I would say publish an environment like iPad/ Android totally out of Pharo and let there be a marketplace for all apps any developer in Pharo can create in 3 days - 90 days and publish it in a Pharo Marketplace that has a commercial interest attached or make it open source/ free thereof.
See: http://picasaweb.google.com/skrishnamachari/PharoTabletIDE Once you can grow a profit center out of this environment, all this popularity et als will flow On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Stefan Krecher < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 11. März 2012 12:08 schrieb Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected] > >: > >> But let me dream: > >> If pharo was organized as a scrum-project and if i was the product > >> owner, i would suspend the current pharo development and instruct the > >> team to work the complete next sprint (e.g. 4 weeks) on an > >> OpenSource-Project for some general use. > > > > like the compiler, like integration server, like building VM, like > creating the next generation UI. > > You see we are doing that. Now we only have one engineer and he is quite > busy. > > All the rest of the team is not payed to develop Pharo but to teach, > publish papers and ideas. > > the things you mentioned are very usefull - no doubt. > But are these projects arguments for trying out pharo or for using it > on the next project for a customer? > > regards, > Stefan > >
