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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,757d3d6a4830d6a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-27 04:12:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Idea of a new Ada website. Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:14:30 +0200 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1061982678 12178 137.194.161.2 (27 Aug 2003 11:11:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:11:18 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41886 Date: 2003-08-27T13:14:30+02:00 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?