Dear Pharo Association members, Pharoers and Smalltalkers from all over
the world
We are writing you to thank you again for your support of the Pharo
Association. With your help, we are able to perform a lot of activities to
increase the impact of Pharo, enlarge its community and have a better
programming life for everyone. For the people who are not members of the
association, we take the opportunity to tell you all the accomplishments of
the association last year and invite you to participate in any of the forms
our association provides.
We want to profit this time of the year to tell you the most important
actions that the association has supported the last years.
*Infrastructure for Pharo: *as an association, we support the
maintenance of the infrastructure used by Pharo. We provided the funds for
the hosting of Pharo services (website, file server, mailing lists) and
domains. Most of the services that we daily use are supported by your help.
Thanks for allowing the community to use the Pharo Launcher or getting an
image from ZeroConf.
Conference Sponsoring: we all love to go to nice conferences and much
more if there is Pharo-related content on it. This year as it is tradition
we supported the *ESUG 2024 *conference. Having a place to interchange
and to publish all the advances in Pharo is key to its development.
*Summer School: *With the objective of extending the Pharo community,
in 2024, we sponsored a summer school at Split, Croatia about advanced
object-oriented design with Pharo. Due to the nice reception and results,
this year we are again sponsoring a summer school in February at
Montpellier.
*Pharo Music: *Smalltalk has been always a language close to the arts,
and Pharo is not an exception. This year, we heavily sponsored the
development of Phausto, Coypu and CoypuIDE. Phausto
https://github.com/lucretiomsp/phausto is a library and API that
allows to use the FAUST compiler and its libraries (Functional Audio
Stream) inside Pharo. Coypu https://github.com/lucretiomsp/Coypu is
a package with methods and classes for Pharo designed for programming music
on-the-fly, and it has its IDE
https://github.com/pharo-graphics/CoypuIDE developed in Bloc. This
tools has been presented in numerous technical and musical conferences, and
in all of them they have generated a lot of attention and interest. We are
much than happy with the results we are obtaining.
Student Sponsoring: we sponsored the access of students using Pharo to
Summer Schools and visits to labs. We sponsored also the food and drinks of
small meetings where students can learn and play with Pharo. This
sponsoring is particularly important because often the labs are not allowed
to pay trips of students, limiting the access to international students.
Because of that, we sponsored students from Argentina (2), Serbia,
Madagascar (3), Chile, and Bolivia. Without your support we would not be
able to plant Pharo seeds all over the world. Your help is base to increase
the community and to help all the people interested in Pharo.
*Book Sponsoring: *During last year, we have sponsored the write of 4
new books about Pharo. These books covers subjects for newcomers and
experts, going from the style of code, testing and UI creation. All the
books are available to the community (https://books.pharo.org/
https://books.pharo.org/) and even you can get a physical copy. We
consider that we need to provide the material to let all the people
interested to grow in their Pharo experience.
We want to thank you again for your support as all the support we are
getting are from our members. We remember you that you can renew or
increase your subscription at https://association.pharo.org
https://association.pharo.org/.
Your support is really important for us because it enables us to do actions
that would be almost impossible to do.
Finally we remember you that we are always open to listen your opinions and
suggestions, and to receive requests for sponsoring or support at
association@pharo.org
association@pharo.org. Sorry if you have got this mails from different
channels.
Thank you so much again, and we desired you and excellent new year!
Pharo Association