Re: [Ann] Lifeware, Schmidt Pro contracts for the consortium

> On May 20, 2019, at 8:03 AM, ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> The Pharo consortium is very excited and super happy to bring your attention to the following announce
> that was presented during Pharodays 2019: https://fr.slideshare.net/pharoproject/
>
> The consortium got two contracts to support financially one year of engineer to improve Pharo.
> The companies Lifeware and Schmidt Pro fund work on Pharo to improve Pharo. The total amount
> of the two contracts is around 190 K Euros.
> In addition the RMOD team got some resources from Inria.
> The net result is that in 2019 the consortium will have 3.5 engineers working full time on Pharo.
>
> - Esteban Lorenzano
> - Pablo Tesone
> - Cyril Ferlicot
> - Guillermo Polito
>
> It will boost Pharo. Note that the issues raised by Schmidt Pro and Lifeware
> and their impacts on the roadmap of Pharo 8 and Pharo 9 are presented in https://fr.slideshare.net/pharoproject/.
>
> What is key to notice is that the consortium is working because many contributing companies are sharing ressources.
> This is built a strong soil to grow Pharo and business around.
>
> On the behalf of Inria, the consortium and the community we would like to thank
> Lifeware and SchmidtPro for their strong support.
>
> Stef on the behalf of the Pharo consortium
>