Ruby Central

The organization was founded by a group of Ruby advocates including David Alan Black, Chad Fowler and Richard Kilmer.

Black and Fowler were involved in organizing the first annual International Ruby Conference.

The organization partnered with the Bay Area-based SVForum to produce the 2006 Silicon Valley Ruby Conference,[1] 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, in partnership with O'Reilly Media.

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.