28 Jun
2012
28 Jun
'12
7:43 p.m.
Hi Stef,
how do we subscribe to the consortium ?
Laurent Laffont
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:38 PM, stephane ducasse
<stephane.ducasse(a)free.fr>wrote;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
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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(a)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(a)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