Does the fund exist?
Are there sponsors?
How can one donate some money to D?

Andrei has been working on a D foundation. I'm not sure where it's at.

On 9 August 2015 at 19:15, ref2401 via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Does the fund exist?
> Are there sponsors?
> How can one donate some money to D?

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.

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.

On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 09:37:41 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> We do something even better, you can place bounties on specific issues that you're willing to pay for:

The bounty thing is pretty useless to me. The amounts don't even cover the administrative overhead (working through all the hassle to actually claim it takes a lot of time), and certainly aren't enough to plan ahead on.

Without being able to reliably budget, it cannot be a replacement for any day jobs.... which means I can't quit a job to make time to do it.

Which means the only bugs I fix are the ones I would have fixed anyway, regardless of the bounty. I suspect a lot of other devs are in the same position.

On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 12:52:24 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 09:37:41 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> We do something even better, you can place bounties on specific issues that you're willing to pay for:
>
> The bounty thing is pretty useless to me. The amounts don't even cover the administrative overhead (working through all the hassle to actually claim it takes a lot of time), and certainly aren't enough to plan ahead on.
>
> Without being able to reliably budget, it cannot be a replacement for any day jobs.... which means I can't quit a job to make time to do it.
>
> Which means the only bugs I fix are the ones I would have fixed anyway, regardless of the bounty. I suspect a lot of other devs are in the same position.

Yes, I have roughly the same critics against the bountysource. If bounties don't cover actual development costs, they don't motivate.

I don't have much experience and time to contribute to code-base directly. But I'd like to donate some money every month. I think (hope) there are several guys who would like to donate to. There must be the way to do it.

On 10/08/2015 1:22 a.m., ref2401 wrote:
> I don't have much experience and time to contribute to code-base
> directly. But I'd like to donate some money every month. I think (hope)
> there are several guys who would like to donate to. There must be the
> way to do it.

Perhaps, what we should do is a double wammy at this.

I know that both me and Vild (can't remember name) streams on livecoding.tv.
Perhaps donating to D streamers will do it?

You get publicity for D AND D gets a bunch of code written in return.

On 09-Aug-2015 16:22, ref2401 wrote:
> I don't have much experience and time to contribute to code-base
> directly. But I'd like to donate some money every month. I think (hope)
> there are several guys who would like to donate to. There must be the
> way to do it.

Other options involve hiring somebody fluent in D to fix the bugs you need.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky

On 8/9/15 5:15 AM, ref2401 wrote:
> Does the fund exist?
> Are there sponsors?
> How can one donate some money to D?

There will be a possibility with the D Language Foundation, hopefully by the end of this year. -- Andrei