D fund

[tired_eyes via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 09:37:41 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 09:15:16 UTC, ref2401 wrote:
>> Does the fund exist?
>> Are there sponsors?
>> How can one donate some money to D?
>
> We do something even better, you can place bounties on specific 
> issues that you're willing to pay for:
>
> https://www.bountysource.com/teams/d
>
> If the issue you're looking for isn't raised already, you can 
> open one in bugzilla (https://issues.dlang.org/, where you can 
> also vote on issues) and then place a bounty for it on 
> bountysource.  As you can see from the above link, people are 
> placing bounties and collecting them, though probably not 
> anywhere near the pace possible.  That's probably at least 
> partly because it's hard to find, with a link from the front 
> page of the wiki but not the homepage.
>
> Andrei is working on setting up a foundation for another way to 
> channel funds towards D.

Didn't even know that D is on Bountysource. This info definitely 
should be presented in some way on dlang.org. Look at 
http://neovim.io/ for example - Bountysource link is presented... 
err... unostentatiously, but they really raise some funds with it.