Operation Code is a project founded by David Molina, a former U.S. Army Captain who tried using his New GI Bill to cover code school tuition, room and board in 2012, and again in 2014 and couldn't. Currently, veterans are forced to pay out-of-pocket or privately finance their way despite earning this education benefit.
Releasing the source code for this project is meant to empower veterans and all developers everywhere to contribute their energy and time to this project. What could be better than America's current greatest generation trained in modern software development?
Ruby on Rails to get started.
###Contributors
Our Operation Code contributors on design and implementation:
- Alex Beeken
- Alex Kaufman
- Chris Kibble
- David Molina
- Duane Moody
- Fernando Paredes
- James Davis
- Jason Dinsmore
- Nell Shamrell-Harrington
- Shawna Scott
- Sylwia Bialczak
Bug fixes and features are welcomed.
Everyone is encouraged to contribute to the project by forking and submitting a pull request. Steps:
- Fork this repository
- Create an issue or find an open issue to work on
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create new Pull Request
- Identify the issue that corresponds to your Pull Request: https://github.com/blog/1506-closing-issues-via-pull-requests
Send Operation Code a Tweet if you need help.
Ruby on Rails is released under the MIT License.
Join the conversation on Twitter and military/veterans can sign the petition to tell Congress to expand the New GI Bill and sign up for our software mentor protégé program.
Thanks to Chris Hough for leading the first charge.
Special thanks to all the amazing Ruby developers who've provided enormous encouragement and advice, and supporters who have signed up as an Operation Code Ambassador!
Thank you. We couldn't have come this far without your feedback, comments, thoughts, advice and generous resource support.