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?

Ask a D developer you appreciate (in private) to give you his paypal/email, and pay him directly like he's a musician on the side of the road. He will be motivated by this simple gesture of receiving the few dollars, his happiness is going to reflect through his open source work, and the D community will benefit as a whole. It would probably help if D developers put a donations paypal link on their README.md, but I think most people have such a grim outlook on making money from the open source work, that they don't even take the time to put that link on there.

On 8/9/2015 6:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> There will be a possibility with the D Language Foundation, hopefully by the end
> of this year. -- Andrei

Looking forward to it. We can also use the foundation to sell some D swag so that people will get something for their donation. After all, nothing is cooler than wearing a D t-shirt to a C++/Java/Go/Rust convention!

On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 01:34:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/9/2015 6:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> There will be a possibility with the D Language Foundation, hopefully by the end
>> of this year. -- Andrei
>
> Looking forward to it. We can also use the foundation to sell some D swag so that people will get something for their donation. After all, nothing is cooler than wearing a D t-shirt to a C++/Java/Go/Rust convention!

Are you one of those guys who wears a Star Trek t-shirt to a Star Wars convention (or vice versa)? ;)

- Jonathan M Davis

On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 13:44:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 01:34:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 8/9/2015 6:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> There will be a possibility with the D Language Foundation, hopefully by the end
>>> of this year. -- Andrei
>>
>> Looking forward to it. We can also use the foundation to sell some D swag so that people will get something for their donation. After all, nothing is cooler than wearing a D t-shirt to a C++/Java/Go/Rust convention!
>
> Are you one of those guys who wears a Star Trek t-shirt to a Star Wars convention (or vice versa)? ;)
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

You mean to say you're not? Gasp!

On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 01:34:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/9/2015 6:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> There will be a possibility with the D Language Foundation, hopefully by the end
>> of this year. -- Andrei
>
> Looking forward to it. We can also use the foundation to sell some D swag so that people will get something for their donation. After all, nothing is cooler than wearing a D t-shirt to a C++/Java/Go/Rust convention!

Will the swag feature http://dlangcomicstrips.tumblr.com/ ?

On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 16:58:15 UTC, vladde wrote:
> On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 01:34:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 8/9/2015 6:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> There will be a possibility with the D Language Foundation, hopefully by the end
>>> of this year. -- Andrei
>>
>> Looking forward to it. We can also use the foundation to sell some D swag so that people will get something for their donation. After all, nothing is cooler than wearing a D t-shirt to a C++/Java/Go/Rust convention!
>
> Will the swag feature http://dlangcomicstrips.tumblr.com/ ?

Lol Wtf who makes those? They are hilarious!

On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 13:52:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

What exactly will any funds the D foundation gets be used for? Would be great if D could have full time paid devs working on it.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 05:00:38PM +0000, Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 16:58:15 UTC, vladde wrote:
> >On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 01:34:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> >>On 8/9/2015 6:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>>There will be a possibility with the D Language Foundation, hopefully by the end of this year. -- Andrei
> >>
> >>Looking forward to it. We can also use the foundation to sell some D swag so that people will get something for their donation. After all, nothing is cooler than wearing a D t-shirt to a C++/Java/Go/Rust convention!
> >
> >Will the swag feature http://dlangcomicstrips.tumblr.com/ ?
> 
> Lol Wtf who makes those? They are hilarious!

Totally hilarious. I wan moar! ;-)


T

-- 
The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

On 8/10/15 1:10 PM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 13:52:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 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
>
> What exactly will any funds the D foundation gets be used for? Would be
> great if D could have full time paid devs working on it.

Straight development plus minding releases, organizing DConf, website, media, PR, and more. -- Andrei

On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 20:28:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> Straight development plus minding releases, organizing DConf, website, media, PR, and more. -- Andrei

May I suggest copying some of what Boost does on their donate page (monthly recurring donations, esp.). I also like pypy's approach of having a call for donations for specific projects and showing the progress (you'd probably want to start small though).