People who have visited any of the larger C++ conferences surely know Rainer Grimm, know his talks, workshops and books.

Rainer Grimm
Rainer Grimm

Unfortunately, he has been diagnosed with ALS, a serious progressive nerve condition.

Since ALS research doesn’t get much attention or funding, Rainer started a fund raising campaign for funding ALS research with ALS-Ambulanz of the Charité and I Am ALS organization.