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konnorrogers.com
You read that right! You know,the same site they just "refreshed" in June

github.com/rubycentral/...

and the repo is *checks notes* 3 years old!

Even if they couldn't figure out how to add content to their Ghost site, if only they had a GitHub repo for documents...

github.com/rubycentral/...
GitHub - rubycentral/board: Proceedings, Documents, and Processes for the Ruby Together Board of Directors
Proceedings, Documents, and Processes for the Ruby Together Board of Directors - rubycentral/board
github.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
konnorrogers.com
rubycentral.org/news/ruby-ce...

I'm confused by the first answer from @rubycentral.org

Do the bylaws exist or not?

And if the bylaws exist, it feels like they could at least be uploaded to this GitHub repo for "documents"

github.com/rubycentral/...

and just point to the link from the blog post
Question for Ruby Central: Question 1: If transparency is a core tenet for community trust, why doesn't Ruby Central release its bylaws publicly? Python Foundation, Linux Foundation, Apache Foundation and Rust Foundation all have public bylaws. A: While it is not required by law for 501(c)(3)s to make their bylaws public, it is a pretty standard practice that many organizations show these publicly for transparency and trust with the communities they represent. We completely agree, and we would like to make these documents public on our homepage. We are currently working on rebuilding our entire Ruby Central website from the ground up. We would like to include spaces that would not only explain clearly our mission and values, what programs we facilitate and organize, how people can get involved, but also provide these structural documents that would make it clear our organization functions as a whole. For historical context, the website was made very quickly some years ago, so that we would have an online presence. There was little to no effort put into actually building out the site into a proper institutional website where anyone can navigate and find the who, what, where, when, why, and hows. There isn’t a single person who had “expertise” in building, designing, or coding our current website which also has added additional challenges and blockers, but we are now working through. A lot of those structures should have been in place and unfortunately nothing was done until very recently. With yours and other community members’ input on what you’d like to see on our public facing site in regard to transparency, we are actively working on this. We ask the community for patience and grace as we try to get this done as soon as we can, knowing our limitations.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
galtzo.com
#RubyCentral hates this one fact #ruby www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comme...
From the ruby community on Reddit: RubyCentral hates this one fact!
Explore this post and more from the ruby community
www.reddit.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
adarsh.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
I strongly suggest you consider applying for the board. Especially if you have experience with board governance.

Service is helping. Hot Takes is not.

I’m happy to answer questions or help if that would encourage you. https://ruby.social/@rubycentral/115526473872026448
Ruby Central (@rubycentral@ruby.social)
If you care deeply about the Ruby programming language, open source sustainability, and community growth, here is your chance to help shape the future of the Ruby ecosystem. Accepting applications for the Board of Directors until November 21st: https://rubycentral.teamtailor.com/jobs/6723164-ruby-central-board-member
ruby.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
It seems like profitable conferences are increasingly unlikely for low budget orgs.

@rubycentral have you signed any event contracts past 2026? What are your conf plans after rubyconf 2026?
https://publicidentity.net/@jezdez/115491874626784058
Jannis Leidel (@jezdez@publicidentity.net)
Hey all, this @ThePSF@fosstodon.org blog post is special, it connects the dots, on where the PSF is financially, and how we’ll sustain it to serve its mission in the future. This transparency is key and an invitation to build together. You all know that Python became the connective tissue of modern computing because of everyone (maintainers, educators, library/tools authors, companies, user groups and conferences, you!) invested time into the Python community. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/connecting-the-dots.html (1/2)
publicidentity.net
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
skillstopractice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@getajobmike @rubycentral

I thought that in part it was running conferences to offset infrastructure operations costs, but Ufuk corrected me on Reddit to remind me that post COVID this has not been true, and that the conferences run at a loss or break even.

I submitted a question to Ruby […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
I'm trying to understand what @rubycentral does now for rubygems.org. Assumptions:

* software is provided by ruby-core
* hardware/bandwidth is donated
* dev/oncall time is no longer compensated

Coordinate on-call, own the domain and provide misc devops services like pagerduty and slack.

What […]
Original post on ruby.social
ruby.social
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
@rubycentral Are your bylaws public and available somewhere?
October 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
@rubycentral Would you please remove my "kicker" logo from the bottom of this page?

https://rubycentral.org/support/
Support Us
Would you like to help support Ruby Central? Here are the ways you can help: Consider Becoming a Major Donor Click here to learn more about annual sponsorship packages and get contacted by our Executive Director. Support Our Conferences Buy a ticket to RubyConf 2024 or become a sponsor! One-off
rubycentral.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
justinaiken.bsky.social
Shame on each and every member of #rubycentral that didn't say "I have a problem with that, fuck giving that racist a platform."

Not much I can do as an individual, but I at the very least won't be using any education budget to go to RC-related conferences in the future.
ufuk.dev Ufuk Kayserilioglu @ufuk.dev · Sep 24
Noel, this is quite disingenuous. In the kick-off meeting for the PC, I told the group that we were having conversations with DHH to be at RailsConf, and it wasn't finalized but if anyone had any problems with that, they could choose to not join the PC. Anyone else on that call can vouch for this.
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
afomera.dev
“i don’t know where you got the audacity but you should put it back” is gonna be my new go to phrase for a while, sorry not sorry.

it’s really messed up how RubyCentral refuses to accept the humans they’ve caused real harm to on this.
martinemde.com Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 23d
What comes through loud and clear from Shan is the lack of respect for open source authors. She actually says it’s none of my business why I was removed from rubygems. I don’t know where you got the audacity but you should put it back. youtu.be/nKpo68g9dEk?...
Technology for Humans: Shan Cureton
YouTube video by reinteractive
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
ahmednadar.bsky.social
It started with RubyCentral & RubyGems. Now rails foundation & Rails. I think we are asking the wrong question or standing by the wrong side.
If we all stop contribute to OSS, what does that code & our work demand from us? Live!
@greg.molnar.io ask, who owns open source?
youtube.com/shorts/a2MYm...
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
dombarnes.com
What about those that were members? Also let’s not forget the $1m Shopify granted to RubyCentral. Why doesn’t it return to the rubygems org and maintainers of that org includes a few more ruby-core people and works to align CoC’e and governance. Are the previous maintainers just out now?
October 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
@adarsh @rubycentral ehhhhh
October 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
mikemcquaid.com
Things were never going back to where they were 6 months ago. There were people unwilling to reconcile on both sides. It was either "RubyCentral maintains with current maintainers", "it's handed to gem.coop which doesn't include all current maintainers" or "it's handed to a third party".
October 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
Maybe @matz and @rubycentral would find it useful to read Apache's summary on how they govern their open source projects.

https://apache.org/foundation/governance/
A Primer on ASF Governance | Apache Software Foundations
apache.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
mikemcquaid.com
www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...

As someone who spent a bunch of time talking before and after this all went down with current and past RubyGems maintainers, RubyCentral employees, gem.coop maintainers and Ruby Core folks: this seems like the best outcome that was actually attainable.
The Transition of RubyGems Repository Ownership
www.ruby-lang.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
Periodic reminder: @rubycentral is smearing Andre in public so they can justify their hostile takeover of the rubygems/rubygems repo after the fact.

An actual community-focused organization would have followed the RFC process which was already in progress.
October 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
jneen.ca
in which rubycentral displays an astoundingly irresponsible response to a security disclosure.

pic unrelated
a picture of a fork on a white background
October 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
filipamv.bsky.social
did we read the same post from RubyCentral? it's like you're doubling down on the hit job aspect.
October 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
nomadmonad.bsky.social
RubyCentralの件、穏便には落ち着けないんだろうなあ
justin.searls.co/links/2025-1...
People jumped to conclusions about this RubyGems thing
[TL;DR, Ruby Central has alleged that after he was notified that the board had voted to remove his production access to RubyGems.org, Andre Arko accessed the…
justin.searls.co
October 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
mikemcquaid.com
I was involved in attempts to improve RubyGems governance, mediate between RubyCentral/RubyGems folks and helping the gem-coop folks setup their new governance process. Given recent events, I'm stepping back now that the initial governance work is done: mikemcquaid.com/bootstrappin...
Bootstrapping gem.coop Governance
gem.coop was announced on Monday. As part of that announcement it was mentioned that I was helping gem.coop set up a governance process, continuing the work I’d first started helping with on RubyGems.
mikemcquaid.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
douglascamata.bsky.social
Aaaand he also wanted to lock RubyCentral out of their own AWS account? Totally trustworthy person to host your gems, guys.
October 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
angellozan.live
Bit of an apologist take, but good to listen too.

tldr;

1) Nonprofits are corporations in disguise. (My career at 3+ nonprofits as evidence)

2) RubyCentral sucks at comms.

3) Security is important.

4) When it comes down to it, money > community and people every time. See #1.
October 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM