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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,954655e6ccab4ebb X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!q11g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Lego Mindstoms for Ada: user group Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:14:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1ee51ea4-da4e-4efc-be12-2015268db888@q11g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> References: <069be29a-c0cc-40eb-855a-b94dea5bd04f@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <8763e44wk1.fsf@nbi.dk> <59a63a21-d65c-4915-9c66-08288e8dd148@t13g2000yqt.googlegroups.com> <9a868e2f-4cb7-41b4-8e43-c9a1f061d374@m11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <8be60c4b-caf0-4a94-9834-1c2676aae9d6@37g2000yqp.googlegroups.com> <75741b93-5729-4050-96d9-ce5a3c151b64@t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <6c6846ac-7ca5-4d35-bdc7-3c031474171e@t21g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <60e6255c-1cf2-45d7-b7ce-3ffc675946f2@t33g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.170.86.208 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247094864 4118 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2009 23:14:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q11g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.170.86.208; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061208 Iceweasel/3.0.9 (Debian-3.0.9-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6914 Date: 2009-07-08T16:14:24-07:00 List-Id: Matteo Bordin wrote on comp.lang.ada: > On Jul 8, 3:05=A0pm, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > > > > On Jul 8, 2:59=A0pm, roda...@tpg.com.au wrote: > > > > On Jul 8, 10:30=A0pm, Ludovic Brenta wro= te: > > > > Why not use comp.lang.ada and meaningful subject lines like the one > > > > for this thread? =A0Is the traffic already too high here? > > > > =A0 =A0Heh, the traffic on cla is *never* too high :). > > > > =A0 =A0The worry is that the traffic on the formal lego forum may bec= ome > > > too high, and so obscure the purer Ada language questions on cla. > > > > =A0 =A0At least, I can live in hope that it will be so ... > > > I appreciate your forward thinking but "premature optimization is the > > root of all evil". =A0So, I think comp.lang.ada is appropriate until th= e > > Lego-related traffic becomes to high. =A0At that point a new forum will > > become necessary and justified. =A0Just my two cents :) > > I have to say I still believe a *subgroup* of the LEGO Fan group on > Linkedin would be the best option. You would have the advantage of > having a dedicated group which is also visible to other LEGO users > around the globe, thus providing more visibility to the Ada language, > to the GNAT-on-MINDSTORMS project and to your discussions. We would > not have these advantages if the discussion takes place on c.l.a or > IRC. > > I would be happy to start the discussion to create the new subgroup on > linkedin. The problems with LinkedIn are its proprietary and centralized nature and the absence of a search engine. And it does not allow you to choose your client, as Usenet does. Finally, it is a "professional" network, not necessarily accessible or attractive to teenagers. Making Ada more visible to the more general Lego Mindstorms is, of course, a worthy goal. I therefore suggest the existing Usenet newsgroup alt.comp.lego-mindstorms as a better solution; in addition it makes cross-posting to comp.lang.ada possible and even desirable IMHO. -- Ludovic Brenta.