-----Original Message----- From: "Phil Tomson"<ptkwt / user2.teleport.com> To: "ruby-talk ML"<ruby-talk / netlab.co.jp> Date: Thu Feb 01 16:40:02 PST 2001 Subject: [ruby-talk:10240] Re: ANN: Slide show available(Publicity for Ruby) >In article <m2n1c69p0x.fsf / zip.local.thomases.com>, >Dave Thomas <Dave / PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote: >> >>Last night I took my life in my hands and presented Ruby to the local >>Perl Monger's chapter. It went very well: they were very receptive to >>the ideas behind Ruby, and we all had a great time. >> >>In case anyone else feels the need to spread the word, I put the >>presentation I used (in StarOffice format) at >> >> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/presentation.html >> > >It might be a good idea to also forward announcements like this to places >like Linux Weekly News, for example, in order to spread the word about >Ruby. In order for Ruby to gain more well-deserved acceptance we'll need >to do a bit of PR work. A few weeks back I sent a message to lwn.net >about the Dr. Dobb's Ruby article and asked them if they could include >Ruby in their Development Languages Links - and they did! Now we should >be sending in some of these announcements (the announcement about IOWA >would be good to send as well) their email is: lwn / lwn.net > >Another idea: Maybe somebody could write up a weekly summary of the >highlights of the discussions on this Ruby List, for example and send that >in to LWN as well. > >Any other ideas? > >Phil I would second that! Let's face it, PR can really make or break a language, I'd hate to see Ruby left in the dust because we weren't vocal enough. I have one more suggestion in the PR range, I'm working on this a bit myself, but I'm probably not nearly the right candidate. Someone should _really_ do a book review of "Programming Ruby" to post on slashdot. _If_ it's well written and you say pretty please, I'm sure it would probably be posted to the front page (not all reviews are). There's a perlmonk called chromatic that does a ton of reviews, usually on Perl, most recently on "Extreme Programming Installed". He (almost?) always gets on the front page, so a look at what he's doing might be helpful. I know the fact that ruby was mentioned (2000 lines down and not on the front page) a week or so ago prompted a few folks to poke their heads in, I'm sure a front page story would do much more. As far as the weekly summary goes, I know that Alex of RubyMine (http://www.ale.cx/mine) has 1 mailing list summary from November (http://www.ale.cx/mine/mls/mls-2000-11-08-2000-11-15.html) that he did. It was very well done and maybe he'll continue to do that? I've been sticking the more major events on http://ruby.weblogs.com, so if Alex can't continue I could possibly expand and pick it up... Mike Wilson Unix Administrator http://ruby.weblogs.com ___________________________________________________ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com