The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

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