2015 H1 Vision

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On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 00:14:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/1/15 1:46 PM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce 
> wrote:
>> On 2/1/15, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
>> <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2015H1
>>
>> - Create the D Language Foundation
>>
>> What exactly is this idea about, can you elaborate a bit?
>
> Glad you asked. We currently have a few expenses associated 
> with D operation. Walter and I prefer to be discreet about 
> such, but some of them are fairly obvious and non-negligible - 
> such as DConf.
>
> Such expenses have been covered by the kickstarter campaign 
> (for DConf 2013) and now are going out of Walter's and my 
> pocket. We've increased expenditures lately, to good effect, 
> and would like to continue to do so but of course without 
> becoming homeless in the process :o). It's become clear to us 
> that the best way to scale things up is a formal framework, and 
> a foundation is a commonly-used mechanism for such.
>
> A foundation would provide a fair and transparent way for us to 
> accept contributions, small and large, from interested parties, 
> and apply them to further understanding and adoption of D.

By the way I have forwarded the information that something is 
brewing to Sociomantic leadership - will report if they would 
want to participate in it one way or another :)