Ruby Central
Ruby Central, Inc., is a
Ruby Central is the parent organization of the annual International Ruby and Ruby on Rails Conferences, and serves as a visible presence and point of contact for corporate sponsors interested in supporting these conferences and other Ruby activities.
The organization was founded by a group of Ruby advocates including David Alan Black, Chad Fowler and
Ruby Central’s first project was RubyConf 2002, and annual RubyConfs have been held since then. Ruby Central produced the first official Ruby on Rails Conference, RailsConf 2006, in
Ruby Central has also become a hub for support of Ruby activities. The organization's first project other than RubyConf was the Ruby Codefest Grant Program, through which they offered support for local and regional groups of programmers working on Ruby library projects. In 2006 Ruby Central inaugurated a Regional Conference Grant Program, aimed at promoting smaller regional Ruby and Rails conferences.
See also
- RubyKaigi, the largest Ruby conference in Japan
References
- ^ SVForum, 2006 Silicon Valley Ruby Conference.
- ^ "RubyConf 2007 is sold out". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2007-12-05.