There's a problem in the D economic system

[Mike Parker]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 08:58:56 UTC, IGotD- wrote:

> I would go another direction. If the foundation has the money, 
> why not hire a person or two to do development and fixes. 
> Priority could be based on top contributes wishes. Just having 
> a few people is more manageable when it comes to byrocracy.
>
> Hiring students is more difficult but cheaper as usually it 
> must be on a project where they can obtain university credits.

We don't have the money to pay people a fair wage for all the 
work that needs doing. That's why we started the Human Resource 
fund[1][2]. We hope to use that to pay people to get some of the 
big ticket items completed. But to do that, we need the grow the 
pot quite a bit bigger. We're thankful to WekaIO for seeding it.

The upcoming SAOC 2019 [3] is another means to get stuff done. 
Symmetry is planning to donate more money for the event this year 
than last.

Hopefully, the new bounty system will prove more effective than 
the last.

[1] https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NTUxOTc=
[2] 
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/06/23/dconf-t-shirts-and-the-human-resource-fund/
[3] https://dlang.org/blog/symmetry-autumn-of-code/