In 2008, dorset-house-publishing published gift-of-time-2008, a festschrift honoring gerald-weinberg on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The volume was edited by fiona-charles and assembled 17 essays from colleagues, students, and collaborators reflecting on Weinberg's influence across software development, testing, consulting, and organizational change.
Contributors included james-bach, robert-glass, esther-derby, johanna-rothman, don-gray, and many others who had been shaped by Weinberg's teaching, writing, and presence at events like aye-conference and the psl-workshop-founded-1974. The essays ranged across the full span of Weinberg's work—from psychology-of-computer-programming-1971 and egoless-programming to the satir-change-model and the consulting frameworks of secrets-of-consulting-1985.
Weinberg himself described the festschrift as the recognition he was most proud of—more meaningful than the warnier-prize-1993 or the stevens-award-2000 because it represented the freely given testimony of people who had actually been changed by his work. The event of its publication marked the maturation of the community Weinberg had built over five decades, and it functions as a primary source for understanding the breadth and depth of his influence.