Well I put the announcement up on shoescode.com. A site that I hope gain some ground in the next little while. It is completely dedicated to shoes. Feedback welcome. --Tom
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Ernest Prabhakar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. :-) > > ---- > NOTES: > > you can embed the chat doodad in to other pages using this embed code: > > <div style="height:400px;" id="__pibb_thread"></div><script src=" >> https://pibb.com/widget/thread/1F31";></script> >> > > 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 > >> >>
