Hi all,
At RubyConf, I mentioned that I’d started to translate “How to Think Like
a Computer Scientist”[1] into Ruby, but had run out of steam (too many
other projects). I offered to put it up on Sourceforge, and run a project
to finish the translation. Alas, sf.net has turned down the project (I
have no idea why). Is anyone interested in hosting CVS (anonymous reads,
and 10 or so committers)? I’ll happily handle mailing lists and a web
page (unless you have a pressing desire to do so).
-pate
[1] This is a fairly nice CS text book, with Java, Python, and C++
editions. It’s licensed under the GFDL.
Pat Eyler
Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin
the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek
http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org
Pat Eyler wrote:
At RubyConf, I mentioned that I’d started to translate “How to Think Like
a Computer Scientist”[1] into Ruby, but had run out of steam (too many
other projects). I offered to put it up on Sourceforge, and run a project
to finish the translation. Alas, sf.net has turned down the project (I
have no idea why). Is anyone interested in hosting CVS (anonymous reads,
and 10 or so committers)? I’ll happily handle mailing lists and a web
page (unless you have a pressing desire to do so).
Have you checked to see if Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org) would be
willing to host the project instead?
Have you thought to contact the original authors of “How to think
linke a Computer Scientist?” [http://greenteapress.com] I think they
host the C++, python, and java versions at
ibiblio. [http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/] Perhaps they would be willing
to collaborate with you or a team of ruby translators.
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:26:44AM +0900, Pat Eyler wrote:
Hi all,
At RubyConf, I mentioned that I’d started to translate “How to Think Like
a Computer Scientist”[1] into Ruby, but had run out of steam (too many
other projects). I offered to put it up on Sourceforge, and run a project
to finish the translation. Alas, sf.net has turned down the project (I
have no idea why). Is anyone interested in hosting CVS (anonymous reads,
and 10 or so committers)? I’ll happily handle mailing lists and a web
page (unless you have a pressing desire to do so).
-pate
[1] This is a fairly nice CS text book, with Java, Python, and C++
editions. It’s licensed under the GFDL.
Pat Eyler
Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin
the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek
http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org
–
Alan Chen
Digikata LLC
http://digikata.com
Hi all,
At RubyConf, I mentioned that I’d started to translate “How to Think Like
a Computer Scientist”[1] into Ruby, but had run out of steam (too many
other projects).
-pate
Have you thought to contact the original authors of “How to think
linke a Computer Scientist?” [http://greenteapress.com] I think they
host the C++, python, and java versions at
ibiblio. [http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/] Perhaps they would be willing
to collaborate with you or a team of ruby translators.
hmm, I hadn’t gotten that far … I wanted to have a bit more work done
before I went showing it to people, but I guess it’s too late for that
now.
I’ll chat with them shortly.
-pate
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Alan Chen wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:26:44AM +0900, Pat Eyler wrote:
–
Alan Chen
Digikata LLC
http://digikata.com
This web site (called Savannah) is a central point for
development, distribution and maintenance of GNU Software.
At savannah.nongnu.org (previously freesoftware.fsf.org) are
hosted Free Software projects that are not an official part of the
GNU Project.
Savannah will only accept GPLed software.
-austin
– Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.11.12 at 21.07.49
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:10:55 +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:
Pat Eyler wrote:
At RubyConf, I mentioned that I’d started to translate “How to
Think Like a Computer Scientist”[1] into Ruby, but had run out of
steam (too many other projects). I offered to put it up on
Sourceforge, and run a project to finish the translation. Alas,
sf.net has turned down the project (I have no idea why). Is
anyone interested in hosting CVS (anonymous reads, and 10 or so
committers)? I’ll happily handle mailing lists and a web page
(unless you have a pressing desire to do so).
Have you checked to see if Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org)
would be willing to host the project instead?
Austin Ziegler wrote:
savanna.gnu.org
This web site (called Savannah) is a central point for
development, distribution and maintenance of GNU Software.
At savannah.nongnu.org (previously freesoftware.fsf.org) are
hosted Free Software projects that are not an official part of the
GNU Project.
Savannah will only accept GPLed software.
You are correct that unless Pat wants this project to become an
“official” part of the GNU project, he’d want to instead register it at
the “Non-GNU” site:
http://savannah.nongnu.org
On the project registration page for that site
(http://savannah.nongnu.org/register) I see the sentence:
“”"
Please note that currently we are only accepting software projects and
software documentation projects in Savannah.
“”"
Pat’s original post mentioned that the original “How to Think Like a
Computer Scientist” was licensed under the GFDL (the GNU Free
Documentation License). If the site maintainers consider the terms “…
software documentation projects …” flexible enough to include a
project like this one, I don’t think the license should be an issue.