Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by jacques_chester » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC

Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler
rubycentral.org

Re: Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by xutopia » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:22 PM UTC

Shopify is such a good citizen.

Re: Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by jacques_chester » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:27 PM UTC

I had a small part in this and I'd be happy to answer questions about it.

Re: Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by CharlesW » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:32 PM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #3

I had a small part in this and I'd be happy to answer questions about it.

How did the conversation about doing this start? Who made the case and sold it internally?

Re: Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by jacques_chester » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

CharlesW wrote: post #4

jacques_chester wrote: post #3

I had a small part in this and I'd be happy to answer questions about it.

How did the conversation about doing this start? Who made the case and sold it internally?

> How did the conversation about doing this start? Who made the case and sold it internally?

I made the initial pitch that we should support Ruby Central, but it took off very quickly once senior leadership saw the pitch. Once we got the go-ahead it was mostly worked out by Mike Dalessio (aka flavorjones) and Rafael França for Shopify and Evan Phoenix for Ruby Central.

Re: Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by jacques_chester » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

xutopia wrote: post #2

Shopify is such a good citizen.

We work hard to be. We posted an accompanying blog post about how we see our place in OSS: https://shopify.engineering/shopify-open-source-philosophy

Re: Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by dominotw » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:43 PM UTC

xutopia wrote: post #2

Shopify is such a good citizen.

helps that ceo understands what these things are and why they are useful.

Re: Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by johnasmith » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:45 PM UTC

Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke was a core Rails developer. He's tightly connected to the Ruby & Rails communities.

Re: Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by brianwawok » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

To put in perspective, Shopify has a market cap of 41B. This is 0.00002 of that.

The average net worth of an American is 122k[0]. So this is like the average American donating $2.44 to a cause.

[0] https://www.fool.com/research/average-net-worth-americans

Re: Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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Post by elevenoh » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:49 PM UTC

xutopia wrote: post #2

Shopify is such a good citizen.

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