I can open a wiki page to maintain the list of consortium member I received. Let me know if it makes sense to you.
Stef On Jun 28, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > Dear Pharoers and Smalltalkers > > This mail is really important so read it carefully. Especially the last part > of the mail is important for the > immediate future: we need your support and input. Read section ***Support*** > at the end of this mail. > > Context > ======= > After taking into account feedback from companies and pharo users in > different occasions and > discussing with the INRIA lawyers and the team in charge of the > administrative aspect of the consoritum > here is the setup we finally want for the consortium. We will have two > separated entities: > - one french law 1901 association for individuals and > - one consortium for institutions (companies, research groups, > laboratories, universities...) managed by INRIA > > We hope that in the long run the consortium will be fully managed by the > association > but in the current bootstrap phase INRIA is a good solution. > > ============== > The Pharo Association > ============== > The goal of the association is to promote Pharo. It will have its own web > site. > > Individual Memberships (managed by the Pharo Association) > ---------------------- > There are two individual memberships > - Individual Pharo Association Member: Yearly fee 40 Euros > - Golden Individual Pharo Association Member: Yearly fee 99 > Euros > > You will get > a nice goody, > reduction access to conferences, > reduction for training and access to teaching material, > be part of the pharo groups on social networks, > be part of the pharoAssociation-individual-members > mailing-list, > get access and registered to the pharo association web site. > > Others (managed by the Pharo Association) > ---------------------- > The association will be able to issues bills so you will be able to buy > a Pharo distribution > when your organization cannot be a member, a sponsor or doing a > donation to the Pharo consortium. > > End of Pharo Association Description > > > > =========================== > The Pharo Consortium (managed by INRIA) > =========================== > The goal of the consortium is to structure and build an umbrella to foster > business around Pharo and to promote Pharo. > > A company, user group, research group, team or institution can be a > consortium member, not individual member. > > There are three levels of fees and corresponding benefits. You decide your > degree of support. > The annual fees are > - Bronze 1000 Euros > - Silver 2000 Euros > - Gold 4000 Euros > > Consortium members main advantages are > ---------------------------------------- > 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 points and items for the executive team. They will be > requested one month in > advance before the committee meeting. > > - get access to privileged core engineer time (to address pharo > core problems) > > - Bronze member gets > one day of engineering time > + is automatically a diamond sponsor. > > - Silver > + two days of engineering time > + one job description for job dashboard > + is automatically a diamond sponsor.. > > - Gold four > + 4 days of engineering time > + multiple job description for job > dashboard > + is automatically a diamond sponsor. > > - Training special prices and possibility to become pharo > trainer > - Pharo consortium member can also ask and pay for extra > support days at INRIA engineer prices (around 600 Euros) per day. > - Member can offer to their client access to the possibility to > pay for extra support days at INRIA engineer prices (around 600 Euros) per > day. > - The core team can provide contact with experts for certain > areas of development. > > Pharo Consortium Gouvernance: steering committee > ---------------------------------------- > The consortium will be managed as follows: There will be a steering > committee and an Executive Team. > > * A steering committee is composed of one representative of > each member (except individuals). > > * The chairman of this committee will be Inria > > * Steering Committee Role : > - The Steering Committee follows the execution of the > PHARO R&D Team > - It validates and gives input about the task list of > the Executive Team. > - It can propose members of the executive team. > - It prepares, organizes conferences, seminars or other > animations to promote PHARO and have new members > - It revises the annual fee > * Decisions taking: after consultation and collect of > representative member points of views, Inria takes the final decision. > > * The steering committee will communicate via a private > mailing-list. It may meet physical once a year. > > * An agenda to reach conclusion will be established by Inria on > proposals of the members (the members will be queried a month in advance). > > Technical Executive Committee (akaR&D task) > ---------------------------------------- > * The Executive Team is composed of members proposed by the > steering board and RMOD Team > * Its roles is to > * Study, analyze and validate external contributions > for PHARO > * Report to the steering committee > * Present a task list to the steering committee. > * Propose, schedule and implement tasks in conformance > with the tasks list. > * Coordinate the release Pharo and its VMs > > Pharo consortium Sponsoring > --------------------------- > Orthogonally to memberships, an entity can be a sponsor of the > consortium without being a pharo consortium member. > Pharo consortium are de factor platinium sponsor. Sponsors will > get their logos name exposed to the consortium web site. > There are two kinds of sponsors: > - normal 500 Euros > - diamond 1000 Euros > > Job board > --------- > Non consortium member companies will be able to pay a fee (1000 > Euros) to post job offers to the job board. > > End of Pharo Consortium Description > > > ===================== > *** Support and Answer needed*** > ===================== > > To be able to pay an engineer by the consortium, INRIA needs to make > projection, build budget, pay attention to visa > and other important administrative tasks. To deal with the risk that the > consortium may not collect enough to pay a full salary > we are considering to ask INRIA to help us financially. To do so we have to > give some concrete figures to > INRIA and motivate our request. In addition, our team (RMOD) on its own > budget will try to compensate by allocating extra resources > However, this will be only a one shot. In addition, some of our team members > have been approached by google to work on chrome and dart > Virtual Machines. So if we really get a future we should build it now. > > Many of you told us that they want to support the consortium, now we need to > know what would be amount of membership, sponsoring > you could give. So please read carefully this mail and send us a mail at > [email protected] with the same subject than this one. > We will collect the information and build a case to present to INRIA. > Thanks in advance for Pharo and for the future that we are building together. > > The RMOD team and the Pharo board
