Hi All,
thank you Stef for this piece of information.
I will subscribe as individual member.
Let's say, you're doing a good job, I enjoy a lot using Pharo, that
let's me permit do/use funny and usefull things, teaching students, make
some research software prototypes, etc.
I have to say I would probably not succeed in convincing my university
staff to subscribe to the consortium. I personnaly vote for that, I will
try and will do my best but I'am not optimistic :-(
I understand that the fees are intended for enterprises or organizations
that aim to make business arround and/or with Pharo. I and my lab are
not in such a perspective. Maybe I would succeed in convincing IAE
director for some hundred euros for supporting your work...not for 1000
or more. Nevertheless, I will try.
All the best,
Herve
On 28/06/12 14:19, Stéphane 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
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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.
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The Pharo Association
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The goal of the association is to promote Pharo. It will have its own web site.
Individual Memberships (managed by the Pharo Association)
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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
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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-memb...@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
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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
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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
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*** 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.duca...@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
