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Here is the 2024 update:

Dear Pharo Association members, Pharoers and Smalltalkers from all over the world 

We are writing you to thank you again for your support of the Pharo Association. With your help, we are able to perform a lot of activities to increase the impact of Pharo, enlarge its community and have a better programming life for everyone. For the people who are not members of the association, we take the opportunity to tell you all the accomplishments of the association last year and invite you to participate in any of the forms our association provides.

We want to profit this time of the year to tell you the most important actions that the association has supported the last years.

• Infrastructure for Pharo: as an association, we support the maintenance of the infrastructure used by Pharo. We provided the funds for the hosting of Pharo services (website, file server, mailing lists) and domains. Most of the services that we daily use are supported by your help. Thanks for allowing the community to use the Pharo Launcher or getting an image from ZeroConf. 

• Conference Sponsoring: we all love to go to nice conferences and much more if there is Pharo-related content on it. This year as it is tradition we supported the ESUG 2024 conference. Having a place to interchange and to publish all the advances in Pharo is key to its development.

• Summer School: With the objective of extending the Pharo community,  in 2024, we sponsored a summer school at Split, Croatia about advanced object-oriented design with Pharo. Due to the nice reception and results, this year we are again sponsoring a summer school in February at Montpellier. 

• Pharo Music: Smalltalk has been always a language close to the arts, and Pharo is not an exception. This year, we heavily sponsored the development of Phausto, Coypu and CoypuIDE. Phausto is a library and API that allows to use the FAUST compiler and its libraries (Functional Audio Stream) inside Pharo. Coypu is a package with methods and classes for Pharo designed for programming music on-the-fly, and it has its IDE developed in Bloc. This tools has been presented in numerous technical and musical conferences, and in all of them they have generated a lot of attention and interest. We are much than happy with the results we are obtaining.

• Student Sponsoring: we sponsored the access of students using Pharo to Summer Schools and visits to labs. We sponsored also the food and drinks of small meetings where students can learn and play with Pharo. This sponsoring is particularly important because often the labs are not allowed to pay trips of students, limiting the access to international students. Because of that, we sponsored students from Argentina (2), Serbia, Madagascar (3), Chile, and Bolivia. Without your support we would not be able to plant Pharo seeds all over the world. Your help is base to increase the community and to help all the people interested in Pharo.

• Book Sponsoring: During last year, we have sponsored the write of 4 new books about Pharo. These books covers subjects for newcomers and experts, going from the style of code, testing and UI creation. All the books are available to the community (https://books.pharo.org/) and even you can get a physical copy. We consider that we need to provide the material to let all the people interested to grow in their Pharo experience.

We want to thank you again for your support as all the support we are getting are from our members. We remember you that you can renew or increase your subscription at https://association.pharo.org.

Your support is really important for us because it enables us to do actions that would be almost impossible to do. 

Finally we remember you that we are always open to listen your opinions and suggestions, and to receive requests for sponsoring or support at association@pharo.org. Sorry if you have got this mails from different channels. 

Thank you so much again, and we desired you and excellent new year!

Pharo Association

We organise one Pharo “Sprint” per month where we meet to work on boring issue tracker entries together.

Currently we organize a local Sprint in Lille, France. If you want to visit, please contact us in advance.

Remotely, you can join us on Discord.

Goals of the next sprints: Fix issues for Pharo 13

• 28.02.2025
• 28.03.2025
• 25.04.2025
• 23.05.2025  
• 27.06.2025
• 25.07.2025

In the past people organised local sprints at the same time. If you are interested to do that, please contact us.

The Videos of ESUG 2024 are now online:

• Main Track Here
  
• Show Us Your Projects: Here

Do not miss the opportunity to meet Pharo and its community! PharoDays is a unique event where you can meet other Pharoers, discover latest advances, and share your experience. Hand-ons sessions are there to help you getting started on advance topics. Follow the "Show us your project" sessions to get immersed in Pharo lively community.

https://days.pharo.org

The day before the PharoDays 2022, we organise a free, public Workshop about using Pharo in practice.

See https://days.pharo.org/workshop.html

Please note: Registration is Mandatory and places are limited.

We organise one Pharo “Sprint” per month were we meet to work on boring issue tracker entries together.

Goals of the next sprints:

• Fix issues for Pharo9
  

Remotely, you can join us on Discord. During the sprint, we will try to synchronize local and remote Pharo sprinters. In the past people organised local sprints at the same time (e.g. Santiago/Chile). See here for more infos: http://pharo.org/contribute-events

There will be an event on the association website for each sprint. The next dates are every month the last Friday of the month.

See here for all the events: https://association.pharo.org/events

We organise one Pharo “Sprint” per month were we meet to work on boring issue tracker entries together.

Goals of the next sprints:

• Fix issues for Pharo9
• Backport important fixes to Pharo8

Remotely, you can join us on Discord. During the sprint, we will try to synchronize local and remote Pharo sprinters. In the past people organised local sprints at the same time (e.g. Santiago/Chile). See here for more infos:http://pharo.org/contribute-events

There will be an event on the association website for each sprint. The next dates are every month the last Friday of the month.

For more details, have a look at the Events Page  

We organize Pharo Tech Talks every last Thursday of the month. They happen on Discord, often with a Demo on youtube.

Next Talks for 2020:

• January 23: Link
• Thursday 20: Link
• March 19: Link
• April 23: Link
• May 28: Link
• June 18: Link

Archive of past techtalks: https://pharo.org/TechTalk

We organise one Pharo “Sprint” per month were we meet to work on boring issue tracker entries together.

Goals of the next sprints:

• Fix issues for Pharo8
• Backport important fixes to Pharo7

Remotely, you can join us on Discord. During the sprint, we will try to synchronize local and remote Pharo sprinters. In the past people organised local sprints at the same time (e.g. Santiago/Chile). See here for more infos: http://pharo.org/contribute-events

There will be an event on the association website for each sprint. The next dates are every month the last Friday of the month.

For more details, have a look at the Events Page  

We organize Pharo Tech Talks every last Thursday of the month. They happen on Discord, often with a Demo on youtube.

Next Talks 2019:

• 20 June 2019: : Pharo TechTalk: TBA,  Link
• 18 July 2019: : Pharo TechTalk: TBA,  Link
• 19 Sept 2019: Pharo TechTalk: Spec and ,  Link
• 17 Oct 2019: Pharo TechTalk:, Headless VM Link
• 21 Nov 2019: Pharo TechTalk: TBA,  Link
• 19 Dec 2019: Pharo TechTalk: TBA,  Link

Archive of past techtalks: https://pharo.org/TechTalk