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: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <40b9c99e$0$268$edfadb0f@dread16.news.tele.dk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:35:59 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1086626094 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:34:54 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:34:54 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1194 Date: 2004-06-07T12:35:59-04:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > "Per Dalgas Jakobsen" wrote in message > news:40b9c99e$0$268$edfadb0f@dread16.news.tele.dk... > >>Instead of advertising for Ada in software magazines, web-sites, etc. I >>believe that Ada needs to get an "image-lift" at executive level. Imagine if >>we could get to the point when project managers are suggesting C/C++ and >>the executive asks: "Why not use Ada?" :-p > > Sadly, there is no money available in the Ada community for advertising > or public relations. The money we did have was squandered on silly > posters and ineffective advertising about the time Ada 95 appeared. The > people charged with making the advertising decisions were inexperienced > in the ways of advertising and the ads had no appreciable effect. ... > Richard Riehle Well, if Open Source projects can receive funding through the use of an Open Sourced (Penguin logo-ed) credit card (through interest profits), then perhaps something similar could be used to fund advertising for Ada. The largest problem might be to attract enough card users, though they need not be software people at all. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg