Ruby Central should have been more involved in the development of rubygems (software) in the past and establish a community and contribution guideline, to secure the project, secure funding, maybe separating concerns (infrastructure, conferences, etc.)

However, taking away funding as retaliation for a conference talk is offensive, too. In the end facts (money) made the decision. I don't think Shopify has bad intentions.

Clearly, it's about the racists tweets and blog posts one prominent member of Rails has made. And the community needs to address this in a clear way. Not with boycotting the wrong parties, especially an infrastructure provider of our community. Thank you Sidekiq for supporting RubyGems in the past, but pulling the plug was not the best move for the community.