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"Lazarus Foundation" announced
« on: June 27, 2016, 11:01:07 am »
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Announcing the official launch of the "Free Pascal and Lazarus foundation" .
http://foundation.freepascal.org/
The foundation is registered officially as a non profit organisation dedicated to the promotion and sponsoring of the open source Free Pascal and Lazarus project.
The Foundation site is hosted on the official freepascal.org domain, and the founding members include FPC members, me and Detlef the Edior of the "Blaise Pascal Magazine".
The foundation was established a while ago after discussions with members of the FPC community as a way to help fund the development and the promotion of the FPC and Lazarus.
We registered it with the hope that the Delphi will do well, and we will not have to launch publicly. However the events of the last few days, have led us to believe that now it is really needed, to ensure that the spirit of Delphi will survive.
I have also created G+ and FB pages for the foundation.
Please join and participate in the conversation and deciding how the foundation should be structured and operate, and what development should be funded, as well as how best to promote FPC/Lazarus.
I think it may be time to join and push forward FPC/Lazarus visibility.

I would also like to discuss how non RAD Open Source projects, like our little mORMot, may be included in Lazarus in the future.
Lazarus, as an IDE, is just great for server-side solutions based on FPC: easy code completion, fast edition and compilation cycle, stand-alone executables running on most systems and distributions, strong typing and high quality language with abstractions (interface), aggressive memory use due to a no Garbage Collected system...

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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2016, 11:54:21 am »
I am very glad to see the foundation is governed by Dutch law. Is there any specific reason for that? Anyway: it is good! because of the protection levels it offers over other jurisdictions and a good understanding of informatics in law (not everything, but close) . Complements. I'll see what I can do to contribute.
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I am willing to implement payment donation capability. iDEAL (for Dutch) VISA, Mastercard, etc.
You know who I am and know how to reach me.
I don't really have to work anymore :) , so I can do that full-time within a week or so.
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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2016, 01:06:20 pm »
I am very glad to see the foundation is governed by Dutch law. Is there any specific reason for that?
Probably because Detlef and Michael are both from that region.
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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2016, 01:18:46 pm »
The juridic approach is one the main aspects of such a foundation.
A patent war in some countries, may void any attempt to expand FPC and Lazarus...

What is the jursisprudence in Nederlands, about software patents, following EU regulations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention

I hope it is a safe place for us...

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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2016, 03:56:42 pm »
... about software patents, following EU regulations?
Thinking of that makes me sick!!! All I can say is....

http://www.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/
https://stopsoftwarepatents.in/
http://endsoftpatents.org/
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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2016, 04:45:11 pm »
That's a great idea.

Right now I can't help much, but I hope I can in a near future.
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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2016, 01:48:21 pm »
Great news. We certainly need the visibility.

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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2016, 02:19:46 pm »
I am very glad to see the foundation is governed by Dutch law. Is there any specific reason for that?
Probably because Detlef and Michael are both from that region.

The last time I checked, Michael was Belgian. But yes, Detlef's familiarity with foundations in the NL probably has to do with it

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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2016, 03:38:49 pm »
Before you start "sponsoring new features" - how about sorting the documentation out
for what we have already?

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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2016, 04:01:13 pm »
Before you start "sponsoring new features" - how about sorting the documentation out
for what we have already?

I think that the money can be better spent on work that cannot be done by a team of parttime contributors. IOW Large infrastructural work and large new features, and the more complicated bugfixing.

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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2016, 07:42:27 pm »
Nice! Although I would like to see somesort of "framework" (edit. not as software framework, but the content and style) even a loose quide for documentation. Covering both the pure technical documentation of FPC (which is rather nice on the parts I atm. understand) and the more descriptive "end user documentation" (kind of the like the one posted here a few days ago titled as something like "modern object pascal") for both Laz & FPC. I promote this framework since the core team and persons close to it have the best understanding of the whole to make such, this would hopefully quarantee if not high quality documentation, but atleast a somewhat a similar style through the documentation for better usability for enduser and maybe also relief the "empty paper" dilemma of the writers.
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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2016, 08:34:37 pm »
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I think that the money can be better spent on work that cannot be done by a team of parttime contributors. IOW Large infrastructural work and large new features, and the more complicated bugfixing.

I strongly disagree.

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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2016, 05:26:11 pm »
Well, another open source language, the R Project for Statistical Computing, greatly benefits from a foundation. The R foundation supports software development, documentation and events.
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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2016, 12:34:51 pm »
I think that links to Lazarus Foundation should be added:

1. on Lazarus main page (on the bottom, there are links to various Lazarus pages, but currently Lazarus Foundation isn't mentioned there).
2. on forum page (on the left side, in Lazarus category).

Would someone add them, please?
« Last Edit: September 27, 2016, 12:36:57 pm by Zoran »

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Re: "Lazarus Foundation" announced
« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2016, 08:48:39 pm »
I think that links to Lazarus Foundation should be added:

1. on Lazarus main page (on the bottom, there are links to various Lazarus pages, but currently Lazarus Foundation isn't mentioned there).
2. on forum page (on the left side, in Lazarus category).

Would someone add them, please?

Please report this as an issue in the bug tracker under the category "Website".
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