This document discusses ways to get support for Pharo including: 1) Contributing to the community by answering questions, commenting on bugs, testing code. 2) Joining the Pharo Association as an individual for $40-99 annually or the Pharo Consortium as a company for $1038+. 3) Getting support through the Pharo Consortium which offers monthly meetings and engineering time based on membership level. 4) Using Pharo Pro for commercial support contracts and consulting services.

1. Supporting Pharo
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Getting Pharo Support
Marcus Denker / Inria RMoD
Norbert Hartl / PharoPro

2. Supporting Pharo

3. Contribute
• Answer Questions on Discord / Mailinglist
• Comment on Bugs on the issue Tracker
• Test and Review Pull Requests
• Help
fi
xing bugs

4. Pharo Association
• Main Target: Individual Users
• Membership is EUR 40 and EUR 99
• Sponsoring Member: EUR 500
• Student Membership is EUR 20
https://association.pharo.org

5. Pharo Association
• Cost of Domain Registration
• Hosting (e.g.
fi
les.pharo.org)
• Mailinglists
• PharoDays
• Projects in collaboration with the Consortium
https://association.pharo.org

6. Pharo Consortium
• Target: Companies and Academic Institutions
• Minimum: 1038 EUR
• Academic: Free
• Four level from Bronze to Platinum
https://consortium.pharo.org

7. Pharo Consortium
• 27 Companies
• 29 Academic Institutions

8. Members

9. Members

10. Actions
• Directly supports Pharo Development
• Two permanent engineers
• Additional Projects with externals
• Close collaboration with Association

11. Other Actions
• Lectures
• companies
• universities
• Conference participation

12. Supporting Pharo
• Get involved in the community
• Membership Pharo Association (Individual)
• Membership Pharo Consortium (Company / Institution)

13. Getting Pharo Support

14. Community
• Mailinglist
• Discord
• Report Problems on the Issue tracker
• Come to Pharo Days

15. Pharo Consortium
• Remote Meeting with the Consortium Engineers all three
Months
• Membership level includes Engineering Time
• 1 day (bronze) to 10 Days (Platinum)
• Individual Projects (see talk Thursday about Perm
Space, Project with LifeWare)

16. Pharo Pro
• What if a Company wants to buy industrial support
contract?
• Remove Pharo problems from your critical path

17. Pharo Pro Services
• Support contracts for Pharo
• Consulting
• existing open source libraries
• new (open source) libraries
• Connection to the Pharo community
http://pharopro.com

18. Pharo Pro
• Close collaboration with the consortium
• Pharo Pro is a Platinum Member
http://pharopro.com

19. Questions?
• Get involved in the community!
• Membership Pharo Association (Individual)
• Membership Pharo Consortium (Company / Institution)
• Pharo Pro: Commercial Support and Services