Soon _why’s new(ish) UI toolkit Shoes is having a bug day where we’ll all be getting together on irc for a whole day to squish bugs and play with shoes and find problems. It’s starting at mid day GMT time on the 11th, and then again on the 25th, and going till mid day the next day. Come meet _why and all his lunatic friends on freenode in the #shoes channel.

Free oats will be made available to all who attend. We all really want to get shoes ready for a good solid release on the 31st of July. What we need most of all is people and objects resembling people to come along with idea’s and make them in shoes, and give feedback, find crashes, and all that jazz. If you know C, you might be able to help debug any issues that come up, but mostly we want rubyists, even total newbies, to come along and learn shoes with us. Download the latest build of shoes before you come. Oh and you’ll want to go grab the free book Nobody Knows Shoes, which you can get in pdf or printed on lulu. :)

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