On 10/18/2015 02:35 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> 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).

Thanks for the inquiry. We've had our first organizational meeting during which we decided to proceed with creating an EIN (Employer Identification Number), which we have since acquired: 47-5352856. Also we decided to proceed with creating a bank account. I'm currently investigating choosing an appropriate bank, preferably United Bank of Do Not Rip Me Off. Suggestions welcome. We'll also proceed with inquiring for an accountant to deal with foundation's yearly taxes.

To address your question: there are currently three officers: Walter Bright (President), Ali Çehreli (Secretary), and myself (Vice President and Treasurer). A member is a supporter and possibly sponsor of the Foundation. We're considering several membership kinds (e.g. honorific, student, individual, corporate) and levels, some that entail a sponsorship, and some that involve no monetary involvement.

An officer is an administrator of the Foundation. We have been advised independently by our attorney and by a different foundation creator that we should keep officers to a minimum, three being the sweet spot. More officers means more politics. So we're moving forward with three officers for the time being. Of course the foundation can have several employees that are not officers; we hope to get there soon.


Thanks,

Andrei

On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 17:08:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Walter Bright (President)

A snap election in US? ;) Congrats Mr President.

Piotrek

Hello Suliman,

      SvDda> I hope that I can be helpful as admin of Russian community or
SvDda> something like it. At present time we end working at our
SvDda> dlang.ru, for my regret the work on CMS take more then one year,

Do you need any help?

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------------ Original message ------------
From: Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>
To: digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com
Date created: , 11:19:03 PM
Subject: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated


      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 Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 19:54:29 UTC, Andre Polykanine wrote:
> Hello Suliman,
>
>       SvDda> I hope that I can be helpful as admin of Russian community or
> SvDda> something like it. At present time we end working at our
> SvDda> dlang.ru, for my regret the work on CMS take more then one year,
>
> Do you need any help?

Thanks, but now we almost end. We still have few critical bugs, on of them is URL format, but work in progress. When our programmer will finish with it, we will open site. There is some other issues, but I hope to fix it's after site revive.

SvDda> There is some other issues, but I hope to fix it's after site revive.

Anyway,  if you need help, please feel free to ask. I do speak Russian :).


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Andre
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------------ Original message ------------
From: Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>
To: digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com
Date created: , 11:28:20 PM
Subject: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated


      On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 19:54:29 UTC, Andre Polykanine
wrote:
> Hello Suliman,
>
>       SvDda> I hope that I can be helpful as admin of Russian
> community or
> SvDda> something like it. At present time we end working at our
> SvDda> dlang.ru, for my regret the work on CMS take more then
> one year,
>
> Do you need any help?

Thanks, but now we almost end. We still have few critical bugs, on of them is URL format, but work in progress. When our programmer will finish with it, we will open site. There is some other issues, but I hope to fix it's after site revive.

On 2015-10-20 19:08, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Thanks for the inquiry. We've had our first organizational meeting
> during which we decided to proceed with creating an EIN (Employer
> Identification Number), which we have since acquired: 47-5352856. Also
> we decided to proceed with creating a bank account. I'm currently
> investigating choosing an appropriate bank, preferably United Bank of Do
> Not Rip Me Off. Suggestions welcome. We'll also proceed with inquiring
> for an accountant to deal with foundation's yearly taxes.
>
> To address your question: there are currently three officers: Walter
> Bright (President), Ali Çehreli (Secretary), and myself (Vice President
> and Treasurer). A member is a supporter and possibly sponsor of the
> Foundation. We're considering several membership kinds (e.g. honorific,
> student, individual, corporate) and levels, some that entail a
> sponsorship, and some that involve no monetary involvement.
>
> An officer is an administrator of the Foundation. We have been advised
> independently by our attorney and by a different foundation creator that
> we should keep officers to a minimum, three being the sweet spot.

Please create a new thread with the above summary or something similar.

> More officers means more politics. So we're moving forward with three
> officers for the time being. Of course the foundation can have several
> employees that are not officers; we hope to get there soon.

So currently there are 100% officers, that means 100% politics. Meaning nothing will get done :)

Sorry, I couldn't help myself :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg