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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d3d20c60e0efe24b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tucker Taft Subject: Re: Writing Book, Need Ada Ammunition Date: 1999/07/26 Message-ID: <379CBCAC.1116900F@averstar.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 505497668 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: houdini.burl.averstar.com References: <3798F299.25A647E9@averstar.com> <7ngodv$387q$1@news.gate.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Burlington, MA USA Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools) AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA