Ruby Central 2005 Codefest Grant recipients

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From: gabriele renzi
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:48:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Central 2005 Codefest Grant recipients
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David A. Black ha scritto:

3. Gambit (James Edward Gray II)

Gambit is pure Ruby framework for building multiplayer Web games
offering two key services: Game management and design tools. Gambit
can manage player's accounts, game hosting and joining, player
histories, in-game communication systems and out-of-game notifications
for in-game activities.

I think a different name would be better, to avoid name collision with
gambit scheme[1].
Actually, I read about this project here and on rubyforge and both times
I thought "cool, a module to compile ruby using the gambit scheme
implementation!"

[1]http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/

I thank you for bringing this to my attention, but as near as I can tell, this has nothing to do with Ruby or Ruby libraries. I think ruling all non-Ruby names out of our choices would be a disservice to our users.

Plus, as a tournament chess player, "Gambit" makes a lot more sense to me in this instance than the one you point out. (No offense intended.)

So, I would prefer not to change. I consider the name to be well chosen (we debated our options for some time) and this conflict seems vague to me. Of course, if this message earns me a lot of hate mail, I'll reconsider. :wink:

James Edward Gray II

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