More about Ruby Central’s Open Source Program
The mission of Ruby Central’s Open Source Program is to maintain a secure, reliable ecosystem for the Ruby programming language. Our focus is on strengthening and sustaining Ruby’s core tools—including RubyGems.org, Bundler, and other essential infrastructure—to meet the needs of developers at every level, from individual creators to teams within large tech companies. By building and supporting key open source projects, we are empowering the Ruby community to work with confidence and ensuring that Ruby remains a top choice for software development.
Our vision for 2025 centers on three core pillars: Security, Stability, and Sustainability.
Security remains our highest priority, driving our continued efforts to strengthen supply chain protections and refine our cloud infrastructure controls.
Stability is essential for ensuring uninterrupted service, and we are dedicated to enhancing disaster recovery planning and operational documentation to prepare for any challenge.
Sustainability focuses on establishing stable funding for ongoing maintenance and essential projects, enabling the growth of team contributions, and ensuring that Ruby’s foundational infrastructure is supported for years to come.
More about community support
Ruby Central’s community support program is a growing initiative that helps us empower the organizers of events beyond RubyConf and RailsConf (these main conferences are financially self-sustaining and do not receive sponsorship funds from Ruby Central).
Our goal is to help Rubyists host more local meetups and regional conferences across the globe. These gatherings are vital for strengthening the Ruby ecosystem, and our program equips organizers with resources, guidance, and sometimes funding to run successful events in their communities.
Our support includes tools like an organizer checklist, “event-in-a-box” templates, sponsor guidance, monthly forums for event organizers to meet and exchange ideas, and more. Our goal is to make it easier for organizers to focus on what matters: building community.
One of our most impactful achievements so far has been acting as a support system for the organizers of Rocky Mountain Ruby, which has become profitable with our help and may soon contribute back to Ruby Central, thus enabling us to fund more grants.
We have also started working with Fastly to distribute small grants for local Ruby meetups.
Our goal is to expand this support system, building a practical and financial foundation for Ruby meetups and events worldwide.