Publish Organizations private beta post

Author: mghaught

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+title: Organizations Private Beta
+layout: post
+author: Marty Haught
+author_email: marty@rubycentral.org
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+We're excited to announce that the Organizations feature for RubyGems.org has entered private beta\! 
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+### A long time coming
+
+We started the Organizations work back in 2024 as announced in our [June 2024 RubyGems update](https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/07/23/june-rubygems-updates.html), where we shared our plans to bring organization accounts, memberships, and more precise gem permission controls to the platform. Since then, the team has been steadily building out the feature from refactoring our permissions models to introducing [ownership roles](https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/11/20/october-rubygems-updates.html), building the [organization onboarding experience](https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/12/20/november-rubygems-updates.html), and updating our [guides](https://guides.rubygems.org/organizations/getting-started/) to cover how Organizations work.  After more than a year of development, Organizations is ready for real-world feedback.
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+### Join the Private Beta
+
+While ready for testing, it's not ready for general release.  We're still refining some workflows and welcome feedback on any gaps you encounter.  After talking to our friends at PyPI, we know that a public rollout of a feature like this will not be trivial.  Instead, we're adding a limited number of private beta organizations to help us refine the feature.  We've already onboarded four organizations, with another four accepted into the program.
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+We envision Organizations primarily serving publishers with extended teams who manage gem publishing workflows. We're especially interested in organizations that approach publishing in unusual or non-standard ways as these edge cases will help us build a better feature for everyone.  If you're interested in participating, please complete our [interest form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDimnhTz7u0o6kpFJEmvu6Dn-IJz5kXaW1vu5sV5qxVzoAkQ/viewform?usp=header) to get started.
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+### What's Next
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+We'll be iterating on the feature based on what we learn from beta participants. Our goal is to open Organizations to the broader community once we're confident the experience is solid. As we don’t have an anticipated timeline, stay tuned for updates.