# Decentralizing \_why's projects (aka the ruby community is awesome)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/decentralizing-whys-projects-aka-the-ruby-community-is-awesome/174189>\
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**Created:** [August 22, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/decentralizing-whys-projects-aka-the-ruby-community-is-awesome/174189 "2009-08-22T03:25:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![philipjkim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f14d63/32.png) [@philipjkim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/philipjkim)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/decentralizing-whys-projects-aka-the-ruby-community-is-awesome/174189/1 "2009-08-22T03:25:41Z")

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A quick pointer to [http://whymirror.github.com/](http://whymirror.github.com/) – we’re trying to  
recover \_why’s old projects and find custodians for them.

I’ve posted a progress report on the comp.lang.ruby list (http://  
[groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse\_thread/thread/](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/)  
1190325eb665b63f#) so I won’t go into depth, but if you have  
documentation, content or SVN pulls from \_why’s public projects please  
contact that project’s maintainer (and _not_ whymirror – see  
[http://whymirror.github.com](http://whymirror.github.com)).

The most urgent needs are

- Code for why’s “Try Ruby” widget.
- Maintainers for shoes and hpricot. (Or if a maintainer already  
exists, their name and URL)

cheers,  
flip (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid, [mrflip (Philip (flip) Kromer) · GitHub](http://github.com/mrflip))