Samuel Giddins
Samuel is the Security Engineer in Residence at Ruby Central, leading security efforts across RubyGems and RubyGems.org by day (and sometimes by night, CVEs never sleep). He's been working on Ruby tooling for the past decade, and has shipped hundreds of bugs across RubyGems & Bundler.
Session
Over the past half decade, software supply chains have become an increasing focus for governments and large companies. This has created an interesting dynamic, as Ruby infrastructure (our package manager, package repository, etc.) used to be developed by volunteers. This is the story of how Ruby Central has adapted to the changing times, and has managed to fund work (including a full-time employee!) on our infrastructure. Along with the story of Ruby Central's evolution, we'll cover the current landscape surrounding funding and governance of infrastructural open source projects, and hopefully come away feeling hopeful about the future of critical open source.