From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA18101; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:33:30 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA18149 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:33:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from quincy.inria.fr (quincy.inria.fr [128.93.8.52]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f9PIXRr12699 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:33:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from mauny@localhost) by quincy.inria.fr (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f9PIbdK24856 for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:37:39 +0200 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:37:38 +0200 From: Michel Mauny To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Whither the Caml Consortium? Message-ID: <20011025203738.B24282@quincy.inria.fr> Reply-To: Michel.Mauny@inria.fr References: <20011020012347.A29847@quincy.inria.fr> <20011019192854.N9735-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> <20011020172932.A5967@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <20011022192533.A12039@quincy.inria.fr> <3BD45932.6D782E08@earthlink.net> <20011024175707.A23319@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> <15319.58040.859039.299169@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15319.58040.859039.299169@gargle.gargle.HOWL>; from tews@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:00:24PM +0200 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hendrik Tews wrote/écrivait (Oct 25 2001, 12:00PM +0200): > Sven writes: > i was contemplating creating a association in france to group > several users which would, once we are able to sum up the 2000 > euros, become one member of the consortium. > > Are you sure that your application to become a member of the > consortium will be successful? As I understand it, INRIA decides > on the applications. I confirm that we want such an application to be successful and I see no problem at all. > My impression from the current thread (and from previous ones on > the consortium) is that there is some confusion about the real > purpose of the consortium (i.e., INRIAS position) Well, Xavier's post (http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200110/msg00272.html) was rather clear, as well as the description of the Consortium given as appendix of the membership agreement at http://caml.inria.fr/consortium/documents/Annex1-eng.shtml Roughly speaking, the idea is to bring together major users (as many as possible) in order to make other potential users more confident in the future of OCaml. The existence of the Consortium should bring (probably partial) answers to questions such as "Who else is using it?", "What happens in case INRIA stops supporting it?". Hopefully, at some point, some companies able to sell services around Caml will be members of the CC, and that could also help in answering other important questions such as "What company could maintain, adapt or further develop this OCaml app that we are planning to use?" The goal of further developing OCaml for it to match more precisely the needs of programmers, and getting funds for that, is of course also important, but I think the primary goal is the one given above. We all understand that it's a chicken/egg problem, and this is why it's starting a bit slowly (my opinion). (Well, honestly, one should probably also add some work overload on my side as an another reason.) And, again, forming an OCaml users group that would be a member of the Consortium is definitely a good idea. -- Michel ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr