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 TAA27710; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:35:28 +0200 (MET DST) 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 TAA27872 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:35:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [128.29.154.90]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f9OHZPj05908; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:35:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9OHZN129958; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:35:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9OHZMs27466; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:35:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from malabar.mitre.org (malabar.mitre.org [129.83.10.30]) by linus.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09890; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:35:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from guttman@localhost) by malabar.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03835; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:35:21 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: malabar.mitre.org: guttman set sender to guttman@mitre.org using -f To: Xavier Leroy Cc: rose@acm.org, Michel.Mauny@inria.fr, caml-list@inria.fr, guttman@mitre.org (Joshua D. Guttman) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Whither the Caml Consortium? Reply-To: guttman@mitre.org (Joshua D. Guttman disp: current) 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> <20011024164835.C20823@pauillac.inria.fr> From: guttman@mitre.org (Joshua D. Guttman) Date: 24 Oct 2001 13:35:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20011024164835.C20823@pauillac.inria.fr> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Xavier Leroy writes: > > > The current setup of the Consortium is definitely geared towards > corporate members, not individuals. Raising money to fund future > developments is one goal of the Consortium, but an equally > important goal is to answer the age-old question "what other > corporations are using it?" that we get from prospective > industrial users. > A corporation is of course not an entity with a single point of view. The people working on a particular project or in a particular area may use OCaml, and want to support the Consortium, although their management may not have much interest. For instance, in my own case, I have been using OCaml for several years, and I have found a few colleagues who now also use it effectively. My management tolerates this peculiarity in me, so long as I am not strident about it. (:-). I imagine there are other people in similar situations. For people like me, it would be good to have a level of consortium membership that a single project could justify. If there was something in the three figure range (i.e. hundreds but not thousands of dollars), I would simply make the arrangements and I'd never have to convince anyone organizationally very distant from me. But for a consortium membership that costs thousands, I would have to convince people I rarely interact with, and they would want to decide whether OCaml should play some company-wide role, and probably it would be a dead end. Would the OCaml Consortium consider something like this? Cheers -- Joshua -- Joshua D. Guttman MITRE, Mail Stop S119 202 Burlington Rd. Tel: +1 781 271 2654 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 USA Fax: +1 781 271 8953 ------------------- 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