News on the D Blog: SAOC 2020 and More

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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.