Erlang projects association

[Daniel Dudley]

Are we to understand that this will now be an international
association?

Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mickael Remond" <mickael.remond@REDACTED>
To: <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 2:51 PM
Subject: Erlang projects association

> Hello,
>
> Two years ago, we made the Erlang-fr.org website. Its mission was to
> promote Erlang in France. We now realize that two things were wrong:
> - We should not have limited this initiative to France.
> - We did not pay enough attention to the fact that promoting Erlang
is
> currently a very difficult task without a proper understanding of
the
> real expectations of both the users and the developers.
> For the latter, the recent activity on this mailing list seems to
> indicate that we are not alone ;-)
>
> That's why we have decided to create an association to pragmatically
> work on those issues. The main goal of this association is to gather
> users and developers, both individuals and companies to work on
projects
> that are needed to help us spread Erlang.
>
> The first tasks will be to identify the major domains for which
Erlang
> should shine. We will then start dedicated workgroups that will have
to
> identify existing relevant projects and to help them go further.
>
> We are aware that this quick announcement seems quite abstract at
the
> moment but hopefully it will soon get "real" :-)
>
> Stay tuned ! ;-)
>
> --
> Thierry Mallard
> Mickaël Rémond
>  http://www.erlang-fr.org/