RUBY CENTRAL

The founders of Ruby Central, Inc. (David Alan Black and Chad Fowler) were involved in organizing the first annual International Ruby Conference (RubyConf), held in Tampa in 2001. Shortly after that conference, they realized that there was enough interest in Ruby that the logistics for future events would only become more elaborate, including the search for corporate sponsors, the choice of new locations and venues, and the inclusion of a larger attendee base. As such, Black and Fowler made the... decision to establish a nonprofit organization to handle conference arrangements. Thus, Ruby Central was born. Ruby Central’s first conference was RubyConf 2002 in Seattle, and since then, annual RubyConfs have been held every fall. In 2006, Ruby Central added a dimension to the world of Ruby conferences when they produced the first official Ruby on Rails Conference, better known as RailsConf. Since that first RailsConf in Chicago, they have been holding RailsConf every spring. From 2007-2011, Ruby Central partnered with O’Reilly to co-produce RailsConf. More