Some updates

* The archive of the Sqf-Formation mailing-list are now available at
     - http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/sqf-formation/
     Please note that the new discussions started in 2005

* I will try to keep up to date the list of Supporters
     http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/squeakfoundation/supporters/ 
squeakofficialsupporters/

* I want to let you know that in two days we collected more than 800  
Euros. Thanks
and I want to tell you that this also put pressure on us to succeed  
and to be at the right level
of expectation. We will try to have a clear bookkeeping process.

* For the people that contacted us to participate we will sync to see  
how we can distribute all the
good stuff we want to do and not be swamped by that and have an open  
but working organization.

* We are also working on making the legal concerns available on the  
ESUG website and the squeakfoundation
website. BTW ESUG exist since 13 years and survived the Java wave and  
all the people leaving the boat,
and the people coming to the conference knows that we are trying to  
do the best we can to
have a cool Smalltalk community. We will announce some cool promotion  
ideas soon (as soon as we have time
for ESUG).

Stef



On 10 sept. 05, at 14:21, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> Hi all
>
> 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!
>
> Have a look at: http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/squeakfoundation
>
> 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/.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 :).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Stef, marcus, noury, and few others...
>
>
>