Mastodawn

I believe Ufuk acted from a place of immensely poor judgement by platforming DHH, and also from a place of inherent conflict of interest as a Shopify employee in 2025, which ultimately lead to the financial crunch Ruby Central ended up in.

(See his response here)

https://rubycentral.org/news/ruby-central-update-friday-10-31-25/

Please consider joining me in publicly asking him to resign from Ruby Central's board immediately.

Ruby Central Update Friday 10/31/25

Rubyists, thank you for your continued engagement and patience as we move forward together. The pace of questions has steadied, and the tone across the community has shifted towards progress. Ruby Central remains focused on stability and stewardship, not only in operations but in how we communicate and collaborate. Our

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Gregory Brown Nov 1

Here's the exact text I submitted.

https://github.com/community-research-on-ruby-governance/questions-for-ruby-central/commit/4c2c3f322c1d0c97d825dd5cb4832fdbf8927531

If you send in a request of your own along these lines, please do send a pull request to put it on public record.

I do give credit to Ufuk for answering my followup last week and quoting it verbatim.

I just have fundamentally different standards on professional ethics.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Nov 1

@skillstopractice I kept believing outside forces were putting immense pressure on the ED & the board because *no way* could they keep making decisions so dumb throughout this year all of their own volition.

Guess I was wrong? 😭😭

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Gregory Brown Nov 1

@jaredwhite Don't need outside forces when the threat is coming from inside the building.

I've been an exec coach / management consultant for 21 years. Nobody writes a letter on official letterhead from "The Business" when they want something sketchy done.

They put the right person in the right place to just... nudge things in the right direction and that's how these things are done.

If that's not what happened here, then there's a shocking level of naivete disqualifying of a steward.