From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: Writing Book, Need Ada Ammunition
Date: 1999/07/26
Date: 1999-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <379CBCAC.1116900F@averstar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ngodv$387q$1@news.gate.net
David Botton wrote:
>
> Tucker Taft wrote in message <3798F299.25A647E9@averstar.com>...
>
> >Ada is doing just fine. It doesn't have a hype engine.
>
> But it needs one.
>
> Is the Ada Resource Association (ARA) an working entity?
Yes. We pay for the www.adaic.org website, and subsidize
the Ada Rapporteur Group and SIGAda. We also have hired someone (Ann Brandon)
to write additional white papers, journal articles, and press releases.
If you post suggestions to comp.lang.ada for such things, she will probably
see them. However, we don't have the resources for direct advertising,
at the current time, but the conventional wisdom is that public relations
is more valuable than advertising, for a given budget. In particular,
writing articles for the various trade magazines is extremely important,
and we encourage all members of the Ada community to make an effort to
do so. Ann Brandon is available to help with editing, and in getting
such papers published.
> I didn't see any contacts on the web pages.
We point to the individual ARA member web pages, which presumably
have plenty of contacts. Also, there is a pointer to the
webmaster for the ARA and Ada I/C web sites on every page (I hope).
> David Botton
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-21 0:00 Writing Book, Need Ada Ammunition Ken O. Burtch
1999-07-21 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-07-21 0:00 ` jerry
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-07-23 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-07-24 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-07-22 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-07-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-26 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-07-26 0:00 ` Ken O. Burtch
1999-07-26 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
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