Hi Pharo supporters

First I would like thank you. And I would like to show you that your membership 
in the Pharo association is really 
helping Pharo. We are creating a precise report but the main message is the 
same. 
You concretely help Pharo. 

First,  we would like to really thank you for your support because as you will 
see it is important. Your contributions are making an impact. 

Until now, the association did not make visible how was spent the money from 
your membership. It's time to fix this.
        
In the first place, the support we got from last year enable the creation of 
monthly activities helping with the development of Pharo. The association is 
now the support for the following ones:
Sprint organisations: Every month sprints to correct Pharo bugs are organised. 
You can join remotely or organise one at your location
TechTalks: Every month a technical talk is been done to give visibility on 
Pharo process and Pharo projects and interact with the community to get feedback

Next, your association contributions are securing vital Pharo infrastructures. 
It pays:
The domains such as pharo.org.
The hosting files.pharo.org: This year we moved out of Inria infrastructure 
because we could not identify the cause of a huge network latency. It got 
resolved - it was a fiber which was in bad condition but not cut. This was 
fixed at the level of Renater national back-bone layer, but we decided to stay 
outside. We plan to migrate to a better service.
The wild apricot software which manages the association. It will enable us to 
do more with the association. (40$/month)
The newsletter via Mailchimp. This newsletter is a real success with more than 
2300 recipients . You get see the archive at 
https://us11.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=6f667565c2569234585a7be77&id=048680a940
 
<https://us11.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=6f667565c2569234585a7be77&id=048680a940>
 (30$/month)
The mailing-lists are managed with Mailname a professional service.

On another note, we would like to remember the advantages of being an 
association member:
Reduction for the PharoDays
Offer access to PharoCloud (which is currently under redesign)
20% Discount on the printed book Learning Object-Oriented Programming, Design 
with TDD in Pharo <http://books.pharo.org/learning-oop/>
Possibility to be listed as a Pharo consultant (Require gold membership)



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Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 
03 59 35 87 52
Assistant: Julie Jonas 
FAX 03 59 57 78 50
TEL 03 59 35 86 16
S. Ducasse - Inria
40, avenue Halley, 
Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza
Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650
France

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