It was, and AFAIU still is, a grassroots effort started by people who liked Fortran as a language, but decided that the state of package management and availabi

It was, and AFAIU still is, a grassroots effort started by people who liked Fortran as a language, but decided that the state of package management and availability of "standard" libraries was behind other languages, and decided to do something about other than whining in discussion forums. And that lack of an attractive website introducing the language to newcomers and pointing to the new tools like package managers and package repositories was a barrier to entry, hence the creation of the https://fortran-lang.org/en/ https://fortran-lang.org/en/ website.