Thanks miguel follow the process sign the letter and send it to me.
On Feb 16, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Miguel Cobá wrote: > > 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** >>> >> >> > > -- > Miguel Cobá > http://twitter.com/MiguelCobaMtz > http://miguel.leugim.com.mx > > > >
