On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Johan Brichau wrote:
> This is a good effort. I have the letter ready for submission.
Thanks Johan!!!
>
> 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 ;-)
The idea is that we do not know. We are prospecting to see if this is worth the
pain (I believ it does but chekcing is always better).
I thought that the english ('subject to the conditions for membership') wanted
to say that depending on the condition
so may be I should change the letter to make this part clearer.
>
> 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>
>>
>>
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