> On 7 Feb 2018, at 08:29, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > As you know, we have a monthly Pharo newsletter which goes out to >2000 > subscribers > each month. It is growing steadily. > > The platform we use (Mailchimp) allows for a “Welcome Mail” to be send for > new subscribers. > > What do you think a short mail like that should contain? > > > Marcus
<Here is something, mostly copy/pasted from the website> Hello and Welcome to Pharo ! You just subscribed to the Pharo Newsletter mailing list. Each week you will receive an update on what is going on in the Pharo community. An archive of past posting can be found at http://newsletter.pharo.org Our main website [ https://pharo.org ] is the best place to get started as it contains links to various resources, such as http://books.pharo.org - a library of published books http://mooc.pharo.org - an extensive online course Pharo is a mininal, elegant, pure, reflective object language. Yes, in Pharo they are only objects! Nothing else. Yes, the complete syntax of Pharo fits on a postcard. Yes, we code in the debugger and Pharo has super cool tools that empower you and make you super efficient. Pharo's goal is to deliver a clean, innovative, free and open-source immersive environment. By providing a stable and small core system, excellent developing tools, and maintained releases, Pharo is an attractive platform to build and deploy mission critical applications. Pharo fosters a healthy ecosystem of both private and commercial contributors who advance and maintain the core system and its external packages. Pharo features A dynamic, pure object-oriented programming language in the tradition of Smalltalk An IDE (integrated development environment) A huge library and set of external packages Furthermore Pharo is supported by the industrial Pharo consortium [ http://consortium.pharo.org ] Pharo has also an association of users: Pharo association [ http://association.pharo.org ] Regards, The Pharo Community
