With this post I would like to give a +1000 for ESUG to sponsor the Pharo Consortium and this is my reasoning: The past clearly shows us that ESUG does not favour one Smalltalk implementation over another, having helped projects across multiple flavours. It is also clear that anyone is welcome - and invited - to submit proposals to ESUG and they are always (from my understanding) reviewed fairly. My most important reasoning however is that it supports ESUG's main purpose in "promoting Smalltalk". Any boost in innovation, visibility of "anything" Smalltalk will end up being beneficial for the entire Smalltalk community. I have heard someone use the "a rising tide lifts all boats" idiom in this context, so if ESUG sponsoring the Pharo Consortium may result in rising the Smalltalk tide lifting all Smalltalk boats, I would say "go for it"! I reckon who on the ESUG board is and how they were/are elected has nothing to do with. In the same breath it would be nice to see commercial companies like Cincom, Gemstone, Instantiations support the Pharo Consortium for exactly the same reason. Disclaimer: ESUG also sponsors The World of Smalltalk (an initiative I started) by funding the world.st domain name, which again is intended to be a portal for anything Smalltalk. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ESUG-considers-sponsoring-the-Pharo-Consortium-tp46382... Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.