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digitalmars.D.announce - The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is now 
incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The foundation's Board 
of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali Çehreli, and myself.

Our initial administrative meeting will take place on Monday. Agenda 
includes EIN (Employee Identification Number) application, funding, and 
immediate plans for the foundation.

Going forward we're applying for a non-profit status, which is a longer 
process (3-6 months).

We're very excited about the creation of the D Language Foundation and 
we hold high hopes that it will have a strong positive effect on the D 
language and community.


Andrei
Oct 16 2015
next sibling parent Mithun Hunsur <me philpax.me> writes:
On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:04:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is 
 now incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The 
 foundation's Board of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali Çehreli, 
 and myself.

 Our initial administrative meeting will take place on Monday. 
 Agenda includes EIN (Employee Identification Number) 
 application, funding, and immediate plans for the foundation.

 Going forward we're applying for a non-profit status, which is 
 a longer process (3-6 months).

 We're very excited about the creation of the D Language 
 Foundation and we hold high hopes that it will have a strong 
 positive effect on the D language and community.


 Andrei


Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing where this goes :)
Oct 16 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:
On 16/10/15 11:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is now
 incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The foundation's Board
 of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali Çehreli, and myself.

 Our initial administrative meeting will take place on Monday. Agenda
 includes EIN (Employee Identification Number) application, funding, and
 immediate plans for the foundation.

 Going forward we're applying for a non-profit status, which is a longer
 process (3-6 months).

 We're very excited about the creation of the D Language Foundation and
 we hold high hopes that it will have a strong positive effect on the D
 language and community.


 Andrei


Awesome!
Congrats.
Oct 16 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Daniel Kozak <kozzi dlang.cz> writes:
Andrei Alexandrescu p=C3=AD=C5=A1e v P=C3=A1 16. 10. 2015 v 13:04 +0300:

 We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is now=20
 incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The foundation's
 Board=20
 of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali =C3=87ehreli, and myself.
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 Our initial administrative meeting will take place on Monday. Agenda=20
 includes EIN (Employee Identification Number) application, funding,
 and=20
 immediate plans for the foundation.
=20
 Going forward we're applying for a non-profit status, which is a
 longer=20
 process (3-6 months).
=20
 We're very excited about the creation of the D Language Foundation
 and=20
 we hold high hopes that it will have a strong positive effect on the
 D=20
 language and community.
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 Andrei
 Foundation


First foundation, where I am going to donate some money :).
Oct 16 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:04:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Andrei


I'll keep my fingers crossed! ;)
Oct 16 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent ZombineDev <valid_email he.re> writes:
On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:04:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is 
 now incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The 
 foundation's Board of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali Çehreli, 
 and myself.

 Our initial administrative meeting will take place on Monday. 
 Agenda includes EIN (Employee Identification Number) 
 application, funding, and immediate plans for the foundation.

 Going forward we're applying for a non-profit status, which is 
 a longer process (3-6 months).

 We're very excited about the creation of the D Language 
 Foundation and we hold high hopes that it will have a strong 
 positive effect on the D language and community.


 Andrei


Congratulations! I'm very excited about the advantages this can 
bring to our community! Please keep us posted!
Oct 16 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:04:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is 
 now incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The 
 foundation's Board of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali Çehreli, 
 and myself.

 ...

 We're very excited about the creation of the D Language 
 Foundation and we hold high hopes that it will have a strong 
 positive effect on the D language and community.


Many congratulations!  Very much looking forward to what the 
future of the Foundation will bring. :-)
Oct 16 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent HaraldZealot <harald_zealot tut.by> writes:
On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:04:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is 
 now incorporated with the state of Washington, USA.

 ...

 Andrei


Congratulations! I hope this accelerate many things.
Oct 16 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Piotrek <nodata nodata.pl> writes:
Hi,

Congratulations! Awesome news! I hope it will be a great 
adventure for all of us!

Piotrek
Oct 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply suliman <Evermind live.ru> writes:
Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation?
Oct 17 2015
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote:

 Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation?


As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership with 
sponsorship levels etc.

As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep the number 
of officers small for the time being.


Thanks,

Andrei
Oct 17 2015
next sibling parent reply Suliman <evermind live.ru> writes:
On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 16:12:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote:

 Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation?


 As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership 
 with sponsorship levels etc.

 As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep 
 the number of officers small for the time being.


 Thanks,

 Andrei


I hope that I can be helpful as admin of Russian community or 
something like it. At present time we end working at our 
dlang.ru, for my regret the work on CMS take more then one year, 
but I hope that it will be open soon. Again very sorry for long 
promises to open site "in next few weeks" , but it's very hard to 
do with there is primary job.

Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org? I am thinking 
that it can be very good collective forum (project forum) for D. 
I hope that our CMS that will be released very soon would be good 
for it. This NG can be stay for technical questions, while 
dsource could become collective blog as part of D Foundation. 
What do you think about it?
Oct 17 2015
next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 10/17/15 11:19 PM, Suliman wrote:

 Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org?


Brad Anderson <brad dsource.org>

He's very nice but just busy with things. I think he'd be glad to do 
what's right if we make it reasonably easy for him.


Andrei
Oct 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow.lists gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 20:19:05 UTC, Suliman wrote:

 Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org?


I currently host dsource.org as a read-only archive.


 I am thinking that it can be very good collective forum
 (project forum) for D.


I think a new website will be much better suited for this task.
Oct 17 2015
parent reply Suliman <evermind live.ru> writes:
I think a new website will be much better suited for this task.


I do not think that we should diffuse efforts and yet another 
site is bad idea. And now dsource is not live, so it's better 
revive it then create fork.


I currently host dsource.org as a read-only archive


ok, when we are done I will write you
Oct 18 2015
next sibling parent reply Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
On Sunday, October 18, 2015 11:12:18 Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

I think a new website will be much better suited for this task.


 I do not think that we should diffuse efforts and yet another
 site is bad idea. And now dsource is not live, so it's better
 revive it then create fork.


I expect that you're going to get a fair bit of disagreement on that. We've
been telling everyone for years that it's full of old stuff that mostly
only works with old versions of D (most of it D1) and that it should usually
be avoided because of that. Pretty much anything like what it was doing is
done on github now. Resurrecting dsource.org would just cause confusion at
this point. dsource.org exists only for archival purposes, and IMHO, that's
how it should stay.

- Jonathan M Davis
Oct 18 2015
next sibling parent Pradeep Gowda <pradeep btbytes.com> writes:
On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 21:52:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:


 I expect that you're going to get a fair bit of disagreement on 
 that. We've been telling everyone for years that it's full of 
 old stuff that mostly only works with old versions of D (most 
 of it D1) and that it should usually be avoided because of 
 that. Pretty much anything like what it was doing is done on 
 github now. Resurrecting dsource.org would just cause confusion 
 at this point. dsource.org exists only for archival purposes, 
 and IMHO, that's how it should stay.


I agree with this SO much. dsource is straight up toxic for the 
image of D wants to project. Keep projects on github please.
Oct 18 2015
prev sibling parent reply Suliman <evermind live.ru> writes:
 dsource.org exists only for archival purposes, and IMHO, that's 
 how it should stay.

 - Jonathan M Davis


I do not think that it's good idea to storage D1 stuff forever. 
The stuff can be backup to old.dsource.org or so. D need more 
actual materials then saving retro-stuff.
Oct 19 2015
parent Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
On Monday, October 19, 2015 14:37:50 Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 dsource.org exists only for archival purposes, and IMHO, that's
 how it should stay.

 - Jonathan M Davis


 I do not think that it's good idea to storage D1 stuff forever.
 The stuff can be backup to old.dsource.org or so. D need more
 actual materials then saving retro-stuff.


Regardless of whether dsource.org sticks around as an archive for old
projects in the long run, I think that it would be a serious mistake to
reuse the URL for anything else. It is already known and has a reputation -
and that reputation is _not_ for whatever you might want to use it for now.
If you want a new site for D, then come up with a new site. Don't try and
recycle an old one that's already well-known for something else and already
well-known to be a site that does not contain new material.

- Jonathan M Davis
Oct 19 2015
prev sibling parent reply Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 14:52 -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-
announce wrote:

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 I expect that you're going to get a fair bit of disagreement on that.
 We've
 been telling everyone for years that it's full of old stuff that
 mostly
 only works with old versions of D (most of it D1) and that it should
 usually
 be avoided because of that. Pretty much anything like what it was
 doing is
 done on github now. Resurrecting dsource.org would just cause
 confusion at
 this point. dsource.org exists only for archival purposes, and IMHO,
 that's
 how it should stay.


The stories of GoogleCode and Codehaus are that a system set up for
CVS/Subversion cannot compete with GitHub and BitBucket in the DVCS-
era. Has anyone tried GitLab (was Gitorious)? SourceForge is trying to
rework itself, but it is very resource intensive, and this only really
viable for an organization with large funds. All the other "forges"
that I have been associated with are now either gone or left lying
around as archives for historical purposes.

dsource.org is not, in my opinion, worth resurrecting to try and
compete with GitHub and BitBucket. If there is some non-code-hosting
role not fulfilled by dlang.org then maybe, but as it is I would make
the notice on the front page of dsource.org much larger and then just
let it be.=C2=A0
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Oct 19 2015
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-10-19 13:18, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:


 Has anyone tried GitLab (was Gitorious)?


Yes, we're using at work. It's what you use if you don't want to pay for 
GitHub :). I think it's really good, almost as good as GitHub.

It comes bundled with a GitLab CI as well, which is nice.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Oct 19 2015
next sibling parent reply Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On 10/19/2015 10:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2015-10-19 13:18, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:


 Has anyone tried GitLab (was Gitorious)?


 Yes, we're using at work. It's what you use if you don't want to pay for
 GitHub :). I think it's really good, almost as good as GitHub.


 From what I've seen, I think it's better than GitHub. Although I 
haven't really used it for an actual project yet.
Oct 19 2015
next sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-10-19 16:54, Nick Sabalausky wrote:


 From what I've seen, I think it's better than GitHub. Although I
 haven't really used it for an actual project yet.


I've used both GitHub and GitLab quite a lot and I prefer GitHub. It 
feels more polished overall.

But what's nice about GitLab is that it's open source and I really like 
GitLab CI, which is bundled.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Oct 19 2015
prev sibling parent Mengu <mengukagan gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 14:54:34 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 On 10/19/2015 10:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2015-10-19 13:18, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce 
 wrote:


 Has anyone tried GitLab (was Gitorious)?


 Yes, we're using at work. It's what you use if you don't want 
 to pay for
 GitHub :). I think it's really good, almost as good as GitHub.


 From what I've seen, I think it's better than GitHub. Although 
 I haven't really used it for an actual project yet.


in my experience it is not better than github but closer to 
github and i think in near future it will be better.
Oct 19 2015
prev sibling parent reply bachmeier <no spam.com> writes:
On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 14:49:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 It's what you use if you don't want to pay for GitHub :).


Not really. If you have a .edu email address, you get an 
unlimited Bitbucket account for free. It's popular with academics 
for that reason. No setup and no heavy hardware requirements to 
deal with.
Oct 19 2015
parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-10-19 17:21, bachmeier wrote:


 Not really. If you have a .edu email address, you get an unlimited
 Bitbucket account for free. It's popular with academics for that reason.
 No setup and no heavy hardware requirements to deal with.


Well, if you're a company and don't want to put your code in the cloud.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Oct 19 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent bachmeier <no spam.com> writes:
On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 20:19:05 UTC, Suliman wrote:


 Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org? I am thinking 
 that it can be very good collective forum (project forum) for 
 D. I hope that our CMS that will be released very soon would be 
 good for it. This NG can be stay for technical questions, while 
 dsource could become collective blog as part of D Foundation. 
 What do you think about it?


The question of an official D blog arose recently, so I posted 
here, and Mike Parker said that he would like to work on that. 
Apparently (before I was using D) he did something similar.

http://forum.dlang.org/post/suemsfczrpmrzywdbcln forum.dlang.org

The more people willing to work on it the better IMO. But please 
work together to avoid what seems to happen in some form with 
every initiative of this community.
Oct 19 2015
prev sibling parent reply Andre Polykanine via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
Hello Suliman,

      SvDda> I hope that I can be helpful as admin of Russian community or
SvDda> something like it. At present time we end working at our 
SvDda> dlang.ru, for my regret the work on CMS take more then one year, 

Do you need any help?

-- 
With best regards from Ukraine,
Andre
Skype: Francophile
Twitter:  m_elensule; Facebook: menelion
My blog: http://menelion.oire.org/


------------ Original message ------------
From: Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com>
To: digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com
Date created: , 11:19:03 PM
Subject: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated


      On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 16:12:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote:

 Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation?


 As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership 
 with sponsorship levels etc.

 As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep 
 the number of officers small for the time being.


 Thanks,

 Andrei


I hope that I can be helpful as admin of Russian community or 
something like it. At present time we end working at our 
dlang.ru, for my regret the work on CMS take more then one year, 
but I hope that it will be open soon. Again very sorry for long 
promises to open site "in next few weeks" , but it's very hard to 
do with there is primary job.

Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org? I am thinking 
that it can be very good collective forum (project forum) for D. 
I hope that our CMS that will be released very soon would be good 
for it. This NG can be stay for technical questions, while 
dsource could become collective blog as part of D Foundation. 
What do you think about it?
Oct 20 2015
parent reply Suliman <evermind live.ru> writes:
On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 19:54:29 UTC, Andre Polykanine 
wrote:

 Hello Suliman,

       SvDda> I hope that I can be helpful as admin of Russian 
 community or
 SvDda> something like it. At present time we end working at our
 SvDda> dlang.ru, for my regret the work on CMS take more then 
 one year,

 Do you need any help?


Thanks, but now we almost end. We still have few critical bugs, 
on of them is URL format, but work in progress. When our 
programmer will finish with it, we will open site. There is some 
other issues, but I hope to fix it's after site revive.
Oct 20 2015
parent Andre Polykanine via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
SvDda> There is some other issues, but I hope to fix it's after site revive.

Anyway,  if you need help, please feel free to ask. I do speak Russian
:).


-- 
With best regards from Ukraine,
Andre
Skype: Francophile
Twitter:  m_elensule; Facebook: menelion
My blog: http://menelion.oire.org/


------------ Original message ------------
From: Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com>
To: digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com
Date created: , 11:28:20 PM
Subject: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated


      On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 19:54:29 UTC, Andre Polykanine 
wrote:

 Hello Suliman,

       SvDda> I hope that I can be helpful as admin of Russian 
 community or
 SvDda> something like it. At present time we end working at our
 SvDda> dlang.ru, for my regret the work on CMS take more then 
 one year,

 Do you need any help?


Thanks, but now we almost end. We still have few critical bugs, 
on of them is URL format, but work in progress. When our 
programmer will finish with it, we will open site. There is some 
other issues, but I hope to fix it's after site revive.
Oct 20 2015
prev sibling parent reply Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
On Saturday, October 17, 2015 19:12:41 Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote:

 Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation?


 As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership with
 sponsorship levels etc.

 As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep the number
 of officers small for the time being.


I think that it's going to need to be made clear what it even means to be
either a member or an officer. And does any of that relate to the
development teams for the various d-programming-language projects on github?
While having an official, legal entity for D aside from Digital Mars is
certainly a big step, I'm not sure that it's at all clear what it really
means or how it will affect D aside from the fact that it's an entity to
which people can donate money and which will then spend that money towards
the betterment of D. Certainly, none of that is clear to me, and I expect
that it's the same for many others (and much of it may be completely
undecided at this point, but these are details that are going to need to be
clear to the D community at some point and which aren't necessarily
particularly clear right now).

- Jonathan M Davis
Oct 17 2015
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 10/18/2015 02:35 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 On Saturday, October 17, 2015 19:12:41 Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote:

 Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation?


 As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership with
 sponsorship levels etc.

 As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep the number
 of officers small for the time being.


 I think that it's going to need to be made clear what it even means to be
 either a member or an officer. And does any of that relate to the
 development teams for the various d-programming-language projects on github?
 While having an official, legal entity for D aside from Digital Mars is
 certainly a big step, I'm not sure that it's at all clear what it really
 means or how it will affect D aside from the fact that it's an entity to
 which people can donate money and which will then spend that money towards
 the betterment of D. Certainly, none of that is clear to me, and I expect
 that it's the same for many others (and much of it may be completely
 undecided at this point, but these are details that are going to need to be
 clear to the D community at some point and which aren't necessarily
 particularly clear right now).


Thanks for the inquiry. We've had our first organizational meeting 
during which we decided to proceed with creating an EIN (Employer 
Identification Number), which we have since acquired: 47-5352856. Also 
we decided to proceed with creating a bank account. I'm currently 
investigating choosing an appropriate bank, preferably United Bank of Do 
Not Rip Me Off. Suggestions welcome. We'll also proceed with inquiring 
for an accountant to deal with foundation's yearly taxes.

To address your question: there are currently three officers: Walter 
Bright (President), Ali Çehreli (Secretary), and myself (Vice President 
and Treasurer). A member is a supporter and possibly sponsor of the 
Foundation. We're considering several membership kinds (e.g. honorific, 
student, individual, corporate) and levels, some that entail a 
sponsorship, and some that involve no monetary involvement.

An officer is an administrator of the Foundation. We have been advised 
independently by our attorney and by a different foundation creator that 
we should keep officers to a minimum, three being the sweet spot. More 
officers means more politics. So we're moving forward with three 
officers for the time being. Of course the foundation can have several 
employees that are not officers; we hope to get there soon.


Thanks,

Andrei
Oct 20 2015
next sibling parent Piotrek <nodata nodata.pl> writes:
On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 17:08:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Walter Bright (President)


A snap election in US? ;) Congrats Mr President.

Piotrek
Oct 20 2015
prev sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-10-20 19:08, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:


 Thanks for the inquiry. We've had our first organizational meeting
 during which we decided to proceed with creating an EIN (Employer
 Identification Number), which we have since acquired: 47-5352856. Also
 we decided to proceed with creating a bank account. I'm currently
 investigating choosing an appropriate bank, preferably United Bank of Do
 Not Rip Me Off. Suggestions welcome. We'll also proceed with inquiring
 for an accountant to deal with foundation's yearly taxes.

 To address your question: there are currently three officers: Walter
 Bright (President), Ali Çehreli (Secretary), and myself (Vice President
 and Treasurer). A member is a supporter and possibly sponsor of the
 Foundation. We're considering several membership kinds (e.g. honorific,
 student, individual, corporate) and levels, some that entail a
 sponsorship, and some that involve no monetary involvement.

 An officer is an administrator of the Foundation. We have been advised
 independently by our attorney and by a different foundation creator that
 we should keep officers to a minimum, three being the sweet spot.


Please create a new thread with the above summary or something similar.


 More officers means more politics. So we're moving forward with three
 officers for the time being. Of course the foundation can have several
 employees that are not officers; we hope to get there soon.


So currently there are 100% officers, that means 100% politics. Meaning 
nothing will get done :)

Sorry, I couldn't help myself :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Oct 21 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Gary Willoughby <dev nomad.so> writes:
On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:04:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is 
 now incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The 
 foundation's Board of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali Çehreli, 
 and myself.

 Our initial administrative meeting will take place on Monday. 
 Agenda includes EIN (Employee Identification Number) 
 application, funding, and immediate plans for the foundation.

 Going forward we're applying for a non-profit status, which is 
 a longer process (3-6 months).

 We're very excited about the creation of the D Language 
 Foundation and we hold high hopes that it will have a strong 
 positive effect on the D language and community.


 Andrei


Excellent news. I hope the foundation is the shot in the arm that 
D needs.
Oct 18 2015
prev sibling parent Dicebot <public dicebot.lv> writes:
On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:04:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 We're very excited about the creation of the D Language 
 Foundation and we hold high hopes that it will have a strong 
 positive effect on the D language and community.


 Andrei


Looking forward to reading more details about it :P
Oct 18 2015