Re: AdaCore, user community and communication channels

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 31.01.11 10:04, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> On Jan 30, 9:22 pm, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Yes. But the point is, how are they to become aware of the bug?
> 
> This is very simple: AdaCore is the leading provider of Ada-related
> products and comp.lang.ada is the most active social website where Ada
> is being discussed - and, please fasten your seatbelt, where their
> next generation of customers is growing up. If AdaCore does not lurk
> here, then there is either something terribly wrong with them or with
> this newsgroup - ie. at least one of them has serious identity issues.

Perhaps another means of nurturing future Ada markets should be
added to the picture: the GAP contracts might be creating win-win
situations, without the need for programming students (and AdaCore
staff) to spend time in a public news group.   I'll also speculate
that not all types of programmer personalities would wish to present
themselves in public fora.

If said sets of next generation customers are perceived to be
relatively large, there is only one conclusion considering
comp.lang.ada: AdaCore staff stopping by would be enough, and
should be preferred to spending work hours here.  At least
when seen from the perspective of a marketing agent who compares
Utility(Resource => GAP) and Utility(Resource => comp.lang.ada).