An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

[QAston]

On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 04:34:02 UTC, QAston wrote:
> This may be completely ridiculous - I'm a newcomer - please 
> destroy me gently.
>
> So, the idea is to make dlang.org a fundation. Here are some 
> possible benefits of doing this:
> -You get more people to "own" the language and therefore 
> seriously care about it's future development.
> --Two people are not enough.
> ---What if someone gets hit by a bus?
> ---Delegate some administrative tasks to other people, so you 
> can focus on improving things
> --Programmers are not all what's needed(the ability to write 
> xml parser doesn't make you a good webdev)
> ---Get a real webdesigner involved
> ---Someone to do proffessional PR and advertising
> ---An admin to maintain all these things
> -You could start taking donations and hire some people to work 
> on D.
> --Like for example, you could pay for a proffessional 
> "enterprise'y" webdesign for dlang.org.
> --Companies want to donate to support tools they're using
> --Funding for DSoC
> -You'd get more interest from companies
> --Managers run companies, not programmers, github is not a 
> collaboration for managers
> --Increase in trust, things are formal and transparent, not 
> done behind the scenes
> --They may want to put a part-time developer to work on a 
> compiler for example
> ---Much easier with a formal institution, where the dev would 
> actually have something to say and can get things done
>
> There are obviously some issues, like the design by comitee 
> problem and possibly others. Still, python, perl, haskell and 
> others have foundations. That's probably why those are much 
> better @ operational proffessionalism.

Note: I don't want to do a cargo-cult here - simple registering 
doesn't do magic, yet it's a valid consideration i think, 
especially if it may help solving some problems pointed out by 
Andrei.