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

[Micronian Coder <micronian2@gmail.com>]

Hi,

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).

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).

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".

-Micronian Coder 


On Thursday, May 3, 2012 3:22:00 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> That's part of the trouble, we've never been able to get clear agreement 
> within the ARA what should be allowed and what should not. There is a 
> legitimate concern about publisizing too much for non-members, which reduces 
> the value of ARA membership to those companies. When Ann and I were in 
> charge, we tended to report all member news, but only significant news 
> events for other companies and organizations (that is, no "minor updates" or 
> "third call for papers"). I think that's still pretty much the case.
> 
> One of the reasons I started hanging out here was to gather possible news 
> items, and I still forward anything interesting to the AdaIC webmaster list. 
> But it is better still if the newsmakers themselves do this; just send any 
> news items to webmaster@adaic.org and the right people will see them (and 
> decide if they ought to be posted).
> 
>                                           Randy.