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Re: Call for Pharo Support **important**

Posted by Stéphane Ducasse on Feb 16, 2011; 9:53am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Call-for-Pharo-Support-important-tp3306729p3308483.html


On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Johan Brichau wrote:

> This is a good effort. I have the letter ready for submission.

Thanks Johan!!!
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> May I ask what the 'conditions for membership' are likely to be? By signing the letter, we acknowledge our intent to join the consortium 'subject to the conditions for membership'. I would at least like to know what these are ;-)

The idea is that we do not know. We are prospecting to see if this is worth the pain (I believ it does but chekcing is always better).
I thought that the english ('subject to the conditions for membership') wanted to say that depending on the condition
so may be I should change the letter to make this part clearer.




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> Johan
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> On 15 Feb 2011, at 15:49, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
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>> BTW, the call is also online at http://pharo-project.org/community/consortium
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>> Adrian
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>> On Feb 15, 2011, at 14:02 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
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>>> Please distribute this message around
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>>> Dear Pharoers
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>>> We are pursuing an effort to bring Pharo to the next level: we will set up a consortium of pharo users and industrial partners. Our goal is to build a legal infrastructure that will be able to sustain the development of Pharo and improve its future. As an example, we would like to be able to collect funds (ways as to be determined - we foresee a membership model or moral license) to pay engineering tasks to be performed such as improving the virtual machine, network libraries, better JIT support. To make it short we would like to give a chance to our community to grow and structure itself so that Pharo can get stronger and that risk (truck factor) gets minimized.
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>>> We are contacting you to know if your company/research group would be interested to support such effort. Showing such interest is strategically important for us and INRIA which could also support such effort. Attached is the letter of support that we will collect once signed and scanned ( [hidden email] / faxed at: 00 33 (0)3 59 57 78 50)
>>>
>>> Thanks for your support
>>>
>>> The Pharo Board
>>>
>>> M. Denker, S. Ducasse, and  A. Lienhard
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>>>
>>> <Pharo-LetterOfSupport-EN.doc>
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