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.<p>More information on Jim: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Weirich" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Weirich</a>
I didn't know that Jim had died. I think I may have been on vacation when the news would have broken.<p>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.<p>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.