Ruby Central, Inc., is a
non-profit organization
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based in the
United States
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, dedicated to support and advocacy for the
Ruby programming language
Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language which supports multiple programming paradigms. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. In Ruby, everything is an object, including pr ...
.
Ruby Central is the parent organization of the annual International Ruby and
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails (simplified as Rails) is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web p ...
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
Richard Kilmer
Richard Kilmer (born Hemet, California, 1969) is a technology entrepreneur, software programmer and conference host and speaker in the open-source software community. He is an open-source contributor and developer of commercial software applica ...
. Black and Fowler were involved in organizing the first annual International Ruby Conference. Shortly after that conference, the organizers realized that a permanent organization was required to handle conference arrangements, and Ruby Central was created to address this.
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
Chicago
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in June 2006. The organization partnered with the Bay Area-base
SVForumto produce the 2006 Silicon Valley Ruby Conference,
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2006 Silicon Valley Ruby Conference. and with the
UK training organization Skills Matter to produce the first official European Rails Conference in September 2006. In November 2007, Ruby Central presented ''RailsConf 2007'' in
Charlotte, North Carolina
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, in partnership with
O'Reilly Media
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. The event was completely sold out by mid-October.
''RailsConf 2008'', also presented in partnership with O'Reilly, was held May 29-June 1, 2008 in
Portland, Oregon
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.
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
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RubyKaigi
RubyKaigi is an annual conference held in Japan for Ruby programmers that was held for the first time in 2006.
Description
During RubyKaigi, there are presentations, discussions, and events about the Ruby programming language.
RubyKaigi was orig ...
, the largest Ruby conference in Japan
References
External links
Ruby CentralRubyConfRailsConfRailsConf Europe
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Non-profit organizations based in the United States