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philippeback

What we have with our community: near indestructible

I was reflecting on the PR efforts and the scale and nature of our community.

There is one single thing that is our core: we are a bunch of individuals dedicated to Pharo and we deeply like (should I say "love"?) it.

That very fact that we are committed to investing in understanding it and making it better, and that, no matter what, makes the community pretty much indestructible.

We do not care about fame, we care about something else. Solid, flexible, nimble, ... I don't know.

That's a case of QWAN indeed. But Pharo has it.

I came on board with 1.3.

The progress has been massive. Pharo 4 is going to be a hell of a great piece of software. And things are accelerating.

I am proud to be part of the community. I've my moments of doubt. But then there is an inner voice saying: "come on, it can be made to work". And it is true as we have full control on the tool.

Just wanted to share.

Peace.

Phil

kilon.alios

Re: What we have with our community: near indestructible

I am very happy with Pharo and of course I love it.

I love Pharo because it is very good, and its very good because people have worked hard to improve it. New libraries, new bug fixes, new tools , even pharo is small its actually quite hard to follow its evolution because it surprisingly active. Another positive factor is that the community is really open to contributions and new ideas, it may sound like implied for an open source project but is not always the case.

I feel sad at time because my lack of knowledge holds me back from contributing more, learning is hard because there is not tons of documentation like other languages so there a lot that one have to figure out by himself. But I dont mind the hard work , its fun.

I have figured out sockets, regex, Spec and even played with the Dark theme this past year. Now I try to figure out petitparser and how to parse python types to pharo objects.

I want to help newcomers to love pharo with updated documentation and new tools to simplify workflow. I contributed to the new Pharo By example by porting 5 chapters to Pharo 3 and also created almost 4 hours of Pharo video tutorials. I move slowly but I am moving :)

My goal for 2015 is also to start documenting Morphic.

Pharo is my fun hour ;)

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:03 PM, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I was reflecting on the PR efforts and the scale and nature of our community.

There is one single thing that is our core: we are a bunch of individuals dedicated to Pharo and we deeply like (should I say "love"?) it.

That very fact that we are committed to investing in understanding it and making it better, and that, no matter what, makes the community pretty much indestructible.

We do not care about fame, we care about something else. Solid, flexible, nimble, ... I don't know.

That's a case of QWAN indeed. But Pharo has it.

I came on board with 1.3.
The progress has been massive. Pharo 4 is going to be a hell of a great piece of software. And things are accelerating.

I am proud to be part of the community. I've my moments of doubt. But then there is an inner voice saying: "come on, it can be made to work". And it is true as we have full control on the tool.

Just wanted to share.

Peace.

Phil

nacho

Re: What we have with our community: near indestructible

In reply to this post by philippeback

Great!! Great!! Kilon,
Please let me help you, at least reading the drafts or whatever I can be usefull to.
I'm eager to learn morphic!!!
cheers
Nacho

Nacho Smalltalker apprentice. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

kilon.alios

Re: What we have with our community: near indestructible

Actually I could add the book to github group for Pharo documentation so everyone can contribute as long as he is the member of the group which already contains the source for the new PBE and Pharo for the Enterprise and all other books.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:41 PM, nacho <[hidden email]> wrote:

Great!! Great!! Kilon,
Please let me help you, at least reading the drafts or whatever I can be
usefull to.
I'm eager to learn morphic!!!
cheers
Nacho

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Tudor Girba-2

Re: What we have with our community: near indestructible

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Thanks for these words, Phil.

Doru

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:03 PM, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I was reflecting on the PR efforts and the scale and nature of our community.

There is one single thing that is our core: we are a bunch of individuals dedicated to Pharo and we deeply like (should I say "love"?) it.

That very fact that we are committed to investing in understanding it and making it better, and that, no matter what, makes the community pretty much indestructible.

We do not care about fame, we care about something else. Solid, flexible, nimble, ... I don't know.

That's a case of QWAN indeed. But Pharo has it.

I came on board with 1.3.
The progress has been massive. Pharo 4 is going to be a hell of a great piece of software. And things are accelerating.

I am proud to be part of the community. I've my moments of doubt. But then there is an inner voice saying: "come on, it can be made to work". And it is true as we have full control on the tool.

Just wanted to share.

Peace.

Phil

www.tudorgirba.com

"Every thing has its own flow"

stepharo

Re: What we have with our community: near indestructible

In reply to this post by philippeback

Thanks Phil for these great words.
I can tell you that sometimes we are overwhelmed by the size of our
tasks and the fact that if people would
put all the energy together we would obtain something magic and great.

Now when you want to on top of a large mountain looking at the pick does
not help to get courage
what is better is to look at your feet and one by one follow the path.
This is what I'm doing one little task
at a time but everyday.

Stef

PS: I can tell you stories if you pay me a beer at Pharo Days :)

Le 19/1/15 19:03, [hidden email] a écrit :

> I was reflecting on the PR efforts and the scale and nature of our
> community.
>
> There is one single thing that is our core: we are a bunch of
> individuals dedicated to Pharo and we deeply like (should I say
> "love"?) it.
>
> That very fact that we are committed to investing in understanding it
> and making it better, and that, no matter what, makes the community
> pretty much indestructible.
>
> We do not care about fame, we care about something else. Solid,
> flexible, nimble, ... I don't know.
>
> That's a case of QWAN indeed. But Pharo has it.
>
> I came on board with 1.3.
> The progress has been massive. Pharo 4 is going to be a hell of a
> great piece of software. And things are accelerating.
>
> I am proud to be part of the community. I've my moments of doubt. But
> then there is an inner voice saying: "come on, it can be made to
> work". And it is true as we have full control on the tool.
>
> Just wanted to share.
>
> Peace.
>
> Phil

stepharo

Re: What we have with our community: near indestructible

In reply to this post by kilon.alios

One step at a time. Your videos are good! keep pushing.
We learned slowly the system too....

Stef

Le 19/1/15 19:16, kilon alios a écrit :

I am very happy with Pharo and of course I love it.

I love Pharo because it is very good, and its very good because people have worked hard to improve it. New libraries, new bug fixes, new tools , even pharo is small its actually quite hard to follow its evolution because it surprisingly active. Another positive factor is that the community is really open to contributions and new ideas, it may sound like implied for an open source project but is not always the case.

I feel sad at time because my lack of knowledge holds me back from contributing more, learning is hard because there is not tons of documentation like other languages so there a lot that one have to figure out by himself. But I dont mind the hard work , its fun.

I have figured out sockets, regex, Spec and even played with the Dark theme this past year. Now I try to figure out petitparser and how to parse python types to pharo objects.

I want to help newcomers to love pharo with updated documentation and new tools to simplify workflow. I contributed to the new Pharo By example by porting 5 chapters to Pharo 3 and also created almost 4 hours of Pharo video tutorials. I move slowly but I am moving :)

My goal for 2015 is also to start documenting Morphic.

Pharo is my fun hour ;)

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:03 PM, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I was reflecting on the PR efforts and the scale and nature of our community.

There is one single thing that is our core: we are a bunch of individuals dedicated to Pharo and we deeply like (should I say "love"?) it.

That very fact that we are committed to investing in understanding it and making it better, and that, no matter what, makes the community pretty much indestructible.

We do not care about fame, we care about something else. Solid, flexible, nimble, ... I don't know.

That's a case of QWAN indeed. But Pharo has it.

I came on board with 1.3.

The progress has been massive. Pharo 4 is going to be a hell of a great piece of software. And things are accelerating.

I am proud to be part of the community. I've my moments of doubt. But then there is an inner voice saying: "come on, it can be made to work". And it is true as we have full control on the tool.

Just wanted to share.

Peace.

Phil