From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 25 Jul 93 22:02:08 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.s ura.net!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: TRI-ADA Message-ID: <1993Jul25.220208.23389@seas.gwu.edu> List-Id: In article <2333.237.uupcb@nitelog.com> michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Ha gerty) writes: > >Is there really a reason why, year after year, getting information about >Tri-Ada so one can register is like pulling teeth? Here we are less than >two months from Tri-Ada and the first info on the conference shows up in >Ada Letters. No flyers have been received, even though I have attended >the past two Tri-Ada conferences. > [stuff deleted] >Is it the goal of those organizing Tri-Ada to withhold the information >until the end to see just who is really committed to Ada (and will attend)? >I would think that it would be beneficial to the spread of Ada usage to >promote the meetings long in advance, provide details sufficiently far in >advance that potential attendees can solicit management/funding approval >and be able to plan schedules to account for being at the conference. > >Over the years I have attended many conferences and do not recall another >series of conferences which have gone as far to inconvenience potential >attendees as does Tri-Ada. And it appears to be consistent from year to >year... > Amen to that! Considering how much money Tri-Ada pulls in for SIGAda, I think the SIGAda powers-that-be should whip the Tri-Ada powers-that-be into shape. I won't bore you all with more anecdotes... Cheers - Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5253 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "We just changed our CONFIG.SYS, then pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL. It was easy." -- Alexandre Giglavyi, director Lyceum of Information Technologies, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------