robert Feldt” feldt@ce.chalmers.se
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement…
Ps. David: Great news about the non-profit org. I guess things haven’t
really taken form yet but do you also plan to sponsor Ruby projects? I
should be looking for a job soon so if you have a bag of money…
Officially, the board members are myself, David Black, and Dave Thomas.
This is more of an arrangement of convenience than anything else (we needed
the board members to complete registration with the government and the three
of us were the ones that conceived of and took action on setting up the
organization).
We’ll have to iron out the details on how we want to govern the organization
in the long run. For now, we plan to keep it as simple as possible and
focus on the next conference.
Congratulations to Matz and the community. As David says, I’m looking
forward to seeing what happens in the next decade.
Chad Fowler
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----- Original Message -----
From: “Chris Morris” chrismo@clabs.org
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement…
a 509(c)(3) non-profit organization (tax-exempt status pending)
dedicated
to the promotion and support of Ruby and Ruby-related activities.
Also … IIRC, you need to have a board of at least 3(?) members – well,
that’s a hazy, hazy memory. Anyway, any info pertaining to board members?
----- Original Message -----
From: “Robert Feldt” feldt@ce.chalmers.se
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement…
Ps. David: Great news about the non-profit org. I guess things haven’t
really taken form yet but do you also plan to sponsor Ruby projects? I
should be looking for a job soon so if you have a bag of money…
Ha! Good idea, Robert, but stand in line.
Seriously, I think it will be a long time before
this sort of thing happens. (Prove me wrong, please!!)
But here’s another idea I’ve thought of.
There have been times I wanted a certain (often small)
piece of software but didn’t want to write it myself.
I have wished that I could give someone “x” dollars to
do it for me (for sufficiently small values of x).
Of course, the hourly rate might not come to what a
programmer usually makes. But look at all the work
that people do for free.
In any case, I wouldn’t be opposed to a little
bulletin board where people could swap small amounts
of money for small amounts of work.
There is already a site which does this (it may be commercial).
Unfortunately I can not remember its name, but the basic idea is the
same, people post a description of code that needs to be written, and
other people can offer to do the jobs.
I remember that. Called sourcexhange or something? I forget.
But I meant strictly in the Ruby community.
Hal
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----- Original Message -----
From: “Colin Sampaleanu” colinml1@exis.com
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement…
But here’s another idea I’ve thought of.
There have been times I wanted a certain (often small)
piece of software but didn’t want to write it myself.
I have wished that I could give someone “x” dollars to
do it for me (for sufficiently small values of x).
Of course, the hourly rate might not come to what a
programmer usually makes. But look at all the work
that people do for free.
In any case, I wouldn’t be opposed to a little
bulletin board where people could swap small amounts
of money for small amounts of work.
There is already a site which does this (it may be commercial).
Unfortunately I can not remember its name, but the basic idea is the
same, people post a description of code that needs to be written, and
other people can offer to do the jobs.
IIRC, the site you’re thinking of was indeed commercial, and fairly quickly
degenerated into a marketplace for large-scale consulting work requests
on infrastructure-level open-source code. A more reasonable model might
be to look at the various “Q & A” sites where you can ask a question, offer
a payment of a few dollars, and then choose from the answers provided to
select a “winner” for the payout.
Alternately, there are a number of paid stock photography sites which work
on a credit-based minipayment system, where you can upload any image
or code snippet you think others will like, and anyone else who wishes to
use it pays a few credits (usually equivalent to less than $1 US) for the
download. The original creator maintains the original copyright, but anyone
paying to download it gets a free-use license for just about anything but
direct resale.
This seems like the kind of thing that could integrate very nicely with a
CPAN-like archive of available libraries and scripts: where there isn’t a
pre-existing module to do whatever function you’re looking for, you can
simply post a “bounty” in that spot, and any interested developer can take
up the task to fill in the opening.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:17:31 +0900 Colin Sampaleanu colinml1@exis.com wrote:
There is already a site which does this (it may be commercial).
Unfortunately I can not remember its name, but the basic idea is the
same, people post a description of code that needs to be written, and
other people can offer to do the jobs.
From: “Colin Sampaleanu” colinml1@exis.com
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement…
But here’s another idea I’ve thought of.
There have been times I wanted a certain (often small)
piece of software but didn’t want to write it myself.
I have wished that I could give someone “x” dollars to
do it for me (for sufficiently small values of x).
Of course, the hourly rate might not come to what a
programmer usually makes. But look at all the work
that people do for free.
In any case, I wouldn’t be opposed to a little
bulletin board where people could swap small amounts
of money for small amounts of work.
There is already a site which does this (it may be commercial).
Unfortunately I can not remember its name, but the basic idea is the
same, people post a description of code that needs to be written, and
other people can offer to do the jobs.
I remember that. Called sourcexhange or something? I forget.
sourcexchange went out of business a while back…
There was another site like too, something with ‘brain’ in the title as I
recall.
But I meant strictly in the Ruby community.
Well, maybe we could list jobs where Ruby is a requirement there as well.
