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. 
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.
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.
Regards,
Dan
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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.
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
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