Rebol3 is dead, long live to Rebol3Bazaar

I've been quiet for a long while, and this blog is not easy for me to write.
I'm sitting here with a glass of 2013 Ferrarelle mineral water of the glass bottle... hoping to be inspired on how to write this...
No, bad introduction...
You know that Rebol is a fantastic programming language, but its development was discontinued and bad supported. A lot of people when encounter Rebol falls in love for its simplicity, a blend of theory, experimentation, and invention, the language embodies elegant and wonderful concepts and properties. It was and is the most productive language I've ever used. I hope your experience has been similar.

Unfortunately a lot of bad events are leading Rebol to a no through road:

• no direction of the new Rebol3
• no a central site open for discussion
• no updates on Rebol 3 source (well, just one every month)
• too many sites about Rebol and with no updates from years

These and other reasons forced me to create http://rebol.informe.com/portal.html a public forum, with a public wiki and a blog, where everybody can contribute. The result is just 17 users, this means that Rebol is dying; the cathedral way of Rebol 3  development is not working.
So I'm forced by my love for Rebol to create a new GitHub repository: Rebol 3 Bazaar, it's a Rebol 3 source, with graphic working (VID, but just on windows at the moment); I promise you:

• pull requests and issues discussed and merged in 24 hours (or max a week)
• open to add people to its organization
• always update!
• https://github.com/angerangel/r3bazaar

If you like to contribute write me, use GitHub or Rebol portal; you don't need to be a programmer, think about a new logo, contribute the wiki.
I draw the following logo, what do you think?

If you know REBOLers who might be interested in this discussion, please let them know about this blog posting. I look forward to hearing from you,
-Max

AltMe on Linux 64bit

I post here a solution for a simple problem: Altme on Linux 64bit seems not working.

Foreword

Firsto of all, do you know what is AltMe?
AltMe is a free chat software like IRC, but made only in pure Rebol; instead of rooms, there are worlds.
Rebol4 world is very populated of rebol users.
In order to use AltMe, just download it from: http://www.altme.com/

then you must have a free account on it.
In order to have an account there are three ways:

• Ask on the REBOL Gateway world:
  
• Send an email to rebol-request@REBOL.com
• Ask via REBOL.org

Rebol gateway

This is the recommended method.
REBOL Gateway is an AltME world set up as a gateway to other REBOL resources.

• Start the AltME client (that you just downloaded)
• go to:
  • World: REBOL-gate
  • Username: guest
  • Password: guest
• Post a message in the REBOL4 Join Requests group. We'll need your full name, preferred username, and a working email address (to send you a password)
• Sit back and wait for a confirming email. To prevent spam, join requests are checked by real humans, so please be patient; it may take us a day or two to respond
• If you are new to AltME: while you are waiting, please play with making posts in the playpen group. That'll give you a feel for how AltME works
• Also, ask any questions in the Questions? group

Ask via email

If you are not a member, you can join by sending an email to:
rebol-request@REBOL.com
with the word subscribe on the subject line.

Ask via Rebol.org

 Register on http://www.rebol.org and then click on http://www.rebol.org/aga-join.r?action=request

Linux 64 bit problem

If you use Linux 64bit, you AltMe could give you this error:
./altme: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw7.so.7: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
solution is very easy: create a file altme.sh in the same directory of altme with this content:
#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/home/max/altme

It's very important that the last line is the full path to the original altme binary.
Then make altme.sh executable and launch it:

chmod u+x ./altme.sh
./altme.sh

finished:

New forum address

Here the new Rebol forum address:
http://synapse-ehr.com/community/forums/rebol.5/