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digitalmars.D.announce - News on the D Blog: SAOC 2020 and More

reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
Symmetry Autumn of Code 2020 is on! My latest news post on the D 
Blog talks about that, some D Language Foundation finance 
updates, and whispers on the wind.
Jun 23 2020
next sibling parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Symmetry Autumn of Code 2020 is on! My latest news post on the 
 D Blog talks about that, some D Language Foundation finance 
 updates, and whispers on the wind.


And you can read all about it here:

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/23/saoc-2020-and-other-news/
Jun 23 2020
next sibling parent aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Symmetry Autumn of Code 2020 is on! My latest news post on the 
 D Blog talks about that, some D Language Foundation finance 
 updates, and whispers on the wind.


 And you can read all about it here:

 https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/23/saoc-2020-and-other-news/


I'm glad you guys are doing something about financial 
transparency. Might even push more donations to be made.
Jun 23 2020
prev sibling parent reply user1234 <user1234 12.de> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Symmetry Autumn of Code 2020 is on! My latest news post on the 
 D Blog talks about that, some D Language Foundation finance 
 updates, and whispers on the wind.


 And you can read all about it here:

 https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/23/saoc-2020-and-other-news/


"Thanks are also in order to those who have supported the 
foundation through smile.amazon.com. Your purchases have brought 
over $288"

That is interesting, that means that dlang users spent ~57,600.0 
bucks on Amazon recently.
And that's probably only a minority as people don't necessarily 
remembers that smile.amazon thing.
Jun 23 2020
next sibling parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 13:45:56 UTC, user1234 wrote:


 That is interesting, that means that dlang users spent 
 ~57,600.0 bucks on Amazon recently.
 And that's probably only a minority as people don't necessarily 
 remembers that smile.amazon thing.


That's not recent. It's the total they've paid out since the 
foundation has been part of the program. I'm not sure when Andrei 
signed up for it.
Jun 23 2020
parent Jan =?UTF-8?B?SMO2bmln?= <hrominium gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 14:04:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 13:45:56 UTC, user1234 wrote:


 That is interesting, that means that dlang users spent 
 ~57,600.0 bucks on Amazon recently.
 And that's probably only a minority as people don't 
 necessarily remembers that smile.amazon thing.


 That's not recent. It's the total they've paid out since the 
 foundation has been part of the program. I'm not sure when 
 Andrei signed up for it.


I have not found the foundation in on the German site 
smile.amazon.de.
I guess because the D Language Foundation is not registered in 
Germany?
Also just for me it's not worth the hassle, I generate only ~5 
Euros in a year (tops).
But maybe there is an EU-wide option? I'm clueless about the 
whole subject.
Jun 24 2020
prev sibling parent reply Meta <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 13:45:56 UTC, user1234 wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Symmetry Autumn of Code 2020 is on! My latest news post on 
 the D Blog talks about that, some D Language Foundation 
 finance updates, and whispers on the wind.


 And you can read all about it here:

 https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/23/saoc-2020-and-other-news/


 "Thanks are also in order to those who have supported the 
 foundation through smile.amazon.com. Your purchases have 
 brought over $288"

 That is interesting, that means that dlang users spent 
 ~57,600.0 bucks on Amazon recently.
 And that's probably only a minority as people don't necessarily 
 remembers that smile.amazon thing.


I guarantee I spent at least $1000 on Amazon in 2019, and I've 
ordered a lot of stuff off there that I wouldn't normally, given 
the quarantine. I don't usually buy from amazon.com as I'm not in 
the US, but I did set mine to donate to the DLF when I do.
Jun 23 2020
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 6/23/20 10:31 AM, Meta wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 13:45:56 UTC, user1234 wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Symmetry Autumn of Code 2020 is on! My latest news post on the D 
 Blog talks about that, some D Language Foundation finance updates, 
 and whispers on the wind.


 And you can read all about it here:

 https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/23/saoc-2020-and-other-news/


 "Thanks are also in order to those who have supported the foundation 
 through smile.amazon.com. Your purchases have brought over $288"

 That is interesting, that means that dlang users spent ~57,600.0 bucks 
 on Amazon recently.
 And that's probably only a minority as people don't necessarily 
 remembers that smile.amazon thing.


 
 I guarantee I spent at least $1000 on Amazon in 2019, and I've ordered a 
 lot of stuff off there that I wouldn't normally, given the quarantine. I 
 don't usually buy from amazon.com as I'm not in the US, but I did set 
 mine to donate to the DLF when I do.


By the way I found this helpful:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmhnmjbhgkhpbgelalfpplebgfjmbf?hl=en
Jun 24 2020
parent Paul Backus <snarwin gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 16:15:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 On 6/23/20 10:31 AM, Meta wrote:

 By the way I found this helpful:

 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmhnmjbhgkhpbgelalfpplebgfjmbf?hl=en


And for firefox users:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-amazon-smile/
Jun 24 2020
prev sibling parent reply Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 D Language Foundation finance updates


Please note that the bit here saying to search a third party 
website is insufficient, IRS regulations state that the 
foundation must provide the address on the world wide web and 
that there must be no fee to download the document from them or 
from the third party hosting the website.

A direct link to the third party web page offering the PDF I 
believe would be in compliance, but indirect search pages are not 
and any link with a paywall is most definitely not.

You also need to make sure the most up-to-date information is 
available and exact images of the actual documents submitted to 
the IRS, so while adding other information and reformatting in 
HTML would definitely be appreciated, you also need to provide 
the original documents to be in compliance with the law. The 
grantspace thing only offers 2016 and 2017.

Really, the best thing to do is probably offering the documents 
directly on the official website. Then if someone does formally 
request it you can just point back to dlang.org/foundation or 
whatever.
Jun 23 2020
parent Martin Tschierschke <mt smartdolphin.de> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 14:13:44 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 D Language Foundation finance updates




[...]

 Really, the best thing to do is probably offering the documents 
 directly on the official website. Then if someone does formally 
 request it you can just point back to dlang.org/foundation or 
 whatever.


Yes please, more transparency => more donations!
Jun 30 2020