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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4024aa5f74aaba1c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-05 04:09:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3FF953E3.5060505@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Letters References: <0j7nc1-k43.ln1@beastie.ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 12:09:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.16 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1073304578 209.165.24.16 (Mon, 05 Jan 2004 04:09:38 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 04:09:38 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4118 Date: 2004-01-05T12:09:38+00:00 List-Id: Right. I can do without the political/social analyzing that goes on in CACM and would be more interested if they stuck to at least more general uses of computing - but some of that is editorial policy and some of it is the material they are presented with. As for SIGAda - the biggest problem is likely to be lack of involvement of enough people to do a good job of it. Is anyone actively working on articles for the newsletter? Is anyone volunteering to help out with the editing & production? Is anyone at least getting involved in the committees? SIGAda had its heyday when The Mandate still existed because the big defense contractors would pay to send people to the conventions & participate in the committees. Without The Mandate, the participants had better find a way to make it work on their own and that means figuring out what you want to get out of it and what you're willing to put into it. Its an all-volunteer thing, you know. (Is it time again to observe how all-volunteer free-to-the-world software development efforts are difficult to make work? :-) More and bigger commercial users of Ada would help SIGAda be a better organization. Developing a marketable product in Ada and selling it would be a good start - it provides grist for Ada Letters articles, technical papers for SIGAda conventions and a company with a vested interest in watching Ada grow & hence likely to sponsor SIGAda activities. MDC Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > CACM does seem to have spun off all the stuff I found interesting into > a myriad of specialized Transactions -- and who can afford to carry all > of those for one or two good articles a year. Instead we get something > that is heavily biased toward social matters (my opinion). > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================