Hi pharoers We want to stress something that may seem obvious for us but that can may be not for you and that people attending ESUG could discover live :) lucky them :) But you will be able to watch the video and get an idea soon. What is important is that it can explain a lot of our actions and future actions. Here is a list of statements that I tried to make short. - We do pharo because we want to create an ecosystem for companies and research/innovation. - We don't do pharo for fame and fans else we would do ruby or hard-rock. :) (ok probably ruby) - We want to build a powerful open-source community. - Every single node in the community is important. So yes you doing your little project in your corner you are important. Why? Because a community is a synergetic beast and we are all cool because the community is cool. So you are also important to us. For example if you want to give a lecture on pharo, we can help. if you want to do presentations, we can help, if you have problems/ideas let us know. - Often we do actions not because we want credit but just because somebody has to do it: seaside book, esug are to other examples of why we did pharo. Because we need a power rocking hyper cool beautifully designed system. (I know some of you think that I'm lousy and I use too much cool but this is what I mean) - We believe in strong elegant beautiful infrastructure: fix the stuff so that you can go faster to build the next one. We did that with Moose: offer to software engineering researchers a foundation to focus on problems versus rebuilding each time a clean source code meta model and importer. Infrastructure will give us the leverage to build the next generation. Stef and other pharoers