I would say publish an environment like iPad/ Android totally out of Pharo and let there be a marketplace for all apps any developer in Pharo can create in 3 days - 90 days and publish it in a Pharo Marketplace that has a commercial interest attached or make it open source/ free thereof.

See: �http://picasaweb.google.com/skrishnamachari/PharoTabletIDE

Once you can grow a profit center out of this environment, all this popularity et als will flow


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Stefan Krecher <stefan.krecher@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi,

Am 11. M�rz 2012 12:08 schrieb St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>:
>> But let me dream:
>> If pharo was organized as a scrum-project and if i was the product
>> owner, i would suspend the current pharo development and instruct the
>> team to work the complete next sprint (e.g. 4 weeks) on an
>> OpenSource-Project for some general use.
>
> like the compiler, like integration server, like building VM, like creating the next generation UI.
> You see we are doing that. Now we only have one engineer and he is quite busy.
> All the rest of the team is not payed to develop Pharo but to teach, publish papers and ideas.

the things you mentioned are very usefull - no doubt.
But are these projects arguments for trying out pharo or for using it
on the next project for a customer?

regards,
Stefan