[Rubyforchange-talk] excitement

[Evan David Light]

I imagine its also because we inherently have a narrower focus as the  
Ruby community than the larger OSS community.

Evan

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On Sep 21, 2007, at 3:44 AM, "Giles Bowkett" <gilesb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all - just been thinking. I tried to get a fundraising thing to
> happen at OSCON, to match the fundraising thing from RailsConf, and it
> really didn't get as far as I hoped it would. I didn't capture the
> imagination and excitement of the participants. In fact most people
> didn't even know it was happening. Chad's fundraising at RailsConf was
> much more successful, and it happened A) because everybody knew about
> it, and B) because people got excited about it. I think the keys to
> making something like this succeed are excitement and participation.
> I'm just wondering about that. It's kind of the (yikes) marketing side
> of the whole equation.
>
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