Ben wrote: >Now google say... "Umbrella organizations get more slots. > If an organization is acting as an umbrella for other projects, chances are >we'll allocate more students to you simply because there's a great deal of >different types of work to be done, and we're hoping our students will end >up with something that appeals to them among this wide offering." [1]
>The Pharo Consortium might conceivably be considered an umbrella organization, >if a reasonable amount of selected projects relate to applications built on >top of Pharo >and not "just" improvements in the Pharo release. e.g. SciSmalltalk, PhaROS, >Phratch. > I guess that is a balance to be determined later. New organizations get a low number of slots. Marginalizing other smalltalks is not in our best interest. I think it would be sad not to run as Esug this year. Running as Esug shows we can overcome last years trouble, and start healing the pain. I totally understand Stef doesn't want to be involved, considering the amount of accusations and abuse it has brought, not just last year. Stephan
