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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,78e482034cf71a6e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.223.84 with SMTP id ij20mr6560802qab.5.1350266937621; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.175.1 with SMTP id y1mr1245064yhl.9.1350266937596; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Path: r17ni24752519qap.0!nntp.google.com!l8no52072823qao.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:08:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.201.93.131; posting-account=aCLEfwoAAAAOAatsIFtV_Z_eteRd3roE NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.201.93.131 References: <397057cf-1aa5-4dbb-820a-79d8aeee4134@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Promoting Ada via facebook/google+ .... From: montezf@gmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:08:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-10-14T19:08:57-07:00 List-Id: I am not sure if Facebook is the way to go. Probably worth a shot, but I th= ink that at least in part. Some people still remember having to deal with A= da as an early language through their university track. That alone probably= leaves something of a bad taste.=20 The problem is as I see it, most of the resources that you find with Ada se= em to be outdated. Which may not be the case, just may not need any updates= . So what would be the point of having a Facebook page directing people to = a community which perhaps requires a little more than most to dig in to gai= n an understanding.=20 The recipe is just about the same for anything else that you're selling. So= you need an easy barrier to entry, Ada doesnt have that, so it better be w= orth it. IMO it is. Need some killer software available that make people = say 'oh I didn't know Ada could do THAT!'=20 We need some voices in the community that are larger than life.=20 Am I alone in thinking that the ada2012.com site which looks pretty smoking= is using apache as the front end web server?