On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote:
> Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation?

As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership with sponsorship levels etc.

As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep the number of officers small for the time being.


Thanks,

Andrei

On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 16:12:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote:
>> Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation?
>
> As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership with sponsorship levels etc.
>
> As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep the number of officers small for the time being.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

I hope that I can be helpful as admin of Russian community or something like it. At present time we end working at our dlang.ru, for my regret the work on CMS take more then one year, but I hope that it will be open soon. Again very sorry for long promises to open site "in next few weeks" , but it's very hard to do with there is primary job.

Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org? I am thinking that it can be very good collective forum (project forum) for D. I hope that our CMS that will be released very soon would be good for it. This NG can be stay for technical questions, while dsource could become collective blog as part of D Foundation. What do you think about it?

On 10/17/15 11:19 PM, Suliman wrote:
> Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org?

Brad Anderson <brad@dsource.org>

He's very nice but just busy with things. I think he'd be glad to do what's right if we make it reasonably easy for him.


Andrei

On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 20:19:05 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org?

I currently host dsource.org as a read-only archive.

> I am thinking that it can be very good collective forum
> (project forum) for D.

I think a new website will be much better suited for this task.

On Saturday, October 17, 2015 19:12:41 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote:
> > Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation?
>
> As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership with sponsorship levels etc.
>
> As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep the number of officers small for the time being.

I think that it's going to need to be made clear what it even means to be either a member or an officer. And does any of that relate to the development teams for the various d-programming-language projects on github? While having an official, legal entity for D aside from Digital Mars is certainly a big step, I'm not sure that it's at all clear what it really means or how it will affect D aside from the fact that it's an entity to which people can donate money and which will then spend that money towards the betterment of D. Certainly, none of that is clear to me, and I expect that it's the same for many others (and much of it may be completely undecided at this point, but these are details that are going to need to be clear to the D community at some point and which aren't necessarily particularly clear right now).

- Jonathan M Davis

>I think a new website will be much better suited for this task.
I do not think that we should diffuse efforts and yet another site is bad idea. And now dsource is not live, so it's better revive it then create fork.

>I currently host dsource.org as a read-only archive
ok, when we are done I will write you

On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:04:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is now incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The foundation's Board of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali Çehreli, and myself.
>
> Our initial administrative meeting will take place on Monday. Agenda includes EIN (Employee Identification Number) application, funding, and immediate plans for the foundation.
>
> Going forward we're applying for a non-profit status, which is a longer process (3-6 months).
>
> We're very excited about the creation of the D Language Foundation and we hold high hopes that it will have a strong positive effect on the D language and community.
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>
> Andrei

Excellent news. I hope the foundation is the shot in the arm that D needs.

On Sunday, October 18, 2015 11:12:18 Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> >I think a new website will be much better suited for this task.
> I do not think that we should diffuse efforts and yet another site is bad idea. And now dsource is not live, so it's better revive it then create fork.

I expect that you're going to get a fair bit of disagreement on that. We've been telling everyone for years that it's full of old stuff that mostly only works with old versions of D (most of it D1) and that it should usually be avoided because of that. Pretty much anything like what it was doing is done on github now. Resurrecting dsource.org would just cause confusion at this point. dsource.org exists only for archival purposes, and IMHO, that's how it should stay.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 21:52:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> I expect that you're going to get a fair bit of disagreement on that. We've been telling everyone for years that it's full of old stuff that mostly only works with old versions of D (most of it D1) and that it should usually be avoided because of that. Pretty much anything like what it was doing is done on github now. Resurrecting dsource.org would just cause confusion at this point. dsource.org exists only for archival purposes, and IMHO, that's how it should stay.

I agree with this SO much. dsource is straight up toxic for the image of D wants to project. Keep projects on github please.

On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:04:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> We're very excited about the creation of the D Language Foundation and we hold high hopes that it will have a strong positive effect on the D language and community.
>
>
> Andrei

Looking forward to reading more details about it :P