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-Thread: 103376,75acdeaad9326407 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.68.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!nuzba.szn.dk!news.szn.dk!pnx.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:24:23 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_L=F8cke?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101119 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada group on identica References: <4ad07589-1d1a-4c3f-8937-c0895ea96281@w21g2000vby.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad07589-1d1a-4c3f-8937-c0895ea96281@w21g2000vby.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <4d00a047$0$23757$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.91.213.86 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=D0bbN6kUnVeHZJdbckJAndmA6m:gMh]i0caBPdSh0TI0d X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16833 Date: 2010-12-09T10:24:23+01:00 List-Id: On 2010-12-09 09:58, Maciej Sobczak wrote: > Considering a small size of the Ada community, creating too many > groups, forums, fan pages and whatnot like this will inevitably lead > to dispersing the effort. I'm not sure if the community can afford > this. The community is currently very small, compared to other languages. I think it is safe to say that we need all the visibily we can get. The Ada community generates some interesting things, but few people outside the Ada community is aware of this. I do not generate a lot of Ada code (yet!), but I do spend a bit of time every day trying to attract attention to the work done by people like you Maciej. This is just another tool to help with that effort. > "Not too dissimilar from Twitter" begs the question: what is the added > value of it? I think the identi.ca crowd is more technically oriented, so the audience is probably more inclined to check out a blurb about Ada. Obviously, the more people who subscribe to the Ada group, the more alive and vibrant it will appear. -- Regards, Thomas L�cke Email: tl at ada-dk.org Web: http:ada-dk.org IRC nick: ThomasLocke