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Re: [Esug-list] **IMPORTANT** MUST READ: Pharo Association and Consortium

by Stéphane Ducasse

On Jul 1, 2012, at 3:11 PM, maarten.mostert(a)stakepoint.com wrote: > Stéphane, > > A french law 1901 association .. Does this mean that I'll can get a tax refund from my donation ? I do not think so because for that Pharo would have to be "one national cause" like fighting cancer :) > > @+Maarten, > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Stéphane Ducasse" <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> > Sent: Thursday, 28 June, 2012 14:19 > To: "An open mailing list to discuss any topics related to an open-source Smalltalk" <Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr>, pharo-consortium(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr, "A friendly place where any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr>, "ESUG Mailing list" <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org>, "Moose-related development" <moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch> > Subject: [Esug-list] **IMPORTANT** MUST READ: Pharo Association and Consortium > > Dear Pharoers and Smalltalkers > > This mail is really important so read it carefully. Especially the last part of the mail is important for the > immediate future: we need your support and input. Read section ***Support*** at the end of this mail. > > Context > ======= > After taking into account feedback from companies and pharo users in different occasions and > discussing with the INRIA lawyers and the team in charge of the administrative aspect of the consoritum > here is the setup we finally want for the consortium. We will have two separated entities: > - one french law 1901 association for individuals and > - one consortium for institutions (companies, research groups, laboratories, universities...) managed by INRIA > > We hope that in the long run the consortium will be fully managed by the association > but in the current bootstrap phase INRIA is a good solution. > > ============== > The Pharo Association > ============== > The goal of the association is to promote Pharo. It will have its own web site. > > Individual Memberships (managed by the Pharo Association) > ---------------------- > There are two individual memberships > - Individual Pharo Association Member: Yearly fee 40 Euros > - Golden Individual Pharo Association Member: Yearly fee 99 Euros > > You will get > a nice goody, > reduction access to conferences, > reduction for training and access to teaching material, > be part of the pharo groups on social networks, > be part of the pharoAssociation-individual-members mailing-list, > get access and registered to the pharo association web site. > > Others (managed by the Pharo Association) > ---------------------- > The association will be able to issues bills so you will be able to buy a Pharo distribution > when your organization cannot be a member, a sponsor or doing a donation to the Pharo consortium. > > End of Pharo Association Description > > > > =========================== > The Pharo Consortium (managed by INRIA) > =========================== > The goal of the consortium is to structure and build an umbrella to foster business around Pharo and to promote Pharo. > > A company, user group, research group, team or institution can be a consortium member, not individual member. > > There are three levels of fees and corresponding benefits. You decide your degree of support. > The annual fees are > - Bronze 1000 Euros > - Silver 2000 Euros > - Gold 4000 Euros > > Consortium members main advantages are > ---------------------------------------- > Non individual members of the consortium get the following advantages: > > - privileged access to the core development team via a specific mailing-list > pharo-core-team-for-members(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > - influence priorities of the next development. The member will be able to propose > agenda points and items for the executive team. They will be requested one month in > advance before the committee meeting. > > - get access to privileged core engineer time (to address pharo core problems) > > - Bronze member gets > one day of engineering time > + is automatically a diamond sponsor. > > - Silver > + two days of engineering time > + one job description for job dashboard > + is automatically a diamond sponsor.. > > - Gold four > + 4 days of engineering time > + multiple job description for job dashboard > + is automatically a diamond sponsor. > > - Training special prices and possibility to become pharo trainer > - Pharo consortium member can also ask and pay for extra support days at INRIA engineer prices (around 600 Euros) per day. > - Member can offer to their client access to the possibility to pay for extra support days at INRIA engineer prices (around 600 Euros) per day. > - The core team can provide contact with experts for certain areas of development. > > Pharo Consortium Gouvernance: steering committee > ---------------------------------------- > The consortium will be managed as follows: There will be a steering committee and an Executive Team. > > * A steering committee is composed of one representative of each member (except individuals). > > * The chairman of this committee will be Inria > > * Steering Committee Role : > - The Steering Committee follows the execution of the PHARO R&D Team > - It validates and gives input about the task list of the Executive Team. > - It can propose members of the executive team. > - It prepares, organizes conferences, seminars or other animations to promote PHARO and have new members > - It revises the annual fee > * Decisions taking: after consultation and collect of representative member points of views, Inria takes the final decision. > > * The steering committee will communicate via a private mailing-list. It may meet physical once a year. > > * An agenda to reach conclusion will be established by Inria on proposals of the members (the members will be queried a month in advance). > > Technical Executive Committee (akaR&D task) > ---------------------------------------- > * The Executive Team is composed of members proposed by the steering board and RMOD Team > * Its roles is to > * Study, analyze and validate external contributions for PHARO > * Report to the steering committee > * Present a task list to the steering committee. > * Propose, schedule and implement tasks in conformance with the tasks list. > * Coordinate the release Pharo and its VMs > > Pharo consortium Sponsoring > --------------------------- > Orthogonally to memberships, an entity can be a sponsor of the consortium without being a pharo consortium member. > Pharo consortium are de factor platinium sponsor. Sponsors will get their logos name exposed to the consortium web site. > There are two kinds of sponsors: > - normal 500 Euros > - diamond 1000 Euros > > Job board > --------- > Non consortium member companies will be able to pay a fee (1000 Euros) to post job offers to the job board. > > End of Pharo Consortium Description > > > ===================== > *** Support and Answer needed*** > ===================== > > To be able to pay an engineer by the consortium, INRIA needs to make projection, build budget, pay attention to visa > and other important administrative tasks. To deal with the risk that the consortium may not collect enough to pay a full salary > we are considering to ask INRIA to help us financially. To do so we have to give some concrete figures to > INRIA and motivate our request. In addition, our team (RMOD) on its own budget will try to compensate by allocating extra resources > However, this will be only a one shot. In addition, some of our team members have been approached by google to work on chrome and dart > Virtual Machines. So if we really get a future we should build it now. > > Many of you told us that they want to support the consortium, now we need to know what would be amount of membership, sponsoring > you could give. So please read carefully this mail and send us a mail at stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr with the same subject than this one. > We will collect the information and build a case to present to INRIA. > Thanks in advance for Pharo and for the future that we are building together. > > The RMOD team and the Pharo board > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

July 3, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] **IMPORTANT** MUST READ: Pharo Association and Consortium

by John O'Keefe

Stéphane - I will take a personal Association Gold membership when they are offered. John O'Keefe [|], CTO/Principal Smalltalk Architect, Instantiations Inc. Skype: john_okeefe2 Mobile: +1 919 417-3181 (Business hours USA Eastern Time zone (GMT -5)) john_okeefe(a)instantiations.com http://www.instantiations.com VA Smalltalk...Onward and Upward!

July 1, 2012

[ANN] Android bindings for GNU Smalltalk

by Paolo Bonzini

http://krecher.com/2012/06/android-binding-for-gnu-smalltalk-ready.html "Essentially it's no big thing - just a few lines of Smalltalk-code: i created a GNU Smalltalk star Package including the "Android" class that gives access to the full Android API via SL4A." Paolo

July 1, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-consortium] [Pharo-users] **IMPORTANT** MUST READ: Pharo Association and Consortium

by Alexandre Bergel

+1 Let's make this viral Alexandre On Jul 1, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: > Hi, > > I will become a personal golden member (99EUR/year), too. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > > On 30 Jun 2012, at 09:37, Marcus Denker wrote: > >> >> On Jun 28, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >>> >>> ===================== >>> *** Support and Answer needed*** >>> ===================== >>> >>> To be able to pay an engineer by the consortium, INRIA needs to make projection, build budget, pay attention to visa >>> and other important administrative tasks. To deal with the risk that the consortium may not collect enough to pay a full salary >>> we are considering to ask INRIA to help us financially. To do so we have to give some concrete figures to >>> INRIA and motivate our request. In addition, our team (RMOD) on its own budget will try to compensate by allocating extra resources >>> However, this will be only a one shot. In addition, some of our team members have been approached by google to work on chrome and dart >>> Virtual Machines. So if we really get a future we should build it now. >>> >> >> I will be a personal golden member (99EUR/year) >> >> And with Norbert and Christian, we decided that http://2denker.de (2Denker GmbH) will be a Silver Member of the consortium. >> >> Marcus >> >> -- >> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list >> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "In a world where everything is moving ever faster, > one might have better chances to win by moving slower." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-consortium mailing list > Pharo-consortium(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-consortium > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

July 1, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] **IMPORTANT** MUST READ: Pharo Association and Consortium

by Tudor Girba

Hi, I will become a personal golden member (99EUR/year), too. Cheers, Doru On 30 Jun 2012, at 09:37, Marcus Denker wrote: > > On Jun 28, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >> >> ===================== >> *** Support and Answer needed*** >> ===================== >> >> To be able to pay an engineer by the consortium, INRIA needs to make projection, build budget, pay attention to visa >> and other important administrative tasks. To deal with the risk that the consortium may not collect enough to pay a full salary >> we are considering to ask INRIA to help us financially. To do so we have to give some concrete figures to >> INRIA and motivate our request. In addition, our team (RMOD) on its own budget will try to compensate by allocating extra resources >> However, this will be only a one shot. In addition, some of our team members have been approached by google to work on chrome and dart >> Virtual Machines. So if we really get a future we should build it now. >> > > I will be a personal golden member (99EUR/year) > > And with Norbert and Christian, we decided that http://2denker.de (2Denker GmbH) will be a Silver Member of the consortium. > > Marcus > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -- www.tudorgirba.com "In a world where everything is moving ever faster, one might have better chances to win by moving slower."

July 1, 2012