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Comment by lelanthran | Hacker News Reader

Anyone knows what the "other stuff" is?

From the main page of [1]

> Every year, we support and sponsor programs that nurture diverse communities and their projects. Our programs include:

* A Fellowship and Teaching Fellowship Program that funds exploratory, creative, and technical research

* An Advocacy Program that partners with organizations for projects

* Public events that provide platforms for collaboration between our contributors, such as panels and talks that spread the word about the need for equity in these fields

* Summer programs to support emerging coders throughout the world

[1] https://processingfoundation.org/

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The usual racket

I'm under the impression that a 501c3 _can't_ spend its money on developers working on FOSS while being 100% tax deductible because of the US tax code; makes one wonder whether it would be worthwhile to lobby/organize to get that changed.

Can you elaborate as to how you arrived at that conclusion?

Naively, because it might help more pro-social and FOSS software get made?

Thats... what? Is that a reply to my comment or just markov chaining?

They believed you were asking why they thought it might be useful to lobby for a change in regulations, not why they thought there was a regulation in the first place

Odd

From: https://processingfoundation.org/

"We invite you to meditate on digital fragmentation and infrastructure that lays its foundation through the global white capitalist, colonialist, and imperialist framework we live in today through our Land and Digital Acknowledgements."

tl;dr: divisive nonsense

Yeah it’s really bizarre. It reminds me of times when I’ve gone to a charities website and things start getting weird and eventually I realize it’s run by some religious cult. Sucks though, seems like at a certain point you should just be honest that you are more interested in social issues so that people who want to support the actual development of processing know your foundation isn’t the way to do so.

>should just be honest that you are more interested in social issues so that people who want to support the actual development of processing know your foundation isn’t the way to do so.

That's a feature, not a bug.

> at a certain point you should just be honest

Yeah but then nobody will give you $10M in crypto

I don’t know tbh I’d assume those people donate because they made some money off of the work done on processing and want to give some back to keep development going. I’d think if you wanted to donate to the stuff they’re on about you’d find a non profit specifically for that purpose. I’m sure there are plenty and they’re probably better at it than a software foundation haha.

Yeah, on further examination it looks like a lot of NFT artists created work using processing and have kicked it back, which explains why the donations were so crypto-heavy. It was giving odd vibes for a bit but it seems cool.

It's right there on the homepage. What more do you want?

I read the whole thing and Jesus Christ this is atrocious. Can’t imagine what it feels like to found a framework that became a driving force behind “creative coding” and watch it taken over by indoctrinated zealots who don’t care about the craft and the art of programming, and waste resources on social posturing.

Ironically, not paying the producers and maintainers of the code is classic capitalism.

It reads like it was written by a person who does not seek to divide.

Sounds like commie gobbledygook to me.

This comment has strong 1960s vibes.

It's likely invoking Norm MacDonald (who used this phrase humorously when Sara Silverman was explaining what a "comedy collective" was)

It's a reference to Norm Macdonald

I think DEI initiatives.

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