Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-15 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 17:06:00 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 14:13:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: At the current exchange rate, a venti-sized cup of drip coffee at Starbucks in Korea is $4.51. When I go to GA, it's cheaper. A venti Americano is $4.79. But I

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-15 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 14:13:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: At the current exchange rate, a venti-sized cup of drip coffee at Starbucks in Korea is $4.51. When I go to GA, it's cheaper. A venti Americano is $4.79. But I think when people talk about $5 coffees, they're referring to lattes

Re: OT: Coffee prices [was Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective]

2018-03-15 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 13:10:57 UTC, Seb wrote: (though in Germany that's often cheaper than one cup of coffee) On second thought, maybe I'll move to Germany. I'll suffer expensive coffee in exchange for cheap beer ;-)

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 12:36:24 UTC, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 12:00:42 UTC, Seb wrote: Yeah, the idea is that 5$ a month isn't much (~ one coffee in most countries), but if 500 people donate one coffee a month, you get the entire coffee machine with a warp engine :)

OT: Coffee prices [was Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective]

2018-03-15 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 12:36:24 UTC, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 12:00:42 UTC, Seb wrote: Yeah, the idea is that 5$ a month isn't much (~ one coffee in most countries), but if 500 people donate one coffee a month, you get the entire coffee machine with a warp engine :)

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-15 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 12:00:42 UTC, Seb wrote: Yeah, the idea is that 5$ a month isn't much (~ one coffee in most countries), but if 500 people donate one coffee a month, you get the entire coffee machine with a warp engine :) Sorry to derail, but I had to ask: where does 1 coffee

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-14 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 12:00:42 UTC, Seb wrote: On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 11:51:04 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: [...] And last but not least place a small donate button on every page! Not sure whether that's a good idea, it might look a bit needy. We already have a donate

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-14 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 11:51:04 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:45:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:26:24 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: The Website needs the link, too!: https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html Yes,

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-14 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:45:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:26:24 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: The Website needs the link, too!: https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html Yes, there's a PR for it waiting to be merged.

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-13 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:54:56 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 15:26:24 Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: [...] BTW, opencollective.com has a link to windfair.net listed in your backer profile, but it links via https, and windfair.net seems

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-13 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 15:26:24 Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:32:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > > Today, the D Language Foundation has launched a page at Open > > Collective: > > > > https://opencollective.com

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:26:24 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: The Website needs the link, too!: https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html Yes, there's a PR for it waiting to be merged. https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2272

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-13 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:32:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Today, the D Language Foundation has launched a page at Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/dlang. This brings some transparency to the process and opens new opportunities for how the Foundation handles donations

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-13 Thread M.M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 09:48:10 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 13/03/2018 10:39 PM, M.M. wrote: On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-13 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 13/03/2018 10:39 PM, M.M. wrote: On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-13 Thread M.M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:32:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Today, the D Language Foundation has launched a page at Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/dlang. This brings some transparency to the process and opens new opportunities for how the Foundation handles donations

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I will talk with some cash.

The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Today, the D Language Foundation has launched a page at Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/dlang. This brings some transparency to the process and opens new opportunities for how the Foundation handles donations. The blog post: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/12/the-d-foundation

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2017-11-10 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 12:39:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks all for answering! Well there is a relatively low-risk option to make some 5%-7% annually by investing in marketplace lending, see https://lendingclub.com/. (Individuals may do the same, too, btw - look into it!)

Happy New Year from the D Language Foundation

2017-01-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
A brief message from the D Language Foundation, penned by Ali Çehreli, for the D community to send us into the new year. https://dlang.org/blog/2017/01/02/happy-new-year-from-the-d-language-foundation/

Re: D Language Foundation

2016-09-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 09/30/2016 03:34 AM, Jack Applegame wrote: Is there a way to donate to the D Language Foundation? Thank you very much for your consideration! We have yet to define a structure for donations. For now, if you make a paypal payment to foundat...@dlang.org, we'll send you a letter that you

D Language Foundation

2016-09-30 Thread Jack Applegame via Digitalmars-d
Is there a way to donate to the D Language Foundation?

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-25 Thread Mark via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 at 13:47:38 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 11:16:47 UTC, Mark wrote: [...] I think you can make 1-2% a year without taking a lot of risk, e.g. by investing in investment-grade corporate bonds with short maturity. [...] Or buying

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-21 Thread Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 11:16:47 UTC, Mark wrote: [...] I think you can make 1-2% a year without taking a lot of risk, e.g. by investing in investment-grade corporate bonds with short maturity. [...] Or buying some coca-cola shares.

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-21 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 16:13:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The basic idea here is to have a buffer for short-term borrowing. For example, for DConf we'd need to plop down some money for renting a conference hall until proceeds from registration roll in. The notion of being able

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 9/19/2016 10:44 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: [...] Thanks for taking the time to post this stuff - it's good reading. Stuff I didn't know.

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-19 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 September 2016 at 02:39:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 9/18/2016 5:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks. Well this kinda boils down to a tautology. I remember my wife asked me once "what kind of insurance could protect us against anything"? There isn't one (which is kinda

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 9/18/2016 5:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks. Well this kinda boils down to a tautology. I remember my wife asked me once "what kind of insurance could protect us against anything"? There isn't one (which is kinda terrifying first time you realize it). In the US, as an aside, I don't

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 09/18/2016 07:46 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: So there's no easy option, and I am also not able to give investment advice. But definitely worry about the return of your capital first, and the return on it next rather than the other way around. Thanks. Well this kinda boils down to a

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
See here on the rehypothecation risk of margin accounts. A margin account allows your broker to lend your securities to the street. If your broker should get into trouble, you are potentially in a significantly worse position than if you held a non margin account.

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 16:13:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 9/18/16 11:44 AM, jmh530 wrote: On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 12:39:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks all for answering! Well there is a relatively low-risk option to make some 5%-7% annually by investing

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 16:13:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Wouldn't that be risk from the unsecured personal lending business, which although numerically similar has a different dynamics? In my head, I was imagining an efficient frontier and where a 5-7% return would get

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread Mark via Digitalmars-d
I think it would be best to speak to people from other non-profit organizations (preferably ones that are very similar, at least in spirit, to the D Language Foundation) about their experience with such matters. Even if the Foundation currently has no more cash than a typical (or not so

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 9/18/16 11:44 AM, jmh530 wrote: On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 12:39:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks all for answering! Well there is a relatively low-risk option to make some 5%-7% annually by investing in marketplace lending, see https://lendingclub.com/. (Individuals may do

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 12:39:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks all for answering! Well there is a relatively low-risk option to make some 5%-7% annually by investing in marketplace lending, see https://lendingclub.com/. (Individuals may do the same, too, btw - look into it!)

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 9/18/16 7:16 AM, Mark wrote: On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 14:22:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The Foundation's cash os currently sitting in a checking account at Bank of America. I've googled for things like "brokerage accounts for non-profit" and figured that most or all deep

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-18 Thread Mark via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 14:22:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The Foundation's cash os currently sitting in a checking account at Bank of America. I've googled for things like "brokerage accounts for non-profit" and figured that most or all deep discount brokers (Fidelity,

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-17 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 01:04:16 UTC, dewitt wrote: If you are actively trading I like Interactive Brokers. I know u mentioned before about doing some day trading so they are also good for that. If you looking for a more buy and hold strategy for the Foundation then I would just

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-17 Thread dewitt via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 16:58:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 09/17/2016 12:53 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's how I hear it worked in the 50's, but does anyone but the brokers ever gain any real interest from such accounts anymore? From everything I've ever seen and heard,

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 09/17/2016 12:58 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 09/17/2016 12:53 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's how I hear it worked in the 50's, but does anyone but the brokers ever gain any real interest from such accounts anymore? From everything I've ever seen and heard, they pretty much all now

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 09/17/2016 12:53 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's how I hear it worked in the 50's, but does anyone but the brokers ever gain any real interest from such accounts anymore? From everything I've ever seen and heard, they pretty much all now work such that basically all the earnings get scooped

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 09/17/2016 12:41 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 9/17/16 11:31 AM, John Colvin wrote: Ignorant here: Why would the foundation need a brokerage account? Companies (non-profits included) usually have some cash lying around. Some of that cash is needed for operational expenses (salaries,

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 9/17/16 11:31 AM, John Colvin wrote: Ignorant here: Why would the foundation need a brokerage account? Companies (non-profits included) usually have some cash lying around. Some of that cash is needed for operational expenses (salaries, rents, utilities, bills etc) and for more rare

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-17 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 14:22:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The Foundation's cash os currently sitting in a checking account at Bank of America. I've googled for things like "brokerage accounts for non-profit" and figured that most or all deep discount brokers (Fidelity,

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-17 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 18/09/2016 2:22 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The Foundation's cash os currently sitting in a checking account at Bank of America. I've googled for things like "brokerage accounts for non-profit" and figured that most or all deep discount brokers (Fidelity, Merrill, Etrade etc) allow opening

[OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2016-09-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
The Foundation's cash os currently sitting in a checking account at Bank of America. I've googled for things like "brokerage accounts for non-profit" and figured that most or all deep discount brokers (Fidelity, Merrill, Etrade etc) allow opening accounts for non-profit organizations. Bank of

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-30 Thread Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 17:03:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're happy to report that the D Language Foundation is now a public charity operating under US Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). The decision is retroactive to September 23, 2015. This has wide-ranging implications

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-30 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/30/2016 05:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Unless we have a sort of branch in other countries, I don't see what we > can do here. -- Andrei EU branch of D foundation would be interesting but I think it is much premature to think about that :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-30 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 10:25 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars- d-announce wrote: […] > Unless we have a sort of branch in other countries, I don't see what > we  > can do here. -- Andrei Understood, but without a solution it means no-one outside the USA can contribute and have the D

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/30/2016 08:36 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Andrei, This is splendid news for the purveying of the D Programming language. The question is though: this covers the USA what about the Rest of the World? For the language itself it is almost irrelevant where the owning

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-30 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 12:36:12 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Andrei, This is splendid news for the purveying of the D Programming language.  The question is though: this covers the USA what about the Rest of the World? For Germany this would probably require a separate application to

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-29 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
Awesome! So has anybody got some games they'd be willing to put on a humble bundle ;)

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-29 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/29/2016 1:42 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Thanks for your work on this Andrei. Yes, Andrei took charge of this and did all the work. Thank you!

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-29 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 17:03:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're happy to report that the D Language Foundation is now a public charity operating under US Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). The decision is retroactive to September 23, 2015. This has wide-ranging implications

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-29 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/29/16 1:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're happy to report that the D Language Foundation is now a public charity operating under US Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). The decision is retroactive to September 23, 2015. This has wide-ranging implications, the most important being

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-29 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 17:03:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're happy to report that the D Language Foundation is now a public charity operating under US Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). The decision is retroactive to September 23, 2015. This has wide-ranging implications

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-29 Thread Robert burner Schadek via Digitalmars-d-announce
Awesome Job

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-29 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 17:03:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're happy to report that the D Language Foundation is now a public charity operating under US Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). The decision is retroactive to September 23, 2015. This has wide-ranging implications

The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
We're happy to report that the D Language Foundation is now a public charity operating under US Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). The decision is retroactive to September 23, 2015. This has wide-ranging implications, the most important being that individuals and organizations may make

Official press releases from the D Language Foundation

2016-08-13 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d
After ldc and dub both got their first stable release this year and we now have a beautiful tour for beginners, it's time for making more noise about D. In this thread [1] it was suggested to send press releases from the D Foundation to (major) IT press. I think that's a great idea and we

Re: The D Language Foundation has filed for non-profit status

2016-07-29 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 02:16:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Effective today the IRS has received the application of The D Language Foundation for tax-exempt (non-profit) status. An attorney and an accountant have helped me with the application. Going forward

Re: The D Language Foundation has filed for non-profit status

2016-07-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/21/16 5:16 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 02:16:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: By the Foundation bylaws we defined, the officers of the Foundation (Walter, Ali, and myself) are not allowed to receive payment for their work on the Foundation. You can still claim

Re: The D Language Foundation has filed for non-profit status

2016-07-21 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
D is almost becoming respectable ;-) It's come far from even 2013

Re: The D Language Foundation has filed for non-profit status

2016-07-21 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 02:16:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: By the Foundation bylaws we defined, the officers of the Foundation (Walter, Ali, and myself) are not allowed to receive payment for their work on the Foundation. You can still claim expenses though, no?

Re: The D Language Foundation has filed for non-profit status

2016-07-20 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thank you for your work to get this done. It's a major step forward.

Re: The D Language Foundation has filed for non-profit status

2016-07-20 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 21/07/2016 2:16 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Effective today the IRS has received the application of The D Language Foundation for tax-exempt (non-profit) status. An attorney and an accountant have helped me with the application. Going forward, they will work with us

The D Language Foundation has filed for non-profit status

2016-07-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello everyone, Effective today the IRS has received the application of The D Language Foundation for tax-exempt (non-profit) status. An attorney and an accountant have helped me with the application. Going forward, they will work with us on a need basis. Following the next few months we

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-27 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 12:35:35 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Whoa, this must be pretty new. Though subkey used seems to be almost 1 year old now. sub rsa4096/12BB1939 2015-02-27 Why should I renew the subkey w/o cause? Then everybody would need to redownload my public keys. In any case I'd

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-27 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 November 2015 at 04:27:51 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 12:35:35 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Whoa, this must be pretty new. Though subkey used seems to be almost 1 year old now. sub rsa4096/12BB1939 2015-02-27 Why should I renew the subkey w/o cause? Then

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-23 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-11-22 22:45, Brad Anderson wrote: Apple isn't as important because I don't believe it does the Untrusted Developer warning for opening .dmg files nor does it do it for running command line applications. It does for installers. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-23 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 04:37:18 UTC, Dicebot wrote: And how about GPG signing of releases which comes free and actually helps? :P When you hover over any of the download links on http://dlang.org/download.html, a corresponding .sig link will appear. Is this not what you're referring

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-23 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 22 November 2015 at 21:45:06 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: 1. SSL certificate for dlang.org (optionally getting an EV certificate would be a good way to advertise the Foundation in the address bar). With https://letsencrypt.org/ launching very soon, it might not be necessary to pay

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-23 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 08:33:10 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 04:37:18 UTC, Dicebot wrote: And how about GPG signing of releases which comes free and actually helps? :P When you hover over any of the download links on http://dlang.org/download.html, a

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded with $5000 - as I promised, it's a round-up of my last royalty check. The D Language Foundation doesn't yet have non-profit status, so we can't accept donations in that account; that'll take a few more

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 04:37:18 UTC, Dicebot wrote: And how about GPG signing of releases which comes free and actually helps? :P On linux, sure. That'd be a good idea. That doesn't help with the usage problems on the other platforms though and GPG is kind of useless without the

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
And how about GPG signing of releases which comes free and actually helps? :P

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
rescu wrote: >> >>> On 11/17/2015 04:01 PM, cym13 wrote: >>> >>>> On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>>> >>>>> Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the >>>>

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 23/11/15 4:55 PM, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: It doesn't require a system change to run unsigned stuff on the Mac, it just requires knowing the trick: open by ctrl-clicking on the icon and choosing "Open" from the pop-up menu. If you open it that way then it will ask you if

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 03:59:25 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 23/11/15 4:55 PM, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: It doesn't require a system change to run unsigned stuff on the Mac, it just requires knowing the trick: open by ctrl-clicking on the icon and choosing "Open"

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded with $5000 - as I promised, it's a round-up of my last royalty check. The D Language Foundation doesn't yet have non-profit status, so we can't accept donations in that account; that'll take a few more months. I'll keep everybody posted

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/17/2015 04:01 PM, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded with $5000 - as I

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-18 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 21:01:42 UTC, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-17 Thread cym13 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded with $5000 - as I promised, it's a round-up of my last

The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded with $5000 - as I promised, it's a round-up of my last royalty check. The D Language Foundation doesn't yet have non-profit status

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-20 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-20 Thread Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-20 Thread Andre Polykanine via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-20 Thread Andre Polykanine via Digitalmars-d-announce
org/ 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:

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-19 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-19 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 14:52 -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d- announce 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

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-10-19 13:18, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Has anyone tried GitLab (was Gitorious)? Yes, we're using at work. It's what you use if you don't want to pay for GitHub :). I think it's really good, almost as good as GitHub. It comes bundled with a GitLab CI as well,

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/19/2015 10:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-10-19 13:18, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Has anyone tried GitLab (was Gitorious)? Yes, we're using at work. It's what you use if you don't want to pay for GitHub :). I think it's really good, almost as good as GitHub.

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-19 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 14:49:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: It's what you use if you don't want to pay for GitHub :). Not really. If you have a .edu email address, you get an unlimited Bitbucket account for free. It's popular with academics for that reason. No setup and no heavy

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-19 Thread Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce
dsource.org exists only for archival purposes, and IMHO, that's how it should stay. - Jonathan M Davis I do not think that it's good idea to storage D1 stuff forever. The stuff can be backup to old.dsource.org or so. D need more actual materials then saving retro-stuff.

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