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,efdfc9eb6aee41c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40C1C12B.5030306@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: Improving Ada's image References: <20040604175015.9DE3E4C409B@lovelace.ada-france.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 12:49:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.65.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1086439758 165.247.65.119 (Sat, 05 Jun 2004 05:49:18 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 05:49:18 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1124 Date: 2004-06-05T12:49:18+00:00 List-Id: Well that's the kind of spirit it takes to get more Ada into the "Real World" and start developing a larger base of Ada projects! I'd suggest that you think about it this way: Rather than try to organize a company and go searching for ideas, get an idea and form a company around it. Think of some product that you believe might have a market. It doesn't need to be new - just something you think could be done better, etc. Get enough of a back-of-the-envelope sketch of what you think it would look like and start talking to people to see if they'd be interested in working on it. You have to determine what you think the market is (who would buy it? how many could be sold? at what price?) and from there you can start worrying about developing an organization to do it. Don't bite off more than you can chew - its best to get something small going and from there look to expand it. But you're thinking along the right lines! MDC Andrew Carroll wrote: > I have an idea. I don't know if it has already mentioned or not but > lets form an international company. We could all be in charge of a > "division" that is in our city and if there were several people who > lived close then they could be in the same division. Initially we could > use something "like" sourceforge for projects and we could all submit > ideas for software to build. Then we have a whole company of people to > start knocking out software for an international market. > > In the US there is a large push for small devices like handhelds and > cell phones, wireless devices and web services provided by .Net or Java. > Games are huge here in the US. So there's some work for us already. I > am not an accountant or business person so I can't answer any questions > about funding. I do have some ideas. > > We could sell all our used toys on ebay. Or open an online store or > something and sell 'widgets' and 'thingamabobs'. Then again, we have to > have funding for that as well. Maybe for the first project we could all > volunteer some time to get a product out there and then use the revenue > for the next project? > > I guess there are too many issues with this idea? Who runs it? Who do > we all trust to handle all the cash we would make? So on, and so forth. > > In closing I will say this. If Ada is going to be big, or even bigger, > it's going to take a large team effort. > > Andrew Carroll > Carroll-Tech > 720-273-6814 > andrew@carroll-tech.net > -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================