Re: 2015 H1 Vision

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On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 00:14:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
On 2/1/15 1:46 PM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce 
wrote:
On 2/1/15, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2015H1

- Create the D Language Foundation

What exactly is this idea about, can you elaborate a bit?

Glad you asked. We currently have a few expenses associated 
with D operation. Walter and I prefer to be discreet about 
such, but some of them are fairly obvious and non-negligible - 
such as DConf.

Such expenses have been covered by the kickstarter campaign 
(for DConf 2013) and now are going out of Walter's and my 
pocket. We've increased expenditures lately, to good effect, 
and would like to continue to do so but of course without 
becoming homeless in the process :o). It's become clear to us 
that the best way to scale things up is a formal framework, and 
a foundation is a commonly-used mechanism for such.

A foundation would provide a fair and transparent way for us to 
accept contributions, small and large, from interested parties, 
and apply them to further understanding and adoption of D.

By the way I have forwarded the information that something is 
brewing to Sociomantic leadership - will report if they would 
want to participate in it one way or another :)