Re: [open-cobol-list] open-cobol : full 85 support : bounty ...

[Patrick]

On 14-10-31 12:43 PM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> hello,
>
> i am initiating a personal project to improve conditions in rural india
> by effecting social change via technology.
> for the same, i have chosen to go ahead with cobol-85 due to it's
> impressive record-oriented data manipulation abilities.
>
> it being a self-funded effort, i can't afford to go for big iron stuff
> from ibm, etc.
> hence, i would prefer to go with open-cobol running under a highly
> modified linux system.
>
> i have come to realize that open-cobol does not yet have full support
> for the cobol-85 standard.
> who be the right person to communicate with regarding raising a bounty
> to bring in full cobol-85 support to open-cobol?
>
> do write back at the earliest.
>
> i am travelling and hence have intermittent network access, please do
> not feel let down if i don't respond immediately, will do so as soon as
> i get back to my operating base in bombay.
>
> best regards,
>
> ~mayuresh
>
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Hi Mayuresh

I think this is going to be tough. Brian Tiffin is our team leader and 
Simon Sobischis is our lead developer but I don't think either really 
gets involved with money much. Perhaps you could explain what 85 
features are missing and why they need to be implemented? If you were 
able to fund the addition of these that would be great but maybe if you 
could make a case for them they could be included without cost.

Life is absolutely crushing me right now and I can't get this done but I 
have been planning on driving down the street to IBM to ask if there was 
a way for them to back our project. It looks like they try to get people 
interested in microfocus which comes with about a $5K + price tag. Our 
project could get people trained in Cobol much faster and if we agreed 
to default to the IBM dialect maybe they would fund us.

-Patrick

P.S my wife is from the Philippines, I am curious how Cobol could be 
used to improves lives in rural underdeveloped places

P.P.S We have had a recent name change and now we are GnuCOBOL