Over the years, RubyConferences.org has been a trusted source for discovering upcoming Ruby conferences worldwide. Meanwhile, RubyVideo.dev has grown into an extensive archive of Ruby conference talks and events, aiming to preserve and share the knowledge shared on stage by the community.
Today, we’re excited to announce the next chapter: RubyConferences.org and RubyVideo.dev are merging into a new, unified platform — RubyEvents.org.
RubyEvents.org is built to be the central platform for all things Ruby events — not just conferences, but also meetups, workshops, hackathons, CFPs, and more. Whether you’re a speaker, attendee, organizer, or sponsor, RubyEvents.org is designed to serve your needs.
Why Merge?
RubyConferences.org started with listing Ruby conferences and Call For Papers, and has been the go-to resource over the past decade. In 2024 we also added the support to keep track of Ruby meetups around the world.
Adrien Poly started RubyVideo.dev in 2023 with the ambition to aggregate all Ruby-related videos in one place with searching capabilities to facilitate discovery, all while showcasing some of the new Rails technology.
Over the last two years these sites became closer and closer and created some duplicate effort to keep both sides up-to-date. By bringing them together, we can:
- Offer a single place to discover and explore Ruby events
- Archive slides, photos, and recordings alongside each event’s details
- Create public speaker profiles with talk histories
- Help meetup organizers find speakers and promote their events
- Provide conference organizers with tools to run CFPs, attract sponsors, and build visibility
- Give sponsors a way to showcase their community involvement across multiple events
A New Home for the Ruby Community’s Event History
Many historical Ruby conference websites have disappeared over time and aren’t accessible anymore, making it challenging to access important information about these events. Details such as speaker lineups, dates, venues, and other valuable context are often lost to the digital void, erasing pieces of our community’s history.
With RubyEvents.org, past events aren’t lost to time — quite the opposite. The platform preserves and expands upon the comprehensive event archive from RubyConferences.org while integrating the rich talk data from RubyVideo.dev. This creates not just an accurate historical record, but a vibrant archive that maintains the unique identity of each event through their original assets, including event logos, banners, branding, and more!
Each event gets a dedicated page, and over time we’ll be adding recordings, speaker information, and more. If you’ve spoken at or organized a Ruby event in the past, your contributions now have a way of being archived and preserved in the RubyEvents.org archive. If they aren’t on RubyEvents.org yet, feel free to open an issue or even better, contribute it to RubyEvents.org.
What’s Next?
This is just the beginning.
We’re actively collaborating with conference and meetup organizers to evolve RubyEvents.org into a comprehensive platform that supports the entire lifecycle of Ruby events. From managing Call for Papers and publishing announcements, to displaying event schedules, archiving talk recordings, and sharing post-event updates — our goal is to create a seamless experience for everyone involved in the Ruby community’s events ecosystem.
If you’re running a meetup or event, we’d love to help you list it. If you’ve given a talk, we want to index it. If you’re a company that’s supporting Ruby events, we want to help you get the recognition you deserve for supporting our awesome Ruby community.
We’re also excited to share that we have been building a Hotwire Native RubyEvents.org iOS app that’s completely open-source. It serves not just as a companion app, but as a reference application for building modern, real-world Rails apps and leveraging Hotwire Native to create powerful mobile experiences.
Our goal is to make this app a learning resource for anyone interested in seeing how the latest tools in the Rails ecosystem can come together in a production-quality application. We also want to create opportunities for early-career developers to contribute to a real-world app that people actually use. If you’re interested in contributing, check out the GitHub repo and/or visit the Contributions Page on RubyEvents.org.
Please reach out if you don’t know where to start or need any guidance, I would be more than happy to help you get your first contribution to RubyEvents.org!
Thank you to everyone who’s supported RubyConferences.org and RubyVideo.dev over the years. We’re excited to take this next step together, and we hope RubyEvents.org becomes a valuable home for the whole Ruby community.
Special thanks to Jon Allured and Cameron Daigle for creating, maintaining, and stewarding RubyConferences.org over the years and to Adrien Poly for starting RubyVideo.dev in the first place. This project wouldn’t exist without their foundational work.
If you have feedback, ideas, or want to get involved, feel free to reach out.
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