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
2. André Arko @indirect
4. The Ruby Way therubyway.io
7. what’s a Ruby Together?
8. Ruby has grown up
9. Ruby has grown up
10. in 2003–2014 we served 2 billion gems
11. in 2015 we served 4 billion gems
12. in 2016 we’ll serve 5 billion gems
13. volunteers are great
14. volunteers aren’t enough anymore
15. remember the rubygems.org hack?
17. “volunteers”
18. “volunteers” don’t stick around :(
19. the non-solution of open source jobs
20. the non-solution of open source jobs
21. executive whims don’t stick around :(
22. executive whims don’t stick around :(
23. so how did this happen, exactly?
24. funding open source is really, really, hard
25. money is super helpful
26. got milk?
27. what have we gotten done
28. bundler releases
29. bundler 1.9
30. bundler 1.10
31. bundler 1.11
32. bundler 1.12
33. bundler 1.13
34. summers of code
35. now we do RubyGems
36. oh, and the servers
37. rubygems.org accomplishments
38. incident response
39. gemstash is real neat
40. bundler 2.0 is coming
41. we will merge bundler & rubygems
42. somehow, it’s working
43. this year we served 4,347 terabytes of gems
44. but it’s not all good :(
45. companies focus on now
46. we’re doing good for everyone
47. rubytogether.org
48. pins! for members
49. stickers! for everyone
50. visit our store! shop.rubytogether.org bundler tape cute shirts! lapel pins