The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 19 November 2015 at 12:31:01 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 11/17/2015 04:01 PM, cym13 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation 
>>> for the
>>> Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language 
>>> Foundation
>>> has a bank account seeded with $5000 - as I promised, it's a 
>>> round-up
>>> of my last royalty check.
>>>
>>> The D Language Foundation doesn't yet have non-profit status, 
>>> so we
>>> can't accept donations in that account; that'll take a few 
>>> more
>>> months. I'll keep everybody posted.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> What do you plan to do concretely with that money? Advertise? 
>> Support
>> projects?
>
> DConf is our largest annual spender. Also we plan a few small 
> monthly expenses. I'll keep everyone posted. -- Andrei

I have a recommendation for fairly small expense which would be a 
perfect job for the newly formed Foundation. Get some 
certificates for D. Walter was interested in the past with 
getting one for Digital Mars to use but I think the idea got lost 
somewhere along the way. There are three different certificates 
that would be good to have:

1. SSL certificate for dlang.org (optionally getting an EV 
certificate would be a good way to advertise the Foundation in 
the address bar).
2. Code signing certificate for Windows from a Certificate 
Authority.
3. OS X code signing certificate from Apple.

The first two can be done pretty inexpensively through StartSSL 
(there are plenty of other options though).

Apple isn't as important because I don't believe it does the 
Untrusted Developer warning for opening .dmg files nor does it do 
it for running command line applications. It's good for tamper 
security though. To register with Apple you'll need a DUNS number 
for the Foundation which you can create through Dun & Bradshaw 
(not sure if it's free).

Code signing the installers and executables means the Windows 
SmartScreen protection systems won't kick in and give big, scary 
warnings with non-obvious workarounds about the D downloads. It 
also means the Admin Privilege request dialog would display the 
Foundation's name which looks way more professional and 
trustworthy than an unsigned executable. I think doing this 
eventually is important if you want D to look professional and 
ready for primetime.