Hi all,
Here's an updated draft. I deliberately kept it bullet-point style,
as that is easier for news sites to digest; if you email it to your
friends, you may want to use something more like Jenna's prose.
_why, do I have all the facts straight? If so, I'll send this out
late Sunday/ early Monday, so we make the weekly news cycle.
And do we have a cartoon logo for the Code-A-Thon?
> Shoes is small and inconsequential summer time fun.
Small and fun, but hardly inconsequential. :-)
-- Ernie P.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Subject: July 11th and July 25th - Shoes Worldwide Code-a-thons with
Why The Lucky Stiff
why the lucky stiff and friends invite all interested Ruby hackers --
and wannabe hackers -- to join them for two 24-hour Code-a-thons:
* Friday, July 11th noon GMT to Saturday, July 12th noon GMT
* Friday, July 25th noon GMT to Saturday, July 26th noon GMT
<http://is.gd/H58> 8 AM New York / 5 AM San Francisco / 9 PM Tokyo /
3 PM Amsterdam
The goal is to write and share fun little applications using Shoes, a
clever little cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Ruby:
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/
This will allow us to test, document, and file bugs on how the various
Shoes features work on the different supported platforms (Linux,
Windows, Mac), in preparation for our next major release on July 31st,
2008.
No Ruby -- or programming -- experience is required; we'd love to find
out how easy it is for novices to learn Shoes! Of course, if you
happen to know the Ruby C API, expert help is always appreciated.
The primary interaction will take place on the Shoes IRC channel:
* #shoes on irc://irc.freenode.net
* archive available at https://pibb.com/go/shoes
Additional Resources:
* The latest builds for Mac/Windows/Linux:
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/wiki/RecentBuilds
* The Shoebox, a friendly place to share Shoes (and Ruby-Processing)
apps in peace and harmony: http://the-shoebox.org/
* Hackety Hack, the programming tutor that motivated Shoes:
http://hackety.org/.
* Nobody Knows Shoes, the introductory guide: http://hackety.org/press/
* The Shoes reference manual:
http://github.com/why/shoes/tree/master%2Fstatic%2Fmanual.txt?raw=true
* Ditz issue tracking: http://github.com/why/shoes/tree/master/bugs
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:
<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
