# Speaking of pledges for Ruby projects **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 7, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speaking-of-pledges-for-ruby-projects/169692 "2009-06-07T05:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speaking-of-pledges-for-ruby-projects/169692/1 "2009-06-07T05:42:05Z")
Hi everyone, I am looking for pledges so that I can continue to work on some fantastic open source Ruby projects that are, in my opinion, of great benefit to the Ruby programming community at large. [http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640](http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640) The project I will spend the majority of my time on is called “Win32Utils”. Win32Utils consists of a collection of libraries specifically aimed at the Microsoft Windows operating system. [http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/) Libraries consist of interfaces for the clipboard, the event log, file system monitoring, services and so on. It is one of the most downloaded projects on RubyForge. Another project I will be focusing on is called “SysUtils”. The SysUtils project is a collection of libraries that target system adminstration issues. This includes interfaces for gathering process information, administering users, gathering CPU information and so on. [http://rubyforge.org/projects/sysutils/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/sysutils/) There is also the “Shards” project, a miscellaneous collection of libraries that range from generating HTML tables, to finding files on your file system, to replacements for older code that exists in the Ruby standard library. [http://rubyforge.org/projects/shards/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/shards/) Another project that is incredibly important in my opinion is the “Pure” project. This project consists of pure Ruby versions of popular C libraries, such as zlib or win32ole. [http://rubyforge.org/projects/pure](http://rubyforge.org/projects/pure) On top of all that I would like to spend time contributing to other important projects, such as rubygems. [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems) If you feel that these are worthwhile efforts, please contribute, and spread the word! Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speaking-of-pledges-for-ruby-projects/169692/2 "2009-06-07T06:20:43Z")
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Daniel B.[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for pledges so that I can continue to work on some fantastic > open source Ruby projects that are, in my opinion, of great benefit to the > Ruby programming community at large. > > [http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640](http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640) Daniel, though I appreciate more clicks headed my way, I think this link is wrong. 🙂 (Please send an updated link so I can contribute to yours!) -greg ---
**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 6:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speaking-of-pledges-for-ruby-projects/169692/3 "2009-06-07T06:58:44Z")
> open source Ruby projects that are, in my opinion, of great benefit to > the > Ruby programming community at large. > > [http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640](http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640) Whoops, should be [http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4706](http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4706) The link above is Gregory B.'s Mendicant project (also worthwhile!). Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speaking-of-pledges-for-ruby-projects/169692/4 "2009-06-07T06:59:19Z")
> > I am looking for pledges so that I can continue to work on some > > fantastic > > open source Ruby projects that are, in my opinion, of great benefit > > to the > > Ruby programming community at large. > > > > [http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640](http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640) > > Daniel, though I appreciate more clicks headed my way, I think this > link is wrong. 🙂 > (Please send an updated link so I can contribute to yours!) Oy, thanks! I was looking at yours when I was writing mine. Too many tabs open! Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speaking-of-pledges-for-ruby-projects/169692/5 "2009-06-07T23:10:52Z")
On Jun 7, 1:57 am, Daniel B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > open source Ruby projects that are, in my opinion, of great benefit to > > the > > Ruby programming community at large. > > > [http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640](http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4640) > > Whoops, should behttp://pledgie.com/campaigns/4706 > > The link above is Gregory B.'s Mendicant project (also worthwhile!). I must add, on a personal note, that both pledges (Gregory and Daniel) are really worthy. Daniel and Park H. work on win32utils is amazing! without them, lots of Windows functionality for Ruby wouldn’t be possible, even if those are external projects and not integrated on Ruby itself. Gregory has created a great and needed tool like Prawn which, believe it or not, worked and passes specs on Windows! (yeah, pretty weird). Keep the good work guys, and count on me on this.