Laurent Laffont

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:38 PM, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@free.fr> wrote:

I can open a wiki page to maintain the list of consortium member I received.
Let me know if it makes sense to you.

Stef

On Jun 28, 2012, at 2:19 PM, St��phane Ducasse wrote:

> 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@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@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