A Year of Ruby, Together (Fog City Ruby)

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
   Fog City Ruby
   

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2. André Arko
   @indirect
   

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4. The Ruby Way
   therubyway.io
   

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7. what’s a
   Ruby Together?
   

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8. Ruby has
   grown up
   
   

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9. Ruby has
   grown up
   
   

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10. in 2003–2014
    we served
    2 billion gems
    

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11. in 2015
    we served
    4 billion gems
    

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12. in 2016
    we’ll serve
    5 billion gems
    

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13. volunteers are
    great
    
    

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14. volunteers
    aren’t enough
    anymore
    

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15. remember the
    rubygems.org
    hack?
    

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17. “volunteers”
    

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18. “volunteers”
    don’t stick
    around :(
    

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19. the non-solution
    of open source jobs
    

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20. the non-solution
    of open source jobs
    

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21. executive whims
    don’t stick
    around :(
    

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22. executive whims
    don’t stick
    around :(
    

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23. so how did this
    happen, exactly?
    

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24. funding open source
    is really, really, hard
    

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25. money is
    super helpful
    

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26. got
    milk?
    

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27. what have we
    gotten done
    

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28. bundler
    releases
    

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29. bundler
    1.9
    

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30. bundler
    1.10
    

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31. bundler
    1.11
    

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32. bundler
    1.12
    

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33. bundler
    1.13
    

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34. summers
    of code
    

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35. now we do
    RubyGems
    

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36. oh, and
    the servers
    

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37. rubygems.org
    accomplishments
    

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38. incident
    response
    

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39. gemstash
    is real neat
    

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40. bundler 2.0
    is coming
    

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41. we will merge
    bundler &
    rubygems
    

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42. somehow,
    it’s working
    

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43. this year we served
    4,347 terabytes
    of gems
    
    

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44. but it’s not
    all good :(
    

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45. companies
    focus on now
    

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46. we’re doing good
    for everyone
    

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47. rubytogether.org
    

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48. pins!
    for members
    

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49. stickers!
    for everyone
    

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50. visit our store!
    shop.rubytogether.org
    bundler tape cute shirts! lapel pins
    

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