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

Post by Tabular-Iceberg » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:50 PM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #5

CharlesW wrote: post #4

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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.

Post by Tabular-Iceberg » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:55 PM UTC

elevenoh wrote: post #10

xutopia wrote: post #2

Shopify is such a good citizen.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:57 PM UTC

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #11

jacques_chester wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

How do investors feel about this? Being a dev myself and knowing how the sausage is made and how FOSS is the casing that holds it all together, this investment makes perfect sense. But I can also see how investment types would complain, it doesn't exactly look like an investment in the books.

Post by vlunkr » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 6:00 PM UTC

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #11

jacques_chester wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

How do investors feel about this? Being a dev myself and knowing how the sausage is made and how FOSS is the casing that holds it all together, this investment makes perfect sense. But I can also see how investment types would complain, it doesn't exactly look like an investment in the books.

Post by rco8786 » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 6:08 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #9

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