44
Pledges

Help Ruby Mendicant University "Grow up"

By sandal ( 190 Medal_gold_1 )
Donor's List
Comments

NOTE, description below is badly outdated. Between Jordan and I, RMU is getting roughly 55-65 hours of dedicated work a week now, and our students are actively helping out as well. For a more up to date view on what we’re up to, see http://university.rubymendicant.com

We are still in need of money, we are working on getting our NPO set up, but for right now would just use donations to offset Gregory’s considerable losses since the start of the program, in particular since he shifted his focus to RMU full time as of 2010.12.1.

Work began on Ruby Mendicant University in June 2010. We have now ran two three-week long sessions reaching 25 students around the world, 15 of which gained alumni status making them permanent members of the RMU community. We will reach roughly 30 more by the end of 2010, and 45 new students in the first quarter of 2011.

As of 2010-09-29, Gregory Brown has invested over 300 hours into the program, while Jordan Byron has put in 25-50 hours helping build out our infrastructure. Between the two of us, we plan to put in 40 hours a week of work on RMU for the rest of the year.

We hope to start a proper non-profit organization and come up with a sustainable funding model that isn’t fully dependent on direct donations, but these things take time and money. Please help bridge us into 2011 by donating to RMU now.

Also, by helping RMU, you’ll be helping a lot of great open source projects come to life. Each student does an individual project during their course, and most choose to release these projects on github under a free software license. In addition to that, all of our course materials and administrative software will be released under open content licenses as time goes on.

Categories
Education, Programming Languages and Technology
Additional Information
Launched Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Modified Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Flag this campaign as:
Spam
Scam
or Inappropriate

Comments (0)

Post a comment:

You must be signed in to make a comment.

We've raised $3,830.00, and we still need your support!

Make A Pledge

Powered by PayPal

Add A Badge & Share With Friends

13580

Donors (44)

1.  ROBERT NADLER
Sep 29
2.  Ashish Dixit
Sep 29
3.  Stuart Ellis
Sep 29
4.  Pete Higgins
Sep 29
5.  Lucas Florio
Sep 29
6.  Frank Wöckener
Oct 01
7.  Anonymous
Oct 04
8.  Sean Miller
Oct 05
9.  Morgan Prior
Oct 05
10.  @hasmanytweets
Oct 07
11.  @jaimeiniesta
Oct 07
12.  @afcapel
Oct 07
13.  @Carols10cents
Oct 15
14.  Anonymous
Oct 19
15.  Raphael Randschau
Oct 22
16.  Anonymous
Oct 25
17.  Pete Higgins
Oct 25
18.  Patrick McKenzie
Oct 25
19.  Shane Emmons
Oct 26
20.  Andrew Cox
Oct 26
21.  @timtyrrell
Oct 26
22.  Stuart Ellis
Oct 26
23.  @chipiga
Oct 30
24.  @chipiga
Oct 31
25.  James Rosen
Nov 08
26.  Graham Clark
Nov 20
27.  Piotr Szotkowski
Nov 20
28.  Chris Dinn
Nov 25
29.  Anonymous
Dec 07
30.  david rabbich
Dec 09
31.  @jcangas
Dec 10
32.  @botykai_zsolt
Dec 15
33.  david rabbich
Jan 18
34.  david rabbich
Jan 21
35.  Anonymous
Jan 24
36.  @afcapel
Jan 28
37.  @etrepat
Feb 01
38.  Carl Leiby
Feb 02
39.  @eitoball
Feb 02
40.  Pete Higgins
Feb 02
41.  @redsquirrel
Feb 18
42.  tundal45
Mar 02
43.  @pellegrino
Mar 21
44.  @jaimeiniesta
Mar 28
* Denotes a manually entered pledge.
Rss Feed - Subscribe to donations list