I am very happy with Pharo and of course I love it.��

I love Pharo because it is very good, and its very good because people have worked hard to improve it. New libraries, new bug fixes, new tools , even pharo is small its actually quite hard to follow its evolution because it surprisingly ��active. Another positive factor is that the community is really open to contributions and new ideas, it may sound like implied for an open source project but is not always the case.��

I feel sad at time because my lack of knowledge holds me back from contributing more, learning is hard because there is not tons of documentation like other languages so there a lot that one have to figure out by himself. But I dont mind the hard work , its fun.��

I have figured out sockets, regex, Spec and even played with the Dark theme this past year. Now I try to figure out petitparser and how to parse python types to pharo objects.��

I want to help newcomers to love pharo with updated documentation and new tools to simplify workflow. I contributed to the new Pharo By example by porting 5 chapters to Pharo 3 and also created almost 4 hours of Pharo video tutorials.�� I move slowly but I am moving :)��

My goal for 2015 is also to start documenting Morphic.

Pharo is my fun hour ;)��

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:03 PM, phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be> wrote:
I was reflecting on the PR efforts and the scale and nature of our community.

There is one single thing that is our core: we are a bunch of individuals dedicated to Pharo and we deeply like (should I say "love"?) it.

That very fact that we are committed to investing in understanding it and making it better, and that, no matter what, makes the community pretty much indestructible.

We do not care about fame, we care about something else. Solid, flexible, nimble, ... I don't know.

That's a case of QWAN indeed. But Pharo has it.

I came on board with 1.3.
The progress has been massive. Pharo 4 is going to be a hell of a great piece of software. And things are accelerating.

I am proud to be part of the community. I've my moments of doubt. But then there is an inner voice saying: "come on, it can be made to work". And it is true as we have full control on the tool.

Just wanted to share.

Peace.

Phil