On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 02:39:10PM +0100, Jason den Dulk wrote: > On Saturday, 30 November 2013 at 11:37:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > wrote: > >On 11/30/13 2:12 AM, Jason den Dulk wrote: > >> > >>Instead of re-organising the project to suit the model of > >>third-party website services, the D community needs to recognise > >>that H. S. Teoh is right. The project needs an organised team of > >>full time developers complete with team leadership and project > >>management. > > > >Totally. We're just missing the funds... > > Not to criticise your current efforts, but might I suggest you shift > some emphasis to obtaining sponsorship? I may be wrong, but it > appears that this is something D seriously lacks. All major open > source projects have financial backing. Organisations like the Linux > Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, the Apache Foundation and others > exist in part to raise money for the projects they look after. If D > has serious aspirations of "making it", it should have the same. [...]
Seeing how much we raised for DConf last year through kickstarter, I wonder if it might be possible to use kickstarter to raise funds for hiring a team of developers to work full-time on D? T -- Caffeine underflow. Brain dumped.
