Could it be put up on a website somewhere too, so we can submit the link to reddit, rubyflow etc?
martin On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Ernest Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Final Draft 3. Unless someone complains in the next hour, I'll start > sending it out to Ruby news sites. Thanks all! > > -- Ernie P. > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > Subject: July 11th and July 25th - Worldwide ShoesFest 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 ShoesFests: > > * 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 > > You can participate using any of the many web- and native- apps for IRC, > e.g.: > > http://mibbit.com/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%23shoes > > Shoes comes with its own built-in manual. Use `shoes -m` to bring it up. > (On OS X, you can do ⌘-?.) > > 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/ > > Spread the word! Everybody could use a nice set of Shoes. :-) > >
