Donate to FPC
lazarus / 62-General

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spigor · 2017-08-28 12:33

I would like to donate to FPC. I only found instructions on how to
donate to Lazarus. Is there a way to donate FPC directly?

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Graeme · 2017-08-28 14:50

I believe you have to do it via the Free Pascal Foundation.

  https://foundation.freepascal.org/donations

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kupferstecher · 2017-08-28 17:46

Wasn't there a discussion lately here on the forum that the foundation
is a third party an isn't related to the FreePascal/Lazarus
developers?

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howardpc · 2017-08-28 18:01

Quote from: kupferstecher on August 28, 2017, 07:46:14 pmWasn't there
a discussion lately here on the forum that the foundation is a third
party an isn't related to the FreePascal/Lazarus developers?

Certainly there was a recent discussion here about the Free Pascal and
Lazarus Foundation.
Michael van Canneyt, one of the trustees is a Free Pascal developer of
long standing.
Detlef Overbeek, one of the trustees, has devoted the last 20 years or
so to promoting Pascal, publishing a periodical and books about Pascal
and organising Pascal user groups and conferences, some focused on
Free Pascal and Lazarus, and some focused on Delphi.

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JuhaManninen · 2017-08-28 18:15

Quote from: kupferstecher on August 28, 2017, 07:46:14 pmWasn't there
a discussion lately here on the forum that the foundation is a third
party an isn't related to the FreePascal/Lazarus developers?
It was partly wrong information from myself and Maciej.
It is good to donate to the foundation. They now concentrate in
sponsoring code projects, at least the Pascal <-> JavaScript
converter.
My hope is to have more PR work and visibility but I realize it
requires work from skilled people.

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kupferstecher · 2017-08-28 20:04

It's good to know and thats its clarified.