Suggestion : it seems like a lot of the contribution efforts are coming from Europe. Perhaps having a (at least one) "North American point of view" on the board would help Pharo get more attention & success on this side of the world... For instance, it's a shame that Pharo doesn't get more academic presence in North America as compared to it's academic success in Europe. I don't know what causes that... But then, one could argue that I'm not 100% North American since I'm from Quebec and was born with that "European side"... ;) Keep up the good work guy! Bravo à vous messieurs! ----------------- Benoit St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero. (Albert Einstein) ________________________________ From: Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> To: "Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Development" <Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 5:17:18 AM Subject: [Pharo-project] Pharo fondation: administration and real people 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