Spectrum Support Fund - When you hear talk about the current state of the Spectrum platform, these are often quite extreme opinions.

                                          
                                          
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    When you hear people talk about today
condition of the Spectrum platform, then often
These are pretty extreme opinions. If we reduce
them to brief formulations, it will turn out
like:                                    
                                          
 Spectrum is dead!                        
                                          
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                Spectrum rulez forever! 
                                          
    But the truth, as always, is somewhere
in the middle.  Spectrum is alive. But will he
live into the next century? Will he stay
the fascinating world in which today
there are more than one thousand creatively minded people living
young (and not so young :-)) people?  Or
will perish, crushedgame consoles with
one side and computer combines with
different?                                   
    A real look at the problems - the first
a step towards solving them. And the reality is that
if nothing is done for development
and popularization of the Spectrum, then will come true in
in the end the most gloomy forecasts.      
 Therefore, there is nothing surprising in
that the project is being born right now,
which may become the foundation
Spectrum's future heyday.              
    Its inspirer and organizer
is Andrey, perhaps known to you
Savichev.  The idea of creating a "Support Fund"
Spectrum seems to be starting to gather around
him of people who want and, I want to believe,
capable of changing today's situation for the better
a bleak picture of the life of spektrumists.
 Now A. Savichev is busy searching for people
who will be on the board of trustees
Foundation (sponsors must be understood), and
preparation of constituent documents,
necessary for registration of the Fund as
public organization.    This is the case
troublesome and comes, as far as I know, with
with varying success.                       
 Let's jump ahead a little.  If
imagine what a public
the organization was created and, having decided its
organizational affairs,she's finally ready
take on Spectrum's problems.  Than in
should she be addressed first?      
 It seems to me that the main problem for
all of us is almost completely absent
promising software: interesting games and
application programs.   Write software on
at the modern level on the Spectrum it is possible. This
doesn't even need proof. But
there is no creation industry
software.  For written
program authors no longer dream of getting
some money, but this is not at all
encourages continued work. Here is the Foundation and
could be a guarantee that real work
the programmer will accordingly
assessed and paid.   Having some
sponsorship, and perhaps not only
sponsorship, money the Foundation could accept
projects for creating software and
finance them on a competitive basis. Then
there will be a burden lifted from programmers
problems of distribution of their products.    
    Creation of a network of distributors,
capable of competing with pirates,
should be the next problem
which the Foundation will undertake.   It’s quite
a subscription system may be appropriate
programs being prepared for sale.Mass
distribution of the program to everyone at once
will cut the ground from under the feet of those who wish
traders who continue to pirate. A
what the Foundation will be
by a registered organization, will increase
trust, both from users and
and from programmers. This scheme is not
new, therefore quite viable.       
 And finally, third, than it should be
The Foundation will probably be engaged in publishing
Spectrum literature and magazine,
capable of uniting, as once everyone
spektrumists of the former Union. Large number
electronic magazines published today and
newspapers, among which there are very
popular, speaks of living thought
Spectrum fans. And a small amount
popular ones, says how it is not
paradoxically, about high
readers' interest in
high-quality and up-to-date information.         
    But I guess I got carried away, dreaming about
capabilities of the Foundation... Unfortunately, it’s too complicated
people led by
A. Savichev, so as not to experience even a shadow
doubts about the result. At least until
until the Foundation is
registered with its Articles of Association,
Board of Trustees, some
in real money. According to A. Savichev himself, the Foundation
should start working this summer, which
would not discredit the very idea of such
kind of social organization.   How
it is known that in the summer it is planned to visit St. Petersburg
hold a Spectrum festival. Exactly
this deadline is considered as the deadline
to get some results
Fonda.                                    
                                          
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