RE: Idea of a new Ada website.

[Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com]

Hi Stephane,

I agree whith Martin.
When we decided sometimes ago with Sam to redesign Ada-France www
(http://www.ada-france.org), we discussed what could be done to help Ada
through the net.
Hosting Ada project was not a real need, SourceForge and other are already
available. Indeed, this is not so easy to administrate. One may even argue
that it's better to have Ada projects hosted on SourceForge or Savannah than
on a specific server, to increase Ada visibility.

AdaIC, AdaPower and maybe some others are pretty good Ada site. Obviously,
you could always better something, here the usability or here get a better
look, etc., but this is a lot of work with very few added value for the Ada
community.

Our conclusion was that the only real need is :
1 - a news portal : when you see that some Ada web page are several month
old, it could gives an impression of a dying interest/support for Ada. On
the other side, there is hardly one week without a tools/library/etc.
version announce on cla.
 
2 - a collaborative site : this is a good way to share the work, get
information quickly, documents up to date, etc.

3 - and also a sexy look, to avoid the impression that Ada is an old
military thing, and confirm that there is an active community.

To conclude, i retains much more interesting the Ada Wiki or the Ada webring
idea than doing another AdaPower/AdaIC/SourceForce/etc.

-- 
Lionel Draghi              http://swpat.ffii.org/index.fr.html 

PS : we are still looking for volonteers to give ada-france web a more
convenient look (and to write news). Any volunteers?