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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Promoting Ada via facebook/google+ ....
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:49:49 +0300
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On 12-10-07 19:26 , Michael Erdmann wrote:
> Why this post?
> 
> Yesterday while checking through comp.lang.ada i stumbled upon the
> following statement from Patrick:
> 
> ... There are too many sites that make it seem like Ada is dead...
> 
> Frankly speaking i have to agree; the Ada community seems to be like
> an endangered animal; successfully existing unseen in a niche.

One reason for that is that any "pushy" promotion of Ada tends to
trigger an aggressive and negative response. Ada advocates must speak
very softly, I've found.

> What i would propose
> 
> Persuade the Ada Information House to become visible in facebook
> as it is done my NASA, ESA etc. by presenting the events
> they are showing on there first page in a time line.
> 
> All the enthusiasts in this community should gather together to
> maintain a fan page in facebook to create better visibility of there
> activities, means events, software releases ...

I think that I have good reasons for avoiding Facebook as a discussion
channel. I prefer a high-quality, high signal-to-noise forum like c.l.a.

> Please take facebook just as a place holder for any other kind
> of social network where we could achieve some visibility.

c.l.a is a social network, of a kind. The question is to whom we want to
be visible. I suspect that the average Facebook user is not it.

> I am not at all sure that this helps but i guess it will do
> no harm to hook into social network and try to get some
> attention there;
> 
> Any comments ideas .... or is every thing fine as it is?

I think we need visibility among professional or advanced amateur
programmers who already use several languages, and are therefore not in
love with a single language and blind to its defects. I suspect many of
them read IEEE Computer Society publications. An article on Ada 2012 in
"Computer" could be useful.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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