Hi all, This morning I was glad to found this website: http://foundation.freepascal.org It's about time to have a foundation for our beloved projects. I hope by having this foundation, Free Pascal and Lazarus projects would go forward, being managed better and more professional to produce the best programming language, compiler and IDE for the world. :) Of course, there are still many things need to be fixed and enhanced on both projects. This foundation would be the first step forward. For this foundation, I'd like to say congratulation and good luck. Regards,

–Mr Bee
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Nice!

I suggest adding "CodeTools support for generics" as a new project.

Ondrej

Thank you.

How did you manage to find this site ? I didn't make a public announcement yet :-)

I am glad to hear that you approve. The foundation has been in the works for months, but in the next coming days we'll go public. I was actually waiting for the chairman to create a bank account to which we can couple a paypal account and a button for donations.

The idea of the foundation is as stated on the website: the foundation will not interfere with design decisions, it is there to help with funding: this can be for code improvements/additions, or even making of releases and builds. (which takes a lot of time and equipment)

Lazarus/Free Pascal are volunteer driven projects, and that will remain so. This means that some things are left lying because no-one wants to tackle them. These things can then be taken on by paying someone to do them (if sufficient funds are available).

If the foundation can help in other ways, then that can obviously be discussed too.

Michael.

Ondrej Pokorny wrote

Nice! I suggest adding "CodeTools support for generics" as a new project.

Aren't generics supported yet ?

Maybe you can elaborate what you mean by this support ?

Michael.

No.

Maybe you can elaborate what you mean by this support ?

I can. Search for "generics" in Lazarus mantis to get an idea about it:

http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30271
http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30227
http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30124
http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23782
http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27847
http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29163
http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29785

There may be more.

Ondrej

Michael Van Canneyt wrote

How did you manage to find this site ? I didn't make a public announcement yet :-)

Don't you know, nothing can be kept secret on the Internet. ;-)

I am glad to hear that you approve. The foundation has been in the works for months, but in the next coming days we'll go public.

Well done for getting this off the ground.

Regards,
Graeme

Hello,

very nice to hear about the foundation. Are you open for personal members? I would be interested in promoting Lazarus and Free Pascal. When you get donations, how is the money split to the projects and who decides about which project is getting how much?

Best regards,
Marc

2016-06-27 10:00 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt :

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2016-06-27 5:00 GMT-03:00 Michael Van Canneyt :

It's not exactly a secret:
http://www.blaisepascal.eu/

When I read the news this morning I was astonished, I didn't know that Embarcadero had such a big team in Spain (I am Spanish). In the group of G+ there is a comment of Allen Bauer that explains which parts of Delphi were developed in this office.

Best Regards.

Marc Hanisch wrote

Hello, very nice to hear about the foundation. Are you open for personal members?

That is the idea, but we still need to adapt the bylaws to allow this.

I would be interested in promoting Lazarus and Free Pascal. When you get donations, how is the money split to the projects and who decides about which project is getting how much?

I had 2 tracks in mind:
- Donations for a specific project/purpose (similar to the bounty system).
- General donations.
The foundation members would vote for the project(s) to fund in the latter system. We'd always need an estimate of how much work is involved for each project.

Michael.

Ahah... Well, seems like Detlef is doing things in reverse order here :)

Well, no matter. We were bound to go public in the next days anyway.

Michael.

I also had to post about the site, due to this surprising post yesterday: https://plus.google.com/115782878581272923715/posts/V3KpGyZXgLJ

Long story short... I posted a reply in the main thread about the firing of the 80 developers:
https://plus.google.com/105481197125997414290/posts/FnLvMteQ4dU

as there was interest there. I did not intend to make big announcement, but then this guy obviously saw my post, and decided to announce his own "Foundation", so I had to respond with our announcement: https://plus.google.com/+BoianMitov/posts/46r34KmgrdQ

So now it is known...

With best regards,
Boian Mitov

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That post tied the foundation to recent Delphi events. IMHo not a good thing to do. We are not the Delphi whipping boy.

No, we are not a Delphi whipping boy, we are offering alternative, when the community is in distress.
Offering some calm alternative is the right thing to do at a time of panic. Don't you ;-) ?

With best regards,
Boian Mitov

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