From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA28946 for caml-red; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:33:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24346 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 23:29:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from c012.sfo.cp.net (c012-h004.c012.sfo.cp.net [209.228.13.95]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f19MT4L03215 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 23:29:04 +0100 (MET) Received: (cpmta 6522 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2001 14:29:02 -0800 Date: 9 Feb 2001 14:29:02 -0800 Message-ID: <20010209222902.6521.cpmta@c012.sfo.cp.net> X-Sent: 9 Feb 2001 22:29:02 GMT Received: from [206.49.216.243] by mail.altavista.com with HTTP; 09 Feb 2001 14:29:02 PST Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre.Weis@inria.fr From: Arturo Borquez Cc: caml-list@inria.fr X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.8.1.6 Subject: about Caml Consortium Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Some words about the new Caml Consortium. 1) I am sure that it would be a great help to promote Caml and bring it out to the real world. It is difficult to explain managers to be confident if there are no 'kwnown names', their oppinions are plaged by marketing and a lot of paraphernalia they heard from software vendors. So if you get some 'important' sponsors I think it would be a great help. 2) Cultured individuals are also very important to be a part of the Consortuim as they are the principal promoters in the outside world at the begining. But a fee of 2K EUROS is too high. It's necessary to have a channel between the Consortium and community, I figure a sort of 'advocate colaborators' membership for a fee about 100 EUROS/year. 3) many people like me are tired with the avalanche of bad designed and bloated 'products' some companies put in the market, you spend a lot effort inspecting, studying evaluating and finally you got almost nothing (more layers, more complexity to do the same). I agreed the phrase that "LESS IS MORE". Only well minded, criterious design and implementations are to survive, so it is very important to the future of Caml not be contaminated and do it's own road perphaps slow at beginning, but beating hard. Regards Arturo Borquez. Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com