We are pleased to announce that five codefest grants will be awarded this year, in the first Ruby Central Codefest Grant Program.
Below (in no particular order) are the titles of the five projects, together with the name of the applicant and some excerpts from the applicant's description of the project. Thanks and congratulations to the grant recipients. We're looking forward to seeing the results!
David Black Chad Fowler Rich Kilmer for Ruby Central, Inc.
Codefest Grant recipients:
1. Ruby Displaytag (Dave Tiu)
A port to Ruby/Rails of a popular Java/Struts library for displaying and interacting with HTML table presentations.
2. Ruby/AGG and Ruby/View (Andrey Melnik)
This will be a wrapper library for AGG (http://antigrain.com) allowing users to draw high-quality graphics. Later this will be a base for Ruby-centric GUI toolkit similar to Rebol/view which is also based on AGG
3. Gambit (James Edward Gray II)
Gambit is pure Ruby framework for building multiplayer Web games offering two key services: Game management and design tools. Gambit can manage player's accounts, game hosting and joining, player histories, in-game communication systems and out-of-game notifications for in-game activities.
4. Ruby Bindings to Lucene Search Engine (Brian McCallister)
Rubygems is a very powerful system for ruby package management but is still rather rough around the edges. Getting rubygems well-polished will make it more widely accepted and increase the chance of getting it included in the standard ruby library. This would be a huge benefit to both users and developers.
> We are pleased to announce that five codefest grants will be awarded > this year, in the first Ruby Central Codefest Grant Program.
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Heartiest Congratulations, Dave, Andrey, James, Brian and Ryan !
> 1. Ruby Displaytag (Dave Tiu)
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> 2. Ruby/AGG and Ruby/View (Andrey Melnik)
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> 3. Gambit (James Edward Gray II)
> Gambit is pure Ruby framework for building multiplayer Web games > offering two key services: Game management and design tools. Gambit > can manage player's accounts, game hosting and joining, player > histories, in-game communication systems and out-of-game notifications > for in-game activities.
I am very interested in learning about this project ... James, has there been any activity since its hosting on Rubyforge?
> 4. Ruby Bindings to Lucene Search Engine (Brian McCallister)
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> 5. RubyGems cleanup and enhancement (Ryan Davis)
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Again, these are cool projects ... wish you all recepients the very best!
> We are pleased to announce that five codefest grants will be awarded > this year, in the first Ruby Central Codefest Grant Program.
> Below (in no particular order) are the titles of the five projects, > together with the name of the applicant and some excerpts from the > applicant's description of the project. Thanks and congratulations to > the grant recipients. We're looking forward to seeing the results!
thanks for organizing, and congrats to the chosen ones.
> 3. Gambit (James Edward Gray II)
> Gambit is pure Ruby framework for building multiplayer Web games > offering two key services: Game management and design tools. Gambit > can manage player's accounts, game hosting and joining, player > histories, in-game communication systems and out-of-game notifications > for in-game activities.
I think a different name would be better, to avoid name collision with gambit scheme[1]. Actually, I read about this project here and on rubyforge and both times I thought "cool, a module to compile ruby using the gambit scheme implementation!"
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, David A. Black wrote: > Below (in no particular order) are the titles of the five projects, > together with the name of the applicant and some excerpts from the > applicant's description of the project. Thanks and congratulations to > the grant recipients. We're looking forward to seeing the results!
And a belated thanks (my fault) to the judges, for their time and effort in evaluating the applications.
> We are pleased to announce that five codefest grants will be awarded > this year, in the first Ruby Central Codefest Grant Program.
> Below (in no particular order) are the titles of the five projects, > together with the name of the applicant and some excerpts from the > applicant's description of the project. Thanks and congratulations to > the grant recipients. We're looking forward to seeing the results!
This is a great list of enhancements for Ruby!
I hope that the success of this effort inspires people (who are in the position to do so) to make donations to support future code grants!
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> 2. Ruby/AGG and Ruby/View (Andrey Melnik)
> This will be a wrapper library for AGG (http://antigrain.com) allowing > users to draw high-quality graphics. Later this will be a base for > Ruby-centric GUI toolkit similar to Rebol/view which is also based on > AGG
I hope that this is built and released without the optional General Polygon Clipper (so that it can be used in both commercial and open source software).
>> 3. Gambit (James Edward Gray II) >> Gambit is pure Ruby framework for building multiplayer Web games >> offering two key services: Game management and design tools. Gambit >> can manage player's accounts, game hosting and joining, player >> histories, in-game communication systems and out-of-game notifications >> for in-game activities.
> I am very interested in learning about this project ... James, has > there > been any activity since its hosting on Rubyforge?
Yes, a little on and off the radar. My partner, Greg Brown, and I were informed we had a better shot at the grant if we didn't do too much work upfront (to create a need). ;)
Officially, we've committed a few files to CVS which your are welcome to pull down and look over. The main point of interest here is the project README, which outlines our vision. (This is pretty much our grant application.)
There are also a couple of unit tests I recently committed. Interestingly, these grew out of ideas I had while running/solving the Yahtzee Ruby Quiz. We're using the tests to play with interface. When we find what we like, we'll build it until they pass. This is our pre-codefest planning strategy, so expect to see this set grow in the near future.
Unofficially, we've been doing research and planning. One of our big goals with the project is to support commercial game sites as best we can. (Yes, we will support open source sites as well.) Our README contains links to successful commercial game sites we've looked into. We're looking at how they work and what they need, so we can ease development and management for similar operations.
As I said, we've also been planning. This mostly concerns our build strategy. We're going to start by throwing together some game tools, probably using them to build simple command-line games. From there, we'll mix in views for each component and develop a layout system that can be used to design each game related Web page. We put these in trivial servlets, so we can watch our progress. Then we will tackle wrapping that in a game hosting management infrastructure. Throughout our process, we want to test with actual games, or our slight variations of such. We have already selected a few favorites, one definitely non-trivial. We want to ensure the system's usefulness for real work.
Basically, we're taking the project seriously, hoping to produce a useful tool. It's not all fun and games. ;)
That's where we are at this point. We've just begun discussing dates for the actual codefest, but it will be sometime this summer.
We're very excited about the project and are glad to see that others are too. We want to thank Ruby Central for our selection and the whole grant process.
If I can answer anymore questions, please don't hesitate to email me (off-list is fine). Thanks for the interest!
> > We are pleased to announce that five codefest grants will be awarded > > this year, in the first Ruby Central Codefest Grant Program.
> > Below (in no particular order) are the titles of the five projects, > > together with the name of the applicant and some excerpts from the > > applicant's description of the project. Thanks and congratulations to > > the grant recipients. We're looking forward to seeing the results!
> This is a great list of enhancements for Ruby!
> I hope that the success of this effort inspires people (who are in the > position to do so) to make donations to support future code grants!
> [snip]
> > 2. Ruby/AGG and Ruby/View (Andrey Melnik)
> > This will be a wrapper library for AGG (http://antigrain.com) allowing > > users to draw high-quality graphics. Later this will be a base for > > Ruby-centric GUI toolkit similar to Rebol/view which is also based on > > AGG
> I hope that this is built and released without the optional General Polygon > Clipper (so that it can be used in both commercial and open source > software).
> Curt
as I don't plan to do any vector output, GPC will be disabled, so you can use Ruby/AGG in commercial purposes.
