[Pas2js] Funding for Widget sets and IOT driver library.

[Stephen Wright]

 Hi Guys
> As you personally can testify, we have delivered on the last project you sponsored.
I agree, our sponsorship of self-compiling Pas2JS was very productive for us (and hopefully for you and others as well.)  We have got this code integrated into our Xide project now and are working on beautifying it so that hopefully by sometime in January we can put up a decent demo.
On the question of support for widget set development, we want to see these include the option of layout using horizontal and vertical Layout boxes with alignment options and percentage sizing where relevant so they will work with responsive design. If this is on the agenda then I am happy to contribute some funds as soon as a call for support is published on the foundation web site. Hopefully this will allow us to consolidate on the best aspects of the different projects?
As far as new sponsorship is concerned I am keen on seeing progress on Pas2JS “Internet of Things “ support. Google has launched an embedded Android for IOT. This has a useful interface library (the NDK) that can be called from Native code. (See links below) and runs on the RPi3. Perhaps we could develop some wrappers for this C/C++ library? Or maybe others can suggest a better option? In either case I will happily contribute (cash and effort) to a project in this general area if others agree. 
Regards Steve
(P.S.) W.R.T. AndroidThings, I am not sure how well the Lazarus for Android project is going, but we have run earlier versions of Xide on both Android and RPi3 and are now testing the current version on them. Hence Lazarus may run on this platform, or alternatively we can develop on a different platform and deliver the functionality using a hybrid solution based on Pas2JS, Cordova and the Xide run time. I expect that this will be slower than a full native solution but is still good enough for many purposes?
Android Things…..https://developer.android.com/things/versions/things-1.0
Android things native API…….https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/apis/native
getting started……https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/#download-ndk
Licence?https://github.com/googlesamples/android-ndk/blob/master/LICENSE



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  1. Re: Crowd Funding....... (Michael Van Canneyt)
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      lazarus widgetset with pas2js (Ben Grasset)


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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:57:52 +0100 (CET)
From: Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
To: Stephen Wright via Pas2js <pas2js at lists.freepascal.org>
Subject: Re: [Pas2js] Crowd Funding.......
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On Sat, 15 Dec 2018, Stephen Wright via Pas2js wrote:

> Hi Guys I think some crowd funding could be a good idea.  I am sure most
> of us contributing code do so for non financial reasons, However we also
> want to see these efforts used widely and there are some aspects which I
> believe deter new users such as modules not being available on their
> favorite platform.  For example we have failed to get either Pas2JS or CEF
> running on the Raspberry Pi 3.  Neither of these are fundamental problems,
> but they are outside my skill set so I will happily contribute to some
> crowd funding to address this type of housekeeping issue.  Do we need to
> set up some new mechanism, or can we just contribute to the Lazarus
> foundation?

>From my point of view, the only 'official' way to contribute is to sponsor the the Lazarus
foundation.

There are 2 ways to sponsor:

1. A general contribution.
    This is how we have financed (partially at least - the largest part till
    now came from personal funds) the development of pas2js, including the
    new anonymous function support.

2. Contribution for a specific project.
    As you personally can testify, we have delivered on the last project you sponsored.

If you want the latter form, we do need to know and agree on a specific project which
can be sponsored. I will then publish it on the foundation website so other people can
sponsor it too if they want.

Michael.


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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 11:11:20 -0500
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 4:56 AM Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
wrote:

> As far as I know, Sven Barth is communicating with him.
> He confirmed this not so long ago.
>
> Of course, I didn't install a keylogger on his computer to verify that this
> is actually so.
>
> But I'm pretty sure that the availability of anonymous functions in pas2js
> will
> motivate him more to actually finish the work than money would.
>

As far as the keylogger: lol, I should hope not!

As far as being motivated by Pas2JS: I've suspected that might be the case.
For now I'll just keep waiting patiently I suppose...
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