both this is a user and industrial consortium. may be I'm a dreamer but I would like something open to the community in general.
Stef On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:11 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: > Just a question: are you interested only in companies/groups or also > individuals? > > Cheers, > Doru > > > On 16 Feb 2011, at 16:38, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> Dear Pharoers >> >> We are pursuing an effort to bring Pharo to the next level: we will set up a >> consortium of pharo users and industrial partners. Our goal is to build a >> legal infrastructure that will be able to sustain the development of Pharo >> and improve its future. As an example, we would like to be able to collect >> funds (ways as to be determined - we foresee a membership model or moral >> license) to pay engineering tasks to be performed such as improving the >> virtual machine, network libraries, better JIT support. To make it short we >> would like to give a chance to our community to grow and structure itself so >> that Pharo can get stronger and that risk (truck factor) gets minimized. >> >> We are contacting you to know if your company/research group would be >> interested to support such effort. Showing such interest is strategically >> important for us and INRIA which could also support such effort. Attached is >> the letter of support that we will collect once signed and scanned ( >> stephane.duca...@inria.fr / faxed at: 00 33 (0)3 59 57 78 50) >> >> Thanks for your support >> >> The Pharo Board >> >> M. Denker, S. Ducasse, and A. Lienhard >> >> <Pharo-LetterOfSupport-EN-V2.doc> > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Presenting is storytelling." > >
