Statos of Ada Marketing effort in Boston

Statos of Ada Marketing effort in Boston

[Gregory Aharonian]

    Last week I floated a proposal to jointly market Ada at a NASA
conference in Boston at the end of August.  For $50, I would arrange to
display anyone's Ada literature on a table at the Marketplace they will
be having for a day and a half.
    I have gotten some good response.  So far, the following are definites:
Mark Feldman is donating $50 to publicize GNAT, Conn's CDROM, and some of
his papers;  another Ada CDROM company will be displaying their CDROM;
an Ada CASE and consulting company will be displaying their literature;
and myself, with my government software directory.
    The following are maybes:  one of the non-DoD Ada repositories; one
hardware vendor with Ada compilers; maybe Sun with Ada (they might do their
own booth); maybe Rational with whatever (they might do their own booth).

    So, there should be a decent showing of Ada stuff at this NASA show,
which should attract over 500 people.  Sadly, it will be the biggest
display of Ada stuff in the New England area outside a Mandated meeting
in the last five years. So for those who do participate, there should be
some good interest from the attendees.

    Also, it is disappointing that none of the Ada9X participant companies
or STARS companies are participating or donating, given the meager amounts
required.  I have no idea what it will take to get these people to show
some interest in voluntarily promoting and fostering Ada use, to tell the
general public what they tell the DoD.  Maybe I should donate some whips to
the DoD.

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