On Friday, 13 July 2018 at 14:20:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
As promised in my tweet of June 30 (and to the handful of
people who emailed me), the cloud of mystery surrounding the
use of the money raised for code-d and its supporting tools has
now been (partially) lifted!
In this post, I lay out the details of how the first $1000 will
be paid out to project maintainer Jan Jurzitza, a.k.a
Webfreak001, and explain what we hope to achieve with this
ecosystem fundraising initiative going forward.
This time around, it all came together in the background of
prepping for DConf with little forethought beyond activating an
Open Collective goal and then working with Jan to determine the
details. Lessons were learned. Later this year, you'll see the
result when we announce the next of what we hope to be an
ongoing series of funding targets.
In the meantime:
The blog
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/07/13/funding-code-d/
Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8yka7b/funding_coded_the_d_blog/
I think this is a worthy cause for the money. I'm glad to see the
D foundation looking more towards investing in these kinds of
community projects, as they make up the D ecosystem that many
opponents of D describe as lacking.
