The Jim Weirich Scholarship Fund: honoring Jim's legacy through education

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by _ouxp • 12 years ago

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jim.neo.com

_ouxp3• 12 years ago

Posting this here because I thought the many people who posted here, on github, and on twitter might want to know that there is a scholarship fund being started in Jim's name to help pay for CS education. The fund is being administered by the Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation. If you're a ruby developer, you know who Jim is, and you use his work whenever you type `rake` or use Flexmock.

More information on Jim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Weirich

Dorian-Marie• 12 years ago

I would rather give for a funding of free online classes that would benefit to millions.

_ouxp3• 12 years ago

Do it! It can be complimentary to this effort. Jim's educational work lives on and touches many people for free. See for example: http://rubykoans.com/ & http://gitimmersion.com/

You can contribute to these here: https://github.com/neo/ruby_koans

https://github.com/neo/git_immersion

[edited to be more constructive]

psycr• 12 years ago

I didn't know that Jim had died. I think I may have been on vacation when the news would have broken.

His work on Ruby Koans helped me tremendously when learning Ruby. And of course there's rake. This sort of thing feels like an appropriate match to his own contributions to the community. I couldn't give much, but hopefully my little bit can help.

A few notes for the developers of the page: the form fields are wonky on Firefox (upstream on Aurora at least) and I'd suggest a country field for non-Americans.

_ouxp3• 12 years ago

Thank you. I also learned ruby with the ruby koans and was lucky enough to meet him through our local ruby community and eventually end up working with him. His other free and open-source educational work was git immersion: http://gitimmersion.com/ which you might like.

Also, here's one of my favorite practices to watch Jim do & to practice as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ronr_CG8x0Y

Thanks for the bug report, I'm opening an issue. Can you email me a screenshot? email address in profile.

The Jim Weirich Scholarship Fund: honoring Jim's legacy through education

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