Ask HN: How to donate $$$ to Ruby?
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"I must admit I'm out of my depth when it comes to the brass tacks of starting foundations, but it seems to me that Ruby is ripe for one"
Have you looked at Ruby Central? http://rubycentral.org/
(There's also a similar org in Japan; I cannot recall the name).
I believe RubyCentral helped coordinate the fund raising for Greg Brown to work full-time (albeit for only a few months) on Prawn.
Have you looked at Ruby Central? http://rubycentral.org/
(There's also a similar org in Japan; I cannot recall the name).
I believe RubyCentral helped coordinate the fund raising for Greg Brown to work full-time (albeit for only a few months) on Prawn.
And their support and sponsorship page is down.
This is the crap I'm talking about. It has to be easy, it has to be well executed, it has to inspire confidence. Fail, fail, and fail. I wouldn't entrust my $$$ to this group at this point.
This is the crap I'm talking about. It has to be easy, it has to be well executed, it has to inspire confidence. Fail, fail, and fail. I wouldn't entrust my $$$ to this group at this point.
" it has to inspire confidence. Fail, fail, and fail."
Have you bee to any Ruby conferences? All well executed, modulo the usual small crap that can't be avoided. David, Rich, Chad, et al do a very good, and often thankless, job.
" I wouldn't entrust my $$$ to this group at this point."
Based on the Web page instead of events handled by the organization?
BTW, you did E-mail them to let them know about the problem, right?
Have you bee to any Ruby conferences? All well executed, modulo the usual small crap that can't be avoided. David, Rich, Chad, et al do a very good, and often thankless, job.
" I wouldn't entrust my $$$ to this group at this point."
Based on the Web page instead of events handled by the organization?
BTW, you did E-mail them to let them know about the problem, right?
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"This is the crap I'm talking about. It has to be easy, it has to be well executed, it has to inspire confidence. Fail, fail, and fail. "
I just realized how you can best help the Ruby community. FOrget your $$$. Offer to look after the RubyCentral Web site so that it remains stable.
Seriously; that's pretty much the only way things happen in OSS communities. Bitching is less effective.
I just realized how you can best help the Ruby community. FOrget your $$$. Offer to look after the RubyCentral Web site so that it remains stable.
Seriously; that's pretty much the only way things happen in OSS communities. Bitching is less effective.
http://rubycentral.org/pledge
It's fixed now.
It's fixed now.
Like many Rubyists, I've spent untold dollars on books and screencasts (we must be a very lucrative bunch on a per-user basis), and when it comes to Ruby, I've got money burning a hole in my pocket.
Now, the question is, will we Rubyists also contribute $$$ toward Ruby development? I think a great many of us would. Personally, I can donate $15 per month, and would be happy to do so. I would think that many profitable startups who are invested in Rails/Merb/Sinatra would be very interested as well. With enough of us, we could probably throw a lot more bright minds at the tough implementation problems Ruby faces.
I must admit I'm out of my depth when it comes to the brass tacks of starting foundations, but it seems to me that Ruby is ripe for one (python.org, anyone?). I'm feeling a bit frustrated that with all my love for Ruby, I can't even contribute my cash toward Ruby advocacy and development. And who doesn't want free cash? Am I alone in my thinking? Is there a website where this is already being done? If not, doesn't that signal a fundamental problem?
Let's put the market to work and kill this already!