Re: What to Do? Silly Valley

[William Dale <william.dale.jr+adanews@lmco.com>]

All good information.  
At this point I'm sure Lockheed nor even Rational will put too much
support behind Ada of SIGAda.  I'm not sure I am available to help too
much more that assisting with a few meetings a year and getting better
visibility at Linux conferences. 

My fear is that soon everyone will be switching to C# -- even outside of
Microsoft systems. 

Lao Xiao Hai wrote:
> 
> 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