Re: What to Do? Silly Valley

[Lao Xiao Hai <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com>]

One of the organiztions in Silicon Valley that gave support to the local
SigAda Chapter was Rational which is based in Santa Clara.   They used
to provide meeting space for us.   Also, certain units of Lockheed-Martin
were willing to let us use their meeting areas.  My guess is that United Defense,
currently an active user of Ada, would also be willing to host a meeting now
and then.

If the meeting notice is submitted eary enough to the San Jose Mercury News,
it will be published in the Computing Section in advance of the meeting.  If
anyone from Rational is listening to this forum, perhaps they would be willing
to offer their facility for the first meeting.

When Tyler Sperry was editor of Embedded Systems Programming Magazine,
he supported our efforts to combine one of our monthly meetings with the SF
Bay Area Embedded Systems Conference.

At present, none of the SF Bay Area Colleges and Universitites (except NPS) still
teaches Ada so we cannot expect much support from that group.   However, a few
professors are open-minded enough to consider attending a SigAda meeting now and
then.

Perhaps Tucker would consider being the inaugural speaker for a resurrected SigAda

in the Bay Area.

I am a past Chairperson of the Chapter.  The nomimal current Chair is Greg Downing
who
used to work at Rational.   Greg is now working elsewhere.   I don't recall who
the Treasurer
was, but there was a couple of hundred dollars in the treasury at the last report
I recall.

Running this kind of organization will require commitment and energy.   We need
someone with
the support of her/his company to do the job.  Otherwise it will simply fade into
obscurity again.

There are still people using Ada in the SF Bay Area who would be interested.
There are also
quite a few who are curious about Ada.    This would be a good time to act.
Now, the question.
Who will take charge and make sure this all comes together?

Richard Riehle

William Dale wrote:

> The ACM SIGAda Bay Area Chapter has been dormant for quite a while.  I
> have an action to help revive it sometime before the LinuxWorld Expo in
> August 2001 here in San Jose.
>
> If anyone would like to get involved here in Silly Valley please let me
> know. I hope to hold a BOF at the LinuxWorld Expo event to get it kicked
> off?  A meeting sooner would be possible as well.
>
> JF Harrison wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe we need a Silly Valley Ada Users Group?
> > >
> > > -- Brian (in Santa Clara, the belly of the beast)
> >
> > I'd join.  Still learning Ada, but isnt that part of what a club/users group
> > is all about?
> > -JF in San Francisco
>
> William Dale
> "Ada has made you lazy and careless.
> You can write programs in C that are just as safe
> by the simple application of super-human diligence."
> mailto:william.dale.jr+adanews@lmco.com
> mailto:n2rhv+adanews@arrl.net