Ok, I understand the goal. Count me in. El mié, 16-02-2011 a las 13:52 +0100, Stéphane Ducasse escribió: > On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > > > Stef, > > > > The revised language is much improved. > > tx > > > I too am curious about what you have in mind on the conditions. > > We do not know. :) just fuzzy ideas. > We will decide with the community. Because the point is that this is not our > stuff but a tool that should serve the community. > We were thinking > - individual memberships > - company memberships > - institution memberships > or/and a moral license so that you can buy pharo and a guy like igor/esteban > can get pay to improve the infrastructure. > or a bounty (but a moral license is good since it does not bind the task). > > > > Are you looking for support from institutions or individuals? I assume > > both, but the thresholds would be different for UF than for me by myself. > > Yes both. This would be excellent. > > Recently I was asking myself three essential questions beside having a > market: ok we have a client so what > - how do you control quality/process? > - how do you control that your runtime engine is ok/safe/longlasting > (else better take java vms there are plenty) > - how do you reduce risk like truck factor in your community. > > Our main point is how can we minimize risk: I'm thinking to participate to a > startup around a pharo software and here is a simple > simple scenario: imagine that eliot gets hired by XXAS to do javascript/ruby > whatever and andreas (which does not reply to my mails > because I'm probably too insignificant) goes waco and that ian only shows up > every three years instead of every year. > do you think that it is wise for companies to invest in an open-source > smalltalk? > I would not. Now if we have a consortium, a build process, a quality process > and one or two guys payed by the community > to improve continously the system more than we can. Then this is a message I > can understand as an investor. > > Since we want to make sure that you all can do business we want to reduce > risk and provide a good case for process, quality and the > rest. > > > Stef > > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: [email protected] > > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse > > [[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:00 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Call for Pharo Support **important** > > > >
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