> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel VanderWerf [mailto:vjoel / PATH.Berkeley.EDU] 
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:54 PM
> To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement....
> 
> 
> Berger, Daniel wrote:
> 
> > In some ways this would be analogous to the Perl 
> Foundation.  However, 
> > I think that giving all the money to one or two folks, as the Perl 
> > Foundation did, would be a mistake for the Ruby community.  Ruby is 
> > behind Perl in the package/module race, and I think would 
> benefit from 
> > a large number of smaller projects than hardcore 
> development of one or 
> > two large projects (with the possible exception of 
> Cardinal).  At this 
> > point in time, at least.
> 
> Seems to me the small projects are going to get developed as 
> people need 
> them. What may need more funding are the quantum leaps, like 
> cardinal, 
> and especially rite.

You could be right.  I was just sorta thinking out loud there.  In any case,
I don't think supporting large projects necessarily excludes supporting
small ones.

Regards,

Dan