Who pays for all this?

[Shammah Chancellor via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-10-06 04:09:26 +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu said:

> On 10/5/14, 7:28 PM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
>> There are many languages which have grown more quickly than D (despite
>> being less interesting) because they have a foundation where people can
>> donate, or some company, which provides for the core developers.   I'm
>> not saying that having a non-profit will magically generate money, but
>> there are a few companies who use D out there who just might be willing
>> to donate non-trivial sums of money to further development if there was
>> a non-profit to see that the money was put to good use.
>> 
>> Just to name a few:
>> 
>> Python: https://www.python.org/psf-landing/
>> Node.JS:  http://www.joyent.com/
>> Perl: http://www.perlfoundation.org
>> Linux Core Developers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation
>> Ruby Core Developers: https://www.heroku.com (A subsidiary of Salesforce)
> 
> C++ also has a foundation since 2012: 
> http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=671. It paid for CppCon 2014, which was 
> very successful.
> 
> I believe a foundation would help D. Unfortunately, setting one up is 
> very laborious, and neither Walter nor I know anything about that - 
> from what I understand it takes a _lot_ of work. If anyone is able and 
> willing to embark on creating a foundation for D, that would be a great 
> help to the language and its community.
> 
> Andrei

I'm willing to put in the work if Walter is on board also.  I don't 
want to do all that work to end up being a DPL Foundation in name only.

-Shammah