On Jun 27, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Martin DeMello wrote:
For some reasons I didn't receive the draft, could someone forward
it to me
I didn't either - could someone reforward it to the list?
Okay, trying again. -- Ernie P.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Shoes 24-hour Worldwide Code-a-thons on July 11th and July 25th
why the lucky stiff and friends invite all Ruby hackers to join them
for two 24-hour Code-a-thons to test, debug, and document "Shoes" -- a
clever little cross-platform GUI toolkit -- in preparation for our
next major release on July 31st, 2008.
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/
The Code-a-thons will take place on:
* Friday, July 11th noon GMT to Saturday, July 12th noon GMT
* Friday, July 25th noon GMT to Saturday, July 12th noon GMT
<http://is.gd/H58> 8 AM New York / 5 AM San Francisco / 9 PM Tokyo /
3 PM Amsterdam
These Code-a-thons are in preparation for the next major release of
Shoes. The primary focus is on writing small Ruby desktop
applications that stress test and/or document the Shoes framework,
though we also welcome help from C programmers familiar with Cairo <http://cairographics.org/
> and Pango <http://www.pango.org/> on Windows/Mac/Linux.
The primary interaction will take place on the Pibb Shoes channel,
which you can log into using IRC or any OpenID:
* https://pibb.com/go/shoes (the Shoes IRC channel is #shoes on irc://
irc.freenode.net )
The latest builds of Shoes are available at:
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/wiki/RecentBuilds
Shoes is part of a larger effort to teach programming called Hackety
Hack. You can read about it at http://hackety.org/.
Spread the word! Everybody could use a nice set of Shoes. :-)
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NOTES:
you can embed the chat doodad in to other pages using this embed code:
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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.
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
