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 � vous messieurs!
 
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From: St�phane 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