Improving Ada's image

["Andrew Carroll" <andrew@carroll-tech.net>]

I have an idea.  I don't know if it has already mentioned or not but
lets form an international company.  We could all be in charge of a
"division" that is in our city and if there were several people who
lived close then they could be in the same division.  Initially we could
use something "like" sourceforge for projects and we could all submit
ideas for software to build.  Then we have a whole company of people to
start knocking out software for an international market.

In the US there is a large push for small devices like handhelds and
cell phones, wireless devices and web services provided by .Net or Java.
Games are huge here in the US.  So there's some work for us already.  I
am not an accountant or business person so I can't answer any questions
about funding.  I do have some ideas.

We could sell all our used toys on ebay.  Or open an online store or
something and sell 'widgets' and 'thingamabobs'.  Then again, we have to
have funding for that as well.  Maybe for the first project we could all
volunteer some time to get a product out there and then use the revenue
for the next project?

I guess there are too many issues with this idea?  Who runs it?  Who do
we all trust to handle all the cash we would make?  So on, and so forth.

In closing I will say this.  If Ada is going to be big, or even bigger,
it's going to take a large team effort.

Andrew Carroll
Carroll-Tech
720-273-6814
andrew@carroll-tech.net