I think they are great ideas.  We need to find the means that will
provide the opportunity for anyone (that doesn't happen to be
independently wealthy) who has the skill and desire to work with Squeak
on full time basis to do so.  I would suggest that the very people that
would like to take a Squeak job funded by one of these organizations be
the ones that seek that funding.  Afterall, they would have the most
incentive to get the funding.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Serge Stinckwich
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:14 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Reality Check
> 
> 
> At Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:09:02 -0400,
> Stephen Pair wrote:
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I doubt that a squeak foundation will have 
> much success 
> > without some sort of financial support (at least not the kind of 
> > success that most people here would like to see).  And, with very 
> > little commercial activity in Squeak, that financial 
> support might be 
> > a long way off.  If only we could convince IBM to invest $1 billion 
> > into Squeak.
> 
> Maybe, we can try to setup a squeak consortium financed by 
> the new european research and technological program FP6
> (http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/index_en.html) that 
> will started in November 2002. In the FP6, there is two new 
> intruments called Network of Excellence
> (http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/pdf/ip_provisions_070502.pdf)
> for consortium, but maybe to much research-oriented and 
> Integrated Project 
> (http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/pdf>
/ip_provisions_070502.pdf).
> There is already some open-source projects supported by 
> Europe program like Agnula : http://www.agnula.org/, a Linux 
> audio distribution, so why not Squeak ?
> 
> With FP6 money, we can pay some developpers, students in our 
> universities, sustained some research work in order to 
> enhance specific aspects of Squeak, have regular meetings, 
> made some advertisements, ...
> 
> What do think about ?
> 
> -- 
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