A Year of Ruby, Together (EuRuKo 2016)

Ruby Together is a simple concept: Ruby developers and companies all pay a small amount of money. That money ensures that Bundler, RubyGems, and other critical software continues to work, by paying developers to work on it. While the concept is simple, creating Ruby Together was very complicated in practice. In this talk I’ll explain why I was motivated to start Ruby Together, how it became possible, and what we have done for Ruby in our first year.

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1. A Year of Ruby, Together EuRuKo 2016
2. André Arko @indirect
4. The Ruby Way therubyway.io
7. wait a second. Ruby Together?
8. Ruby has grown up
9. Ruby has grown up
10. volunteers are great
11. volunteers aren’t enough anymore
12. remember the rubygems.org hack?
14. “volunteers”
15. “volunteers” don’t stick around :(
16. the non-solution of open source jobs
17. the non-solution of open source jobs
18. executive whims don’t stick around :(
19. executive whims don’t stick around :(
20. so how did this happen, exactly?
21. funding open source is really, really, hard
22. money is super helpful
23. got milk?
24. what have we gotten done
25. bundler releases
26. bundler 1.9
27. bundler 1.10
28. bundler 1.11
29. bundler 1.12
30. bundler 1.13
31. summers of code
32. now we do RubyGems
33. oh, and the servers
34. rubygems.org accomplishments
35. incident response
36. gemstash is real neat
37. bundler 2.0 is coming
38. we will merge bundler & rubygems
39. somehow, it’s working
40. but it’s not all good :(
41. companies focus on now
42. we’re doing good for everyone