>
> Laurent Laffont
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:38 PM, stephane ducasse <
stephane.ducasse@free.fr> wrote:
> 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
> >
pharo-core-team-for-members@lists.gforge.inria.fr
> >
> > - 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
stephane.ducasse@inria.fr 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
>
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