gem.coop

announcing the 2026 Gem Fellowship Last month I announced my latest venture to support the Ruby open source community: the Gem Fellowship. I want this grant program to support and fund existing Ruby-related open source project maintainers and their ongoing efforts: fixing bugs and adding features for those libraries we know and love. The Class of 2026 We announced $100,000 in available funds, took applications in the month of December and received 40 applications for a total of $439,000 in requested funds. I’ve been working with gem.coop to select the highest value projects for the community; we settled on these eight projects.