Re: Promoting Ada via facebook/google+ ....

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

On 15.10.12 06:57, Michael Erdmann wrote:

> There is a dimension of social networks which existing in communities
> using just websites; newsgroups etc ... the capability of
> viral marketing. I think this mechanism (the like button etc)
> makes is the only technical justification for going to facebook,
> Google+ of Linked in.

Facebook's timeline, taken out of its economic context, is similar
to the ever popular History-of-... posters. The posters that show
major events of the history of operating systems or of programming
languages.

Do we have this history of Ada?
What major Ada events are there, starting in 1976?

Some of the Ada events are likely controversial, so Ada's history is
full of premium quality journalistic material. Bombers vs subway trains
vs toys; Tony Hoare's The Emperor's Old Clothes, and Tony Hoare's
latest edition of Communicating Sequential Processes, ...
Material that if properly selected inevitably causes heated discussions,
of facts vs propaganda. While good input for text processing
companies like Google, Facebook, or the press, it is still a framework
that can generate visibility, even if not just for Ada.

> What is the issue about this site; looks to my like any other
> cooperative web site?

Ada2012.com? Consider its the welcome text with a minor edit:

"The TC39 committee, after discussions with the ERG and with members
 of the Javascript community, has instructed the ERG to complete the
 Amendment to Javascript xyZ so that standardization of the new version
 can be completed by 2012."

WTF? Committee? Aronyms?

What is so cool about this spit of bureaucracy? Who gives an X for
the procedures of some committee?

The idiom and subject of the first � of ada2012.com might interest
higher ranking managers of a big organization's IT. Good choice if
you are AdaCore.

But this very social group, seemingly the target of ada2012.com,
is likely

(a) not present at facebook.com
(b) not interested in specific aspects of a programming language
    relating to the work of ordinary programmers, and attracting
    their attention.

Such as speed of a programming language (sic).