Thank you for your vote. Lazarus is Project of the Month on Sourceforge

[Martin_fr]

Thanks to everyone!

Read the Interview on Sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/blog/august-2017-community-choice-project-of-the-month-lazarus/

[jwdietrich]

Great! That is really good news! Thanks for your efforts!

[andresayang]

Congratulations !

Nice interview.

Rgds

[tianya]

good job

[ps]

Perfect and nice interview, but isn't Lazarus and FPC foundation dead/inactive/invisible?

[jwdietrich]

Perfect and nice interview, but isn't Lazarus and FPC foundation dead/inactive/invisible?

Why should it?

[Thaddy]

Perfect and nice interview, but isn't Lazarus and FPC foundation dead/inactive/invisible?

Not at all. When dedicated funds come in, dedicated tasks are assigned and executed.
Some things that were funded through the foundation are already visible in the compiler and from what I see there is more to come. And I am an outsider.

[jwdietrich]

Perfect and nice interview, but isn't Lazarus and FPC foundation dead/inactive/invisible?

Not at all. When dedicated funds come in, dedicated tasks are assigned and executed.
Some things that were funded through the foundation are already visible in the compiler and from what I see there is more to come. And I am an outsider.

Well, what is in fact odd is that people, who want to apply for membership, are fobbed off for months with a statement that the bylaws are under revision. It would be more honest to write that membership is by invitation only.

[Thaddy]

Perfect and nice interview, but isn't Lazarus and FPC foundation dead/inactive/invisible?

Not at all. When dedicated funds come in, dedicated tasks are assigned and executed.
Some things that were funded through the foundation are already visible in the compiler and from what I see there is more to come. And I am an outsider.

Well, what is in fact odd is that people, who want to apply for membership, are fobbed off for months with a statement that the bylaws are under revision. It would be more honest to write that membership is by invitation only.

Well, you should know... you are in the hall of fame  From what I understand it is a (necessary) vehicle to allocate donated funds in an appropriate manner.
Bylaws take time and - partially - also funding. If that is the issue I am willing to pay 10% towards e.g. the costs of a Dutch law stichting (foundation).
But I understand that part is already taken care of?

[Zoran]

But when you go to souceforge main page, other software is listed there, not Lazarus (see attached screenshot). 

[Thaddy]

Yes. We should take action.... I don't mind freetype, but as I recall it wasn't even listed....

OTOH google comes up with this: https://sourceforge.net/blog/august-2017-community-choice-project-of-the-month-lazarus/ which is the same as above....

[Zoran]

Yes. We should take action.... I don't mind freetype, but as I recall it wasn't even listed....

Now I found that freetype was project of the month for July. I don't know their policy of updating the main page.

[Groffy]

Perfect and nice interview, but isn't Lazarus and FPC foundation dead/inactive/invisible?

To say the truth, until a few month ago I even did not know that this foundation exists. A bit more transparency would be nice. Who is in the board of this foundation? (the decision makers) what about the finacial status? Are there board meetings on a regular base (even if its only online)? What is the difference between making a donation to Lazarus or to the foundation?

I don't know too many foundations for open source projects, I'm only making a comparison to the Firebird foundation wich seems to be pretty well organized.

https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-foundation/


Best regards

[mattias]

AFAIK Michael Van Canneyt and Detlef D. Overbeek are the foundation members. They talk every week.

[howardpc]

The Foundation web page lists Boian Mitov as a third member.