Frank, Not only have I heard of this group, I am Tutorial Chair for the USA Conference site. Back when Ada 9X was introduced with support for object-oriented programming, I presented a tutorial on Ada for the TOOLS USA conference. Ever since then, this has been an Ada-friendly conference. Over the past several years we have had many Ada-related tutorials and papers at the conference. Each year we have, on the last day of the conference, a session called "The Great Language Debate." Ada is always one of the languages represented in that debate. The conference welcomes papers with original scholarly work on object technology that includes Ada or demonstrates a concept using Ada. There are five TOOLS conferences each year: TOOLS USA always the first week of August in Santa Barbara, CA TOOLS Europe usually somewhere in France TOOLS Asia Beijing, Shanghai, or elsewhere in China TOOLS Pacific This year it is in Sydney, Australia TOOLS Eastern Europe The plan is for TOOLS conferences to be held in other countries. We will probably see a TOOLS South America in future years. The idea is to keep them small and focused and available to people of the geographic area nearby so the technologies can be accessible. We (I) would be pleased to see more Ada representation at future TOOLS conferences. Richard Richard Riehle [log in to unmask] AdaWorks Software Engineering 6 Sepulveda Circle Salinas, CA 93906 (831) 443-5536 http://www.adaworks.com On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Beard, Frank wrote: > Anybody every heard of this group? > > TOOLS (Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems) > > http://www.tools-conferences.com/ > > I just stumble across them recently. > > Frank >