From 75c8f4655bf3ea4a385f118657666a215a9d4873 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20=C4=8Cert=C3=ADk?= Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:29:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add a Brief History section to the webpage --- source/community.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/source/community.md b/source/community.md index e96fee2bd972..ba313fa5c968 100644 --- a/source/community.md +++ b/source/community.md @@ -134,6 +134,24 @@ See the full [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/fortran-lang/.github/blob/main ::::: +:::{div} sd-text-left sd-fs-2 sd-text-primary +Brief History +::: + +The Fortran-lang project was started at the beginning of 2020 by Ondřej Čertík +and Milan Curcic +([[1]](https://ondrejcertik.com/blog/2021/03/resurrecting-fortran/), +[[2]](https://medium.com/modern-fortran/first-year-of-fortran-lang-d8796bfa0067)). +The effort built upon work of several members of the Fortran Standards +Committee that built a GitHub proposals repository to track proposals to the +Standards Committee, which lead to the creation of the Fortran Standard Library +(`stdlib`), the Fortran Package Manager (`fpm`) and the `fortra-lang.org` +website. The webpage quickly become the top result in major search engines for +"Fortran". We created a Fortran Discourse where the whole Fortran community can +meet and discuss, make announcements, ask for help, etc. The Fortran-lang +effort was joined by hundreds of contributors. At the end of 2022 the +Fortran-lang project was accepted under NumFOCUS for fiscal sponsorship. + :::{div} sd-text-left sd-fs-2 sd-text-primary Fortran-lang Contributors :::