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

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On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:55:22 AM UTC-5, Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) wrote:
> Le Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:09:46 +0200, Thomas Løcke <thomas@12boo.net> a  
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> > On 10/16/2012 12:57 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
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> >> Which one are you talking about? Either
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> >> http://ada2012.com or
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> >> http://www.ada2012.com redirects to
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> >> http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/about/ada-2012 for me
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> >> Is there a proper and independent ada2012.com I can't access from my
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> > Sigh.. No it's just me flailing blindly around. I meant the ada2012.org
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> OK, I see it now. The issue I also see, is not that much with AWS (*) or  
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> not, but rather with the logo which lacks a real identity. If they wanted  
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> to express a kind of hearth or planet horizon (trying to guess), then may  
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> be a tiny star somewhere would help. Anyway, that may be a good start to  
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> give Ada a logo, as this is an important part of nowadays branding (I use  
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> a the well known simplified picture of Lovelace's face for my Ada files  
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> icon, but why not the idea from AdaCore).
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> (*) how do you know what the server is? I tried to trigger an 404 page,  
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> but this tells nothing about the server.
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It was all my fault, I should have definitely put down the correct URL, my apologies.  

Yes I think branding is important, probably more so than what platform you're using.  I would take that as the Ada 2012 logo just as it is, not necessarily the logo for the Ada, just the 2012 subset.

Dunno, maybe an updated rendition of lady Ada is just what is called for, something that modernizes but keeps it old school.

It's been discussed before but it would certainly be nice to have a repo, maybe something similar to CPAN or PyPi or Hackage.  How about calling it Ada's Slip or something like that, could think of a backronym later.  Good presence on github couldn't hurt either.