Stéphane,
This looks really great, we should move forward with this now that there is
this positive momentum.
Here are some remarks:
- The individual levels, 40 and 99 seem right, are they yearly too ?
- I would give the individual levels more attractive names:
- Individual (Pharo Consortium) Member [ which would include students ]
- Professional (Individual) (Pharo Consortium) Member
- The bronze, silver, gold levels (1000, 2000 & 4000 yearly) without reference
to company/organization size are great. I would not put in a separate line for
institutions. Companies, organizations, institutions, research labs and
universities should all be able to choose one of the 3 levels, depending on how
important Pharo is for them or on how large their use of Pharo is. A small
organization could be a gold member if they live or die with Pharo, a
multinational could be a bronze member if they only have a small team using
Pharo occasionally.
- The goodies/extras at the different levels seem about right.
- The license concept has a wrong, even dangerous name, maybe we could call it
End User Support Contract ?
- The general day price of 800 sounds a bit high, 600 (75/h) seems a bit more
acceptable (but even that is high in an international contest).
- The price for the job offering also seems quite high, it is a small community.
- Since we are talking about yearly subscriptions, we'll have to track
start/stop intervals carefully since not every subscription will start/stop at
the same time. It will be a challenge to properly represent this on the website.
Sven
On 14 Jun 2012, at 22:50, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> Hi cameron
>
> right now there is no simple way to give money to pharo but we are working on
> it. What is the amount that you have in mind.
> here is a sketch about what we are thinking after I gathered the ideas people
> mentioned during the pharo conference.
>
>
>
>
>
> Individus managed via the association
> =================
> - Supporter 40 Euros + cup/goody
> reduction at conference
>
> - Ambassador Supporter 99 Euros
> reduction at conferences + cup
>
> - Donation
>
> - Training sessions cheaper
>
> - Conference reduction
>
> managed by INRIA
> =========
>
> A company or an institution can be a consortium member:
>
> The annual fees are
> - Bronze 1000 Euros
> - Silver 2000 Euros
> - Gold 4000 Euros
>
> Institutions 1000 Euros
>
> Main advantages for members.
> ==========================
> Non individual members of the consortium get the following advantages:
> - privileged access to the core development team via a specific
> mailing-list
> [email protected]
>
> - influence priorities of the next development. The member will be able
> to propose
> agenda point and items for the core team. They will be requested one
> month in
> advance before the annual committee meeting.
>
> - get access to privileged support
>
> - Bronze gets one day of support and platinum sponsor status.
>
> - Silver two days of support + one job description for job
> dashboard and platinum sponsor status.
>
> - Gold four days of support + 3 job description for job
> dashboard and platinum sponsor status.
>
> - Training special prices and possibility to become pharo trainer
> - Member can advertise themselves on the consortium web site
> - Member can also ask and pay for extra support days at 1000 Euros per
> day.
> - The consortium can provide access experts for certain tasks.
>
> Sponsoring
> =============
> normal 500 Euros
> platinium 1000 Euros
> - Sponsor will get their logos name exposed to the consortium web site.
> (the idea is that small companies can pay something)
>
>
> License 500 Euros
> =============
> - via a member a non member company can also ask and
> **pay** for extra support days at 800 Euros per day.
> - via a member a non member company can also get
> privileged access to core dev via a mailing-list.
> (the idea there is to make it like an insurance or a way to
> people to donate)
>
> Job offers dashboard
> =============
> External entities can post job offers to the consortium job offers for
> 1000 Euros for one job
> 2000 Euros for an undefined number
>
>
> Gouvernance: steering committee
>
> • A steering committee is composed of one representative of each member
> (except individuals)
>
> • The chairman of this committee will be Inria
>
> • Agenda : will be established by Inria on proposals of the members
> (the members will be queried a month in advance)
>
> • Meeting : at least once every year
>
> • Role :
> -Follow the execution of the PHARO R&D Team
> -Validate and give input about the task list
> -Identify members of the executing commitee
> -Prepare, organize conferences, seminars or other animations to
> promote PHARO and have new members
> -Revise the annual fee
> • Decisions making : after consultation and collect of representative
> member points of views, Inria takes the final decision.
>
>
> Technical Executing Committee (akaR&D task)
> •Members proposed by the steering board and RMOD Team
> •Study, analyse and validate external contributions for PHARO
> •Report to the steering commitee
> •Propose, schedule and implement tasks in conformance with the tasks
> list presented and approved the steering
> •Coordinate the release Pharo and its VMs
>
>
> Stef
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 14, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Cameron Sanders wrote:
>
>> I am under the impression that I can donate money to the Pharo group through
>> gforge.inria.fr. Is it possible to donate with a credit card right through
>> their website? If so, can you please share the link to that page? [My tired
>> eyes are not seeing it today and my searches are failing too.] Thanks in
>> advance.
>>
>> -Cam
>
>
