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 Funding GNU Fortran
 *******************
 
    Work on GNU Fortran is still being done mostly by its author, James
 Craig Burley (<craig@jcb-sc.com>), who is a volunteer for, not an
 employee of, the Free Software Foundation (FSF).  (He has a web page at
 `http://world.std.com/%7Eburley'.)
 
    As with other GNU software, funding is important because it can pay
 for needed equipment, personnel, and so on.
 
    The FSF provides information on the best way to fund ongoing
 development of GNU software (such as GNU Fortran) in documents such as
 the "GNUS Bulletin".  Email <gnu@gnu.org> for information on funding
 the FSF.
 
    To fund specific GNU Fortran work in particular, the FSF might
 provide a means for that, but the FSF does not provide direct funding
 to the author of GNU Fortran to continue his work.  The FSF has
 employee salary restrictions that can be incompatible with the
 financial needs of some volunteers, who therefore choose to remain
 volunteers and thus be able to be free to do contract work and
 otherwise make their own schedules for doing GNU work.
 
    Still, funding the FSF at least indirectly benefits work on specific
 projects like GNU Fortran because it ensures the continuing operation
 of the FSF offices, their workstations, their network connections, and
 so on, which are invaluable to volunteers.  (Similarly, hiring Cygnus
 Support can help a project like GNU Fortran--Cygnus has been a
 long-time donor of equipment usage to the author of GNU Fortran, and
 this too has been invaluable--see  Contributors.)
 
    Currently, the only way to directly fund the author of GNU Fortran
 in his work on that project is to hire him for the work you want him to
 do, or donate money to him.  Several people have done this already,
 with the result that he has not needed to immediately find contract
 work on a few occasions.  If more people did this, he would be able to
 plan on not doing contract work for many months and could thus devote
 that time to work on projects (such as the planned changes for 0.6)
 that require longer timeframes to complete.  For the latest information
 on the status of the author, do `finger -l burley@gnu.org' on a UNIX
 system (or any system with a command like UNIX `finger').
 
    Another important way to support work on GNU Fortran is to volunteer
 to help out.  Work is needed on documentation, testing, porting to
 various machines, and in some cases, coding (although major changes
 planned for version 0.6 make it difficult to add manpower to this area).
 Email <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> to volunteer for this work.
 
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