NICE News and Updates

Nov 17, 2003

Eighteen new NICE members are accepted.

Aug 15, 2003

Six new NICE members are accepted.

May 6, 2003

Nine new NICE members are accepted.

Feb 22, 2003

NICE board will organize International Eiffel Contest 2003.

Feb 10, 2003

Six new NICE members are accepted.

Nov, 2002

The new NICE board members are announced.

Nov 21, 2002

Eight new NICE members are accepted.

Aug 14, 2002

Five new NICE members are accepted.

Jun 19, 2002

Four new NICE members are accepted.

Nov 17, 2003

(MOTION 2003-05) Eighteen new NICE members are accepted.

Aug 15, 2003

(MOTION 2003-04) Six new NICE members are accepted.

May 6, 2003

(MOTION 2003-03) Nine new NICE members are accepted.

Feb 22, 2003

(MOTION 2003-02) NICE board will organize the Eiffel Struggle 2003.

Feb 10, 2003

(MOTION 2003-01) Six new NICE members are accepted.

Nov, 2002

The new NICE board members are announced.

Nov 21, 2002

(MOTION 2002-06) Eight new NICE members are accepted.

Aug 14, 2002

(MOTION 2002-05) Five new NICE members are accepted.

Jun 19, 2002

(MOTION 2002-04) Four new NICE members are accepted.

Apr 11, 2002

(MOTION 2002-03) Five new NICE members are accepted.

Jan 27, 2002

(MOTION 2002-02) New language standard NICE-5 ("creation" instruction) added.

Jan 7, 2002

(MOTION 2002-01) Three new NICE members are accepted.

Nov 12, 2001

Two new NICE members are accepted.

Oct 1, 2001

A proposal for revising ARRAY and CHARACTER to make all features safe for their descendants passed a membership vote. The proposal refines the features as_lower and as_upper in CHARACTER and revises features resize, force, is_equal, and subarray as well as the class documentation in ARRAY.

The change to class ARRAY will upgrade ELKS 2000 ARRAY into ELKS 2002 ARRAY. The membership will leave ELKS 2002 ARRAY open for another month or two in case any errors or omissions come to light. After that, the membership will vote to present it to the NICE Board.

The change to class CHARACTER adds to the previous changes for this class. CHARACTER has not yet been reviewed completely, so it will not be read to form a new ELKS CHARACTER standard until the membership returns to this class for a complete review at a later date.

September 16, 2001

The NICE members list has been updated from our records.

September 7, 2001

A proposal for extending class ARRAY has passed a membership vote. The proposal adds features 'make_from_array', 'array' and 'same_array' to the ELKS 2002 ARRAY class, according to the 3 SEPTEMBER 2001 version. Feature 'make_from_array' is both a creation procedure and a command.

August 30, 2001

The NICE-4 ELKS 2001 STRING specification has been approved.

July 24, 2001

Four new NICE members are accepted.

March 18, 2001

The results of Eiffel Struggle 2000 have been posted on the NICE web site.

February, 2001

The new NICE board members are announced.

February 15, 2001

A new section added: NICE Standards

February 3, 2000

The NICE Board has approved the following two motions, confirming that 2000 will be another fee-free year:

1. MOTION 2000-01: Membership fees for 2000
   That the Regular Membership fee for the year 2000 is $0 (zero dollars).
2. MOTION 2000-02: Carry forward 1999 memberships
   That all existing 1999 memberships be carried forward to December 31 2000.

The Regular Membership Application Page updated to reflect MOTION 2000-01.

26 Dec 1999

The Eiffel Stuggle '99 Results were announced by Franck Arnaud on 23 December 1999.

Link provided to Roger Browne's NICE Support Pages which have been provided "to facilitate the ongoing activities of the projects described [on the page - namely 'The Vintage 2000 Kernel Project']"

08 Nov 1999

Frieder Monninger presents the 1999 Treasurer's Report.

07 Nov 1999

Eiffel NICE members vote in favour to increase the Board Size to four members.

14 Sep 1999

NICE accepts 10 new Regular Members.

20 Aug 1999

A working group has been established to form a proposal for ELKS 2000. The initial members of the group include Dominque Colnet (colnet@loria.fr) Emmanuel Stapf (manus@eiffel.com) and Olivier Zendra (zendra@loria.fr). The initial proposal only includes STRING and ARRAY and is being actively discussed on the eiffel-nice-library mailing list.

19 Aug 1999

NICE accepts 14 new Regular Members.

16 Jul 1999

Upgraded the Bylaws sub-site (split into Sections to provide smaller pages and easier navigation).

15 Jul 1999

NICE establishes Eiffel Struggle '99 sub-site.

14 Jul 1999

LinuxToday.com provide details for the Eiffel Struggle '99.

13 Jul 1999

NICE accepts 14 new Regular Members.

09 Jul 1999

ISE have kindly offered to provide facilities to host a NICE Meeting at TOOLS USA '99. The date for the meeting has not been finalised but will most likely follow the Eiffel Summit '99 to be held on Tuesday 03 August 1999.

01 Jul 1999

NICE accepts 69 new Regular Members.

28 Jun 1999

NICE establishes new Mailing Lists to facilitate discussion. Hopefully these lists will become active following the Northern Summer Holiday period.

25 Jun 1999

Franck Arnaud announces details for the Eiffel Struggle '99. A web page will be available shortly.

04 Jun 1999

NICE Regular Membership Application page established. Regular Membership is free for 1999 and you might like to join if you:

• use Eiffel,
• want to promote Eiffel,
• want to cooperate with other Eiffel users,
• want to help in the creation of components and libraries, and/or
• want to participate in the future of Eiffel.

26 May 1999

MOTION 99-03: Regular Membership for 1999

Individual [Regular] membership be made available to anyone interested in Eiffel and the NICE objectives. The cost of Individual [Regular] membership be $0 (zero) and that a web form process be established by Geoff Eldridge to allow for Individual membership application.

24 Apr 1999

MOTION 99-01: Thanks to Eric Bezault

The Board of Directors of NICE thanks Eric Bezault for running the 1998 Eiffel "Class Struggle" which was an outstanding success. Following in Frieder's founding footsteps he performed an incredible amount work to convince people to become involved, publicising the contest, obtaining contributions impressive in both numbers and quality, organizing the evaluation process, and running the entire operation smoothly, convincingly and efficiently for the greatest benefit of the Eiffel community. Eric also added further rigour to the organisational framework which will allow for a more repeatable event.

24 Apr 1999

MOTION 99-02: Eiffel Struggle '99 Support

NICE will support a competition, hereafter referred to as the Eiffel Struggle (ES), patterned after Frieder Monninger's 1997 ES and Eric Bezault's 1998 ES which were both very successful competitions.

Franck Arnaud will act on NICE's behalf and will handle all the organizational details of the Struggle, from publicity to recruiting judges to notification of results from the NICE web page.

NICE will contribute prize money in the amount of $2000.