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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AXB_XMAILER_MIMEOLE_OL_024C2, BAYES_40,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,efdfc9eb6aee41c4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Andrew Carroll" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Improving Ada's image Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:38:20 -0600 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <20040604175015.9DE3E4C409B@lovelace.ada-france.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1086380430 64367 212.85.156.195 (4 Jun 2004 20:20:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:20:30 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!ciril.fr!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!feed.ac-versailles.fr!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1107 Date: 2004-06-04T14:38:20-06:00 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