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Gregory Brown Summarizes His Ruby Mendicant Project

Remember Gregory Brown, the Ruby developer who got $11,000 in donations to work full-time on an open source Ruby library? He’s written a summary of how it all went.

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I’m very impressed by Gregory’s commitment to “pay back” the community with Prawn. It would be much easier to take the money, hack on a few open source projects, and call it done. But he had the self discipline to follow through. Great job!

A really great summary by a really impressive contributor. Prawn is already a fantastic library and has the potential to be extremely useful to many projects.

Gregory Brown is a great coder and has a lot of really interesting things to say about software development. I think the mendicant work has really been an eye opener about how the community (or any interested party) can contribute several small donations and really get back huge value. His farmers market theory really worked out well.

Better than Kottke’s micropatron project at least ;-)

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