Re: News on the AdaIC website? (Was: Re: Adaforge?)

[Micronian Coder <micronian2@gmail.com>]

Hmm, I just thought of an idea after making my post. What about AdaIC dividing the news page of AdaIC to have both a "What ARA Members Are Doing" section and a "Ada Community News" section for non-member info? That way, the ARA news can stay visible rather than get pushed away as non-member info gets posted more regularly.

Just a thought.

-Micronian Coder


On Friday, May 4, 2012 1:22:40 AM UTC-7, Micronian Coder wrote:
> Hi,
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> It is understandable that there is a desire for ARA membership to mean something, but because it "appears" that AdaCore is the only company that is active, it easily leads to what I said earlier about AdaIC being another PR page for AdaCore (to be fair, yes there are some non-AdaCore news).
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> I often visit the websites of other companies, including yours, but there is normally zero news of anything happening. I still think it is good to see ARA and companies involved present on AdaIC because it shows that there is still commercial support for Ada. However, without other companies putting in more effort into sharing what they are doing on AdaIC, AdaIC should focus more on non-member activity. If not, it will seem less attractive as a place to turn to for Ada matters because the accumulation of news and info is so slow. I know I hardly go to AdaIC anymore because of these reasons. I normally visit places like Ada Reddit and comp.lang.ada because there is far more activity. That's a shame. When AdaIC got it's new look, I really thought that was an indication of an effort to make it "the" Ada page to visit (note: of course, nothing on the webpage indicated that was the intention).
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> If AdaIC is really open to submissions about non-member activity as you stated then I'll be glad to submit info as I come across it, even if it is already duplicated else where (ie. Ada Reddit). That would help AdaIC seem more "alive".
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> -Micronian Coder 
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