Have you looked at Ruby Central? http://rubycentral.org/
(There's also a similar org in Japan; I cannot recall the name).
I believe RubyCentral helped coordinate the fund raising for Greg Brown to work full-time (albeit for only a few months) on Prawn.
This is the crap I'm talking about. It has to be easy, it has to be well executed, it has to inspire confidence. Fail, fail, and fail. I wouldn't entrust my $$$ to this group at this point.
Have you bee to any Ruby conferences? All well executed, modulo the usual small crap that can't be avoided. David, Rich, Chad, et al do a very good, and often thankless, job.
" I wouldn't entrust my $$$ to this group at this point."
Based on the Web page instead of events handled by the organization?
BTW, you did E-mail them to let them know about the problem, right?
It's fixed now.
I just realized how you can best help the Ruby community. FOrget your $$$. Offer to look after the RubyCentral Web site so that it remains stable.
Seriously; that's pretty much the only way things happen in OSS communities. Bitching is less effective.