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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,75acdeaad9326407 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada group on identica Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:01:21 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4ad07589-1d1a-4c3f-8937-c0895ea96281@w21g2000vby.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kyiD2bWoGillei6smQAH1w.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.63 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17268 Date: 2011-01-01T18:01:21+01:00 List-Id: Le Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:58:14 +0100, Maciej Sobczak = a =C3=A9crit: > On Dec 7, 8:53 pm, R Tyler Croy wrote: > >> I was bummed when I didn't find an Ada group on Identi.ca so I went = >> ahead and >> created one: >> >> >> For the uninitiated, Identi.ca is a microblogging service not too = >> dissimilar >> from Twitter, but far more heavily populated with hackers :) > > Considering a small size of the Ada community, creating too many > groups, forums, fan pages and whatnot like this will inevitably lead > to dispersing the effort. I'm not sure if the community can afford > this. > > "Not too dissimilar from Twitter" begs the question: what is the added= > value of it? > > -- > Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com May be evolution. Evolution requires multiple opened branches. Although = = there is an Ada standard, there is no standard Ada writer, no standard A= da = feeling, and so on; and that is for the best (I believe). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]