This is a good effort. I have the letter ready for submission. May I ask what the 'conditions for membership' are likely to be? By signing the letter, we acknowledge our intent to join the consortium 'subject to the conditions for membership'. I would at least like to know what these are ;-)
Johan On 15 Feb 2011, at 15:49, Adrian Lienhard wrote: > BTW, the call is also online at http://pharo-project.org/community/consortium > > Adrian > > On Feb 15, 2011, at 14:02 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> Please distribute this message around >> >> >> Dear Pharoers >> >> We are pursuing an effort to bring Pharo to the next level: we will set up a >> consortium of pharo users and industrial partners. Our goal is to build a >> legal infrastructure that will be able to sustain the development of Pharo >> and improve its future. As an example, we would like to be able to collect >> funds (ways as to be determined - we foresee a membership model or moral >> license) to pay engineering tasks to be performed such as improving the >> virtual machine, network libraries, better JIT support. To make it short we >> would like to give a chance to our community to grow and structure itself so >> that Pharo can get stronger and that risk (truck factor) gets minimized. >> >> We are contacting you to know if your company/research group would be >> interested to support such effort. Showing such interest is strategically >> important for us and INRIA which could also support such effort. Attached is >> the letter of support that we will collect once signed and scanned ( >> [email protected] / faxed at: 00 33 (0)3 59 57 78 50) >> >> Thanks for your support >> >> The Pharo Board >> >> M. Denker, S. Ducasse, and A. Lienhard >> >> >> <Pharo-LetterOfSupport-EN.doc> > >
