From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2573df63ff37c586 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.136.33 with SMTP id px1mr2359515pbb.7.1336120264055; Fri, 04 May 2012 01:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Path: pr3ni2384pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Micronian Coder Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: News on the AdaIC website? (Was: Re: Adaforge?) Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 01:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <18384878.563.1336120174281.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynff16> References: <10872380.887.1335622497447.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfr18><20524276.2208.1335953540520.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbqq1> <8762cd9yc8.fsf_-_@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <27835190.411.1336119760869.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjn4> NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.103.151.88 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1336120263 28146 127.0.0.1 (4 May 2012 08:31:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 08:31:03 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <27835190.411.1336119760869.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjn4> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.103.151.88; posting-account=tXrPSAkAAAAFR3M1xqoK7TQdrNxOfPT0 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-05-04T01:29:34-07:00 List-Id: Hmm, I just thought of an idea after making my post. What about AdaIC divid= ing the news page of AdaIC to have both a "What ARA Members Are Doing" sect= ion and a "Ada Community News" section for non-member info? That way, the A= RA news can stay visible rather than get pushed away as non-member info get= s posted more regularly. Just a thought. -Micronian Coder On Friday, May 4, 2012 1:22:40 AM UTC-7, Micronian Coder wrote: > Hi, >=20 > It is understandable that there is a desire for ARA membership to mean so= mething, 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). >=20 > 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 s= ee ARA and companies involved present on AdaIC because it shows that there = is still commercial support for Ada. However, without other companies putti= ng in more effort into sharing what they are doing on AdaIC, AdaIC should f= ocus 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 t= hought that was an indication of an effort to make it "the" Ada page to vis= it (note: of course, nothing on the webpage indicated that was the intentio= n). >=20 > If AdaIC is really open to submissions about non-member activity as you s= tated then I'll be glad to submit info as I come across it, even if it is a= lready duplicated else where (ie. Ada Reddit). That would help AdaIC seem m= ore "alive". >=20 > -Micronian Coder=20 >=20 >=20