Join the Ada Resource Association

What is the ARA?

The Ada Resource Association is a self-supporting non-profit organization with two main objectives: to maintain the Ada language standard and infrastructure, and to promote and publicize Ada usage. Established in 1991, the ARA plays a critical role in networking the Ada community and keeping all software developers aware of Ada's technological advances and current usage. The ARA currently includes a number of major Ada software development tool vendors: AdaCore, Praxis Critical Systems, and SofCheck. The President of the ARA is Ben Brosgol from AdaCore.

Infrastructure support is essential to the continued vitality of the Ada language. The ARA meets that goal by sponsoring technical work on the maintenance of the ISO Ada standard and its companion conformance test suite. These efforts have been instrumental in developing Ada 2005 (the revision to Ada 95) and shepherding its standardization through ISO. Ada 2005's new capabilities are enhancing Ada's role as a language of choice for high-reliability real-time applications, and increasing its ability to work with other languages such as Java.

The ARA also promotes and publicizes Ada usage, especially applications that use ARA members' products and services. We maintain the highly rated website Ada News (http://www.adaic.org), where the software community finds the latest news on Ada, as well as success stories, technical papers, links on where to learn Ada, and jobs. The Ada News editor issues press releases monthly to over 500 high-tech editors and journalists on Ada-related developments, researches and write Ada success stories, and updates the website. The ARA also sponsors and staffs the SIGAda booth at such trade shows as the Software Technology Conference, the Embedded Systems Conference, and OOPSLA.

Why Join the ARA?

If your company markets Ada-related products or services then you can profit from ARA membership. In addition to the overall effects of the ARA's sponsored activities, such as a viable and evolving standard and general promotion of Ada as a language of choice, you will receive tangible benefits in several areas:

Benefits from the SIGAda booth at conferences and trade shows
- Leads lists of booth visitors
- The opportunity to conduct demos and distribute marketing literature
Special treatment on the ARA/AdaIC web site
- Member news spotlights on the home page and selected interior pages, with links and clickthroughs going directly to the member's website
- Priority handling of announcements or news items
- Priority placement in AdaIC search engine results
- Inclusion of a member profile
Public relations
- Assistance with preparing success stories based on your company's Ada products and services
- Technical and PR agents who will gladly field calls and questions if you need an external source of Ada information for clients considering Ada

The ability to "piggyback" on the SIGAda booth at conferences is an especially significant money-saver. It means that you can get many of the benefits of exhibiting but without the expense and inconvenience of shipping and staffing a booth. Even if you have a booth at the conference, the SIGAda booths acts as a beacon for all Ada parties and will raise your profile as an Ada tool innovator.

For further information, please contact the ARA's President Ben Brosgol.

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