On 10 sept. 05, at 19:46, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:

> Hi Stef, Marcus, Noury (and a few others),
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> good initiative, keep on moving (from a fresh new Golden Supporter :)

Excellent!
I should check because I do not see it passing. I should ask noury to  
tell
me since he will pay attention for the supporter (we are preparing  
letters and also
a small goodie but everything take a lot of time).

Stef
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> "stéphane ducasse" <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote in message
> news:2E7097BC-A6DA-4200-A00C-838E4FC81148 at iam.unibe.ch...
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>> Hi all
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>> Since a year, we (marcus and me and some others) have been playing
>> with the
>> idea that Squeak deserves a foundation and after several tries, we
>> decided to doit!
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>> Have a look at: http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/squeakfoundation
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>> Now we are nearly ready for the prime time. We hope that you will  
>> like
>> it and support it. Read the actions: http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/
>> squeakfoundation/actions/ and the goals and principles: http://
>> smallwiki.unibe.ch/squeakfoundation/foundationgoalsandprinciples/.
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>> In a nutshell we want to make sure that we get an organization that
>> pushes the visibility of Squeak
>> and that enables Squeak to be a platform of development for all kinds
>> of applications (educations,
>> multimedia, web developments, research), but also support the
>> production of books, videos...
>> We want to make sure that Squeak continues to be maintained even if
>> we stop. We want to be able to
>> pay a cleaner a day a week to support the harvesting and bug fixing.
>> Squeak needs to have more users and
>> companies selling products with it, because the more we will be the
>> more we will be to fix and enhance
>> the system.
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>> Now this is not a private club,  if you want to REALLY help, you are
>> more then welcome,  we have a lot to do
>> CD, DVD, merchandising, website, projects... But pay attention that
>> we are looking for people not only talking :).
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>> Now if you like the idea but you do not have the time but trust us
>> for all the good job we did over the years
>> then support the foundation, read the http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/
>> squeakfoundation/supporters/ page.
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>> To speed up the bootstrap we asked ESUG to host it and also to
>> sponsor it. They accepted
>> and gave us some money to start (2000 Euros) and noury the ESUG
>> treasurer accepted to
>> have separate accounts and deal with the money issue.
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>> Stef, marcus, noury, and few others...
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