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The Free and Open-Source Developers' Meeting (FOSDEM) is an annual event held in Brussels, Belgium, in February. The 2006 edition will take place on Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th of February, 2006. Ada-Belgium has organized a series of presentations related to Ada, to be held in a dedicated developers' room, all day Sunday. Here is the program:
Jean-Pierre will put his well-known talent to good use, introducing Ada to beginning or experienced programmers alike.
Adacontrol is a tool that analyses Ada source text and verifies compliance with coding rules and guidelines. Adacontrol is Free Software written under contract with Eurocontrol, and takes advantage of ASIS, the standard interface that allows Ada programs to analyze Ada source text. Jean-Pierre will introduce Adacontrol, ASIS, and the business model that allows one to make a living writing Free Software.
Philippe Waroquiers leads software development of the ETFMS system at Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control agency with 34 member states. Software on which millions of travelers' lives each year depend is written in Ada using AdaCore's Free Software Ada compiler, GNAT Pro.
The Ada-related Eurocontrol CFMU papers that were mentioned during this presentation, are available as well: one is about migrating to a different Ada compiler, two others are about funded GNAT enhancements, and the final one is about migrating from a Unix to a Linux platform.
13:00 - 14:00 lunch break
Ludovic Brenta will explain his work as the main maintainer of Ada in Debian, and the policy that unites all Ada packages, thereby making Debian the best free Ada development platform in the world :) This will be an excellent opportunity for a tour of existing Free Software projects developed in Ada.
AdaCore is the company that offers technical support and consulting services around GNAT Pro, the professional version of the GNU project's Free Software Ada compiler. AdaCore is also the main developer of GNAT. The Ada Academic Initiative aims to encourage universities and other education institutions worldwide to use and teach Ada, by offering a broad range of services at no cost to professors and students. If possible, AdaCore will demonstrate the latest GNAT Programming Studio available with the GNAT GPL 2005 Edition.
An example of fruitful collaboration between academia and industry, PolyORB allows heterogeneous software components to communicate with one another by bridging various middleware technologies such as CORBA, MOM and the Ada Distributed Systems Annex (annex E).
All presentations will be in English, but most speakers also speak French. You may ask questions on comp.lang.ada, fr.comp.lang.ada, or join the AdaFOSDEM mailing list (in English). Attendance to FOSDEM is free, and no registration is necessary.
The announcement for this event is also available in formats suitable for printing and further distribution:
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 06:58:40 -0500
From: Clyde Roby <roby@IDA.ORG>
Subject: SIGAda and Conferences reminder
To: SIGADA-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
Message for December 2005:
Don't forget about our upcoming Ada-related conferences:
o SIGAda 2006
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
12-18 November 2006
http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2006/
o Ada-Europe 2006
Porto, Portugal
5-9 June 2006
http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2006.html or
http://www.hurray.isep.ipp.pt/ae2006/
o Systems and Software Technology Conference 2006 (SSTC 2006)
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
1-4 May 2006
http://www.stc-online.org/
o Ada UK Conference 2006
Manchester, UK
28 March 2006
http://www.ada-uk-conference.co.uk/
o FOSDEM 2006
Brussels, Belgium
25-26 February 2006 (full-day track on Ada on the 26th)
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060225-fosdem.html
and:
o SIGCSE (Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education) 2006
Houston, TX
1-5 March 2006
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~sigcse06/
o International Symposium on Secure Software Engineering
Washington, DC area, USA
13-15 March 2006
http://www.jmu.edu/iiia/issse/
o DASIA (DAta Systems In Aerospace) 2006
Berlin, Germany
22-25 May 2006
http://www.eurospace.org/
o ITiCSE (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education) 2006
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
26-28 June 2006
http://www.iticse06.cs.unibo.it/
o ITiCSE (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education) 2007
West Park Centre (Dundee), Dundee, Scotland
June 2007
o ITiCSE (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education) 2008
School of Industrial Engineering, Madrid, Spain
June 2008
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The textbook "Ada for Software Engineers", written by Professor
Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari of the Department of Science Teaching at the
Weizmann Institute of Science
(http://stwww.weizmann.ac.il/g-cs/benari), and originally published by
John Wiley & Sons in 1998, can now be downloaded for free for academic
research and teaching from
http://stwww.weizmann.ac.il/g-cs/benari/books/index.html
[this part of the message will be removed in 2006]
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Clyde Roby, SIGAda Secretary
From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada at FOSDEM 2006 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:43:27 +0100 The Free and Open-Source Developers' Meeting (FOSDEM) is an annual event held in Brussels, Belgium, in February. The 2006 edition will take place on Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th of February, 2006. Ada-Belgium has organised a series of presentations related to Ada, to be held in a dedicated developers' room, all day Sunday. Here is the program: 10:00 - 11:00 Jean-Pierre Rosen: Introduction to Ada Jean-Pierre will put his well-known talent to good use, introducing Ada to beginning or experienced programmers alike. 11:00 - 12:00 Jean-Pierre Rosen: Adacontrol Adacontrol is a tool that analyses Ada source text and verifies compliance with coding rules and guidelines. Adacontrol is Free Software written under contract with Eurocontrol, and takes advantage of ASIS, the standard interface that allows Ada programs to analyse Ada source text. Jean-Pierre will introduce Adacontrol, ASIS, and the business model that allows one to make a living writing Free Software. 12:00 - 13:00 Philippe Waroquiers: Use of Free Software in European Air Traffic Flow Management Philippe Waroquiers leads software development of the ETFMS system at Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control agency with 34 member states. Software on which millions of travellers' lives each year depend is written in Ada using AdaCore's Free Software Ada compiler, GNAT Pro. 13:00 - 14:00 lunch break 14:00 - 15:00 Ludovic Brenta: Ada in Debian Ludovic Brenta will explain his work as the main maintainer of Ada in Debian, and the policy that unites all Ada packages, thereby making Debian the best free Ada development platform in the world :) This will be an excellent opportunity for a tour of existing Free Software projects developed in Ada. 15:00 - 16:00 AdaCore: Ada Academic Initiative AdaCore is the company that offers technical support and consulting services around GNAT, the GNU project's free Ada compiler. AdaCore is also the main developer of GNAT. The Ada Academic Initiative aims to encourage universities and other education institutions worldwide to use and teach Ada, by offering a broad range of services at no cost to professors and students. If possible, AdaCore will demonstrate the latest GNAT Programming Studio with GNAT GPL 2005 Edition. 16:00 - 17:00 AdaCore: The PolyORB schizophrenic middleware An example of fruitful collaboration between academia and industry, PolyORB allows heterogeneous software components to communicate with one another by bridging various middleware technologies such as CORBA, MOM and the Ada Distributed Systems Annex (annex E). All presentations will be in English, but all speakers also speak French. You may ask questions on comp.lang.ada, fr.comp.lang.ada, or join the AdaFOSDEM mailing list (in English). More information: FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org AdaCore : http://www.adacore.com Free Software from AdaCore: http://libre.adacore.com (includes, among others, GNAT, GPS and PolyORB which will be the focus of some talks) Free Software from Adalog: http://www.adalog.fr/compo1.htm (includes, among others, AdaControl) Debian : http://www.debian.org Eurocontrol : http://www.eurocontrol.int Ada-Belgium : http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/ AdaFOSDEM mailing list, operated by Ada-Belgium: http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.ac.be/archives/adafosdem.html -- Ludovic Brenta.
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