I think is a good idea to have a Board and public discussions. I'm doing some promotion work on areas as MicroISV (as I commented in Smalltalks 2010), and this happens mainly in USA (joelonsoftware/ycombinator/etc) and now I'm starting writing some articles to push a bit on Linux world, were I'm from years. Lot of tools and languages are established in Linux but I think we (the Smalltalkers) need to comment a lot more about our tools and environment and I'm trying to write some introductory articles to publish on Full Circle Magazine (http://fullcirclemagazine.org/). I already have the ok of the editor. Well, just my 2 cents. Cheers. 2011/2/3 Dmitri Zagidulin <dmitri@zagidulin.net>:
I would definitely be interested in helping with the 'outside communication and promotion' part. Especially in the documentation and tutorials department. I also bring in the North American perspective (I'm in Maine, USA, and am frequently in Boston and New York), and the non-academic professional developer perspective. So, I don't know if there's room on the board or what the process is, but I would definitely be interested in joining or helping out.
Dmitri Zagidulin http://smalltalkzen.wordpress.com
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:41 AM, laurent laffont <laurent.laffont@gmail.com> wrote:
That's great. IMHO, "outside communication and promotion" should be an important goal. Laurent. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
Hi guys
we are filling up papers with luc to get a fondation for pharo. The idea there is to have a minimal administrative board: a president that signs and a tresaurer that counts. We suggest to be me and luc because he is doing the work for the bank ;) This admin board should be kept small else at each changes we have to sign papers and go to the prefecture and ....
Now we want to have a real board and we would like to hear from you who we would like to have on the board. For me I would like to get people from industry:     - adrian     - johan
then some acad     - me     - marcus     - luc
But we want to hear from you about ideas. We do not want an election because we do not want to have election :) The goal of the board will be to think and organize ***public*** discussions around pharo visions and next steps + organization of bounty and money collecting actions + infrastructure (paying bills for servers if necessary) + collect licenses... Stef