In all of this talk about the need for a foundation it has been said how we could have these people doing this job instead of the developers. We could have others doing other jobs, etc. etc. etc.
Well as the statements point out this needs people. It needs people that are involved and interested in FPC/Lazarus. That is where the problem starts. I don't think the people pushing the foundation have a clear grasp of just how small a community we really are. There are not alot of people interested in FPC/Lazarus. Without those people being interested there is no one to take over these foundation jobs or positions. Just as a comparison I have looked up some details on other foundations mentioned in these emails. Apache Foundation: Currently there are 161 Active Developers in charge of and working on approved Apache projects. OpenOffice: Currently they have 40 Active Developers in charge of and working on approved OO projects. They also have a similar numbers working on incubator and native-lang projects. Totals over 100 Lazarus: The Web Site has 4,337 registered users. Wow sounds like alot. Sounds like a nice community. But wait ..... The Lazarus Developers mailing list has a grand total of 12 developers. Of those 12 I think 4 and not even interested and some others have done stuff in the past but aren't able to assist at this time. So out of that list we have about 5-6 developers working on Lazarus. The Lazarus mailing list has a grand total of 470 people interested enough to keep up on what is happening with the project. What it boils down to is where are these Foundation members and Foundation administrators, etc. etc. going to come from? So who would do it? The core developers would be the only ones to do it. So what would be the benefit to them to do it? There wouldn't be any. This is where our thought process is coming from on this matter. -- ==== Programming my first best destiny! ==== Michael A. Hess Miracle Concepts, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.miraclec.com Phone: 570-388-2211 Fax: 570-388-6101 _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
