Re: Ada UK, was: Re: Upsurge?

[Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be>]

About the existence of Ada UK, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > Was I mistaken or has it closed ?

and Ludovic Brenta responded:
> Officially, it merged into Ada-Europe a few years ago.

Indeed: in early 2004 Ada UK effectively stopped operations and
transferred its membership application and renewal process to Ada-
Europe.

The announcement that was distributed at that time can still be
retrieved at <http://web.archive.org/web/20031206045442/http://
www.adauk.org.uk/>.

> Its former
> publication, "Ada User", eventually became Ada-Europe's quarterly "Ada
> User Journal". So, if you are interested in the AUJ and the Ada 2005
> Rationale, you can become a direct member of Ada-Europe.

See <http://www.ada-europe.org/join.html> for more info.

> (Personally, I think it is a shame that the UK, probably the European
> country with the most Ada developers, now lacks a national
> organisation and corresponding vote in ISO ballots.)

Note that the UK is still represented in WG9, the ISO working group on
Ada: see <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG9/members.htm>.

But this obviously happens outside the context of a national Ada
organization...

Given all the Ada work going on in the UK, and the recent Ada
conferences there in the past 3 years, it would be great if a few
people would get together and recreate an Ada UK organization.

Anyway, for now I can only strongly concur with Ludovic and encourage
everyone in the UK who's interested in Ada-Europe's activities to
apply for direct Ada-Europe membership.

We're looking forward to many new members!

Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Europe vice-president