Excellent news! On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hello everybody > > We got a final discussion with INRIA representatives and we will now set up > a consortium for pharo. > INRIA will support the consortium by funding on advanced engineer for a > year (may be two if the > consortium work well). So this is quite good around 55Keuros on consortium. > > There some strings attached: We will not be able to pay remote development > since this is regulated under the public market french laws > but we will be able to hire people (on french rate if they work in France). > We will have to see the legal period to spent the money. > > The general idea is to see how the consortium evolves: ideally we would > like to see if we can get it outside inria within a five years > period. > > Now what we plan to do: > - We would like to make the list of companies that sign the > agreement letter public. > Because this is important that other companies joins the consortium. > > - We will offer a free participation to any individual. > > - We are wondering if we could have a academic fee for the > institution that want it: > we have to discuss the fee. Any suggestions would be good: I was > thinking that 500 Euros would be good for rich countries > and 200 for the other ones. Now tell us. > > - We could also have way to pay a license or a way to give money to > the consortium. > > Now the complex part: > - we would like to collect money from companies and again we will > need your help > to understand what is the correct model. > We are thinking: > single person company: starting at 300 Euros > "small company": starting at 2500 Euros > large companies: starting at 5000 Euros. > > We would like to keep the model really simple and transparent. > > Now our goal is to be able to pay an engineer like igor full time because > there is so much to do. > But each day we get closer to what we want. > > Stef and Marcus. > > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
