I'm willing to support the organization of the shoe repair days with a site. I've had the domain name shoescode.com for a while now it is backed by radiant a rails cms there isn't anthing yet but it could be used as a central repo for info or for announcments. --Tom
On 6/26/08, Ernest Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi _why, > > On Jun 26, 2008, at 9:41 AM, _why wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:59:25AM -0700, Ernest Prabhakar wrote: >>> I'm not much of a bug fixer, but I'd be happy to help with the >>> organizational logistics. I'm good at bugging people. :-) >>> >>> What time of day works best for you? I'd suggest a Friday >>> morning/afternoon; probably starting *after* the US July 4th >>> weekend... >> >> Brilliant! I am so glad to have some help. I am in dire need of >> assistants. Especially assistants with PhDs. > > Okay, so the first thing is to draft up an announcement that covers > all the appropriate bases, and the second is to ensure all the > relevant sites pick it up. The announcement needs to cover: > > * date and time > * forum(s) and/or collaboration tools > * opportunites for cross-time-zone participation > * which build(s) to be using > * goals and priorities > * prep work (e.g., bugs to file in advance) > > It would of course help to have our own cartoon logo. :-) > > anything else? > > The announcement should go to: > * railsenvy, rubyinside, rubyflow > * ruby central, ruby matters > * _why's various sites/lists, as appropriate > * o'reilly ruby > * comp.lang-ruby > * developers.slashdot.org > * all of our blogs / twitter feeds > > anywhere else? > > Once we agree on the "specs", I'll generate a draft we can iterate on. > Once that's final, I (with your help) will push it out to the various > sites at least a week before the event, so we can build some buzz. > > Sound like a plan? > > -- Ernie P. > > >> >> >> As regarding a shoe repair day, I could use help with two aspects. >> The .1st. is simply to get word out that it's going to happen. Many >> Shoes users aren't on this list and only casually use builds here >> and there. Many still use Curious. So, announcements should >> emphasize how to get a recent build and roughly what to expect with >> Shoes right now. >> >> The .2nd. is to help discover any of the obvious problems people are >> finding so that the bug day isn't held up by fundamental things. >> So, if someone replies to an announcement with a complaint about >> PowerPC support -- yes, _why is going to have PowerPC support all >> ready for the bug day, you'll hear from us soon. >> >> Other obvious problems right now are: DMG output on Windows is >> having a problem, the OSX commandline script isn't done and none of >> the embedded installer options are ready. >> >> I think announcements about shoes repair day should touch on the >> July 31st release. Although I'm going to be debugging for years, >> I'm excited about having a Shoes that works very, very well by >> that date and I can't do that in seclusion. >> >> _why > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com
