contribute to an open source project

I ended up starting two of my own in the ruby community. Monkey Test which is a test runner for ruby/rails tests which provides prettier output and flickrb which will eventually be a yet another flickr library for ruby. Sadly Monkey Test is experiencing some issues right now and i need to carve out some time to sit down and iron all of them out. Flickrb is also in a state of disrepair and has yet to see the light of day. Someday soon.

I had a great chance to work with Bil Kleb this summer and the other students and I debated trying to turn our project into an open source project. I think it was about as close as I’ve come thus far to sitting down and churning out a project as part of a collaborative atmosphere like that. Plus as a bonus we all learned ruby as we hacked away.