http://www.martinicity.net/articles/2007/05/22/the-philanthropic-programmers en-us 40 Mike Blake <p>Something fantastic is happening in the <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Ruby and Rails</a> World.</p> <p><img src="/images/ruby_shades.jpg" alt=""/></p> <h3>Do unto others</h3> <p>Open source developers know from experience that what goes around comes around. Contributions to projects like Rails invariably come back to benefit everyone, including the contributor. The community is now thinking on a larger scale. Frameworks come and go, but <a href="http://pragdave.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/05/rails_is_love.html">love</a> is timeless .</p> <h3>The Summer of Love</h3> <p><a href="http://whytheluckystiff.net/">Whytheluckystiff</a> is focusing his power on <a href="http://hacketyhack.net/">Hackety Hack</a> an amazing application that teaches children programming. And it&#8217;s likely more zeitgeist than coincidence that a professor from MIT, where the generous open source license originated, has started the noble project called <a href="http://laptop.org">One Laptop per Child</a> . Developers everywhere like <a href="http://slash7.com/articles/2006/4/17/teaching-rails-for-charity-in-d-c">Amy Hoy</a> are giving back in order to share the passion. </p> <p><img src="/images/rails_logo_heart.png" alt=""/></p> <p>Chad Fowler has challenged the entire community to harness our newfound passion to do <a href="http://www.chadfowler.com/2007/5/19/changing-the-world">great things</a>. And the community has only just begun to respond. During RailsConf over <a href="http://www.clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/05/22#RailsConf07">$33,000</a> was raised for <a href="http://pragmaticstudio.com/donate/">charity</a>. </p> <h3><a href="http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowbizNews.asp?Code=WV31893G&amp;headline=paris_hilton_shortlisted_for_nun_role">Witness the Transformation</a></h3> <p>Software evolves rapidly. Humanity seems to evolve at a slower pace, but if you watch carefully, with ruby colored glasses , you can see it happening. </p> Tue, 22 May 2007 21:16:00 +0000 urn:uuid:5cbbdb9a-35d6-4c26-aed0-fdf039d89942 Mike Blake http://www.martinicity.net/articles/2007/05/22/the-philanthropic-programmers Create Pray ruby rails love