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Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce its

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2009
Ada at the Free and Open-Source Software Developers' European Meeting

Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 February 2009
Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Solbosch Campus, Room AW1.124
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt Laan 50, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe

All presentations and some pictures now available on-line, see below.


[Ada coin] The Free and Open-Source Developers' Meeting (FOSDEM) is an annual event held in Brussels, Belgium, in February. The 2009 edition will take place on Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th of February. Ada-Belgium has organized a series of presentations related to Ada, to be held in a dedicated Developer Room, on both days of the event.

Ada is a general-purpose language originally designed for safety- and mission-critical software engineering. It is used extensively in air traffic control, rail transportation, aerospace, nuclear, financial services and medical devices. The new Ada 2005 standard which was published by ISO in 2007, starts to spread thanks to the advent of its first full implementation which is none other than the GNU Compiler Collection (GNAT).

This DevRoom aims to present a couple of the possibilities offered by the Ada Language (object-oriented, multi-core, embedded programming) and some of the very useful existing tools (GNAT Programming Studio, GNATBench, ...).

[In Cooperation with Ada-Europe]

Pictures

Some pictures related to the Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2009 are available. If you were there and have pictures you would like to share, then feel free to contact me (see below).

Presentations on Saturday 7 February 2009

Presentations on Sunday 8 February 2009

Speakers (in order of appearance)

More information


Proposal for Developer Room Accepted -
Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2009)


From: dirk@heli.cs.kuleuven.be (Dirk Craeynest)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada
Subject: Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2009
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:15:53 +0100 (CET)
Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven
Summary: Plan now to attend!
Keywords: Ada,open source,free software,technical presentations,FOSDEM

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                        Preliminary Announcement

                   Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2009

                 7 - 8 February 2009, Brussels, Belgium

http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html

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FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting,
is a free and non-commercial two-day event organized each February in
Brussels, Belgium.

We are very pleased to announce that the organizers of FOSDEM 2009 have
accepted our proposal for an Ada Developer Room at the next event, i.e.
on Sat 7 and Sun 8 February 2009.

The full list of presentations and speakers is available on the Ada
at FOSDEM 2009 web-page.  More details, such as the concrete schedule,
will follow later.

We hope to see many of you there!

Valentine, Ludovic, Dirk
The FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium

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Proposal for Developer Room -
Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2009)


Ada-Belgium made a proposal for a Developer Room to hold presentations on Ada and related technologies at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM 2009) on 7-8 February 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.

At the time of submission (Fri Nov 21 2008) 7 speakers from various origins (universities, compiler assessment laboratory, companies) and countries (Belgium, France, and Spain) have confirmed their will to participate to the event, and another one still had to ensure his contribution. They propose to give talks about Ada and related Free Software technologies. Ada-Belgium coordinates their joint DevRoom request.

At FOSDEM 2006 the full-day Ada DevRoom received a warm welcome from its public (up to 65 participants at several presentations). We hope to have this opportunity again, especially considering recent developments. The use of the new Ada 2005 standard, which was published by ISO in 2007, starts to spread thanks to the advent of its first full implementation, which is none other than the GNU Compiler Collection (GNAT).

We present 11 talks below (ordered by related themes). They would be enough to fill a DevRoom for the entire duration of the FOSDEM event (i.e. Saturday 7th from 12:00 to 18:00 and Sunday 8th from 10:00 to 17:00).

http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming
http://www.adaic.com

Presentations

Speakers


Call for Interest -
Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2009)


From: dirk@heli.cs.kuleuven.be (Dirk Craeynest)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada
Subject: Ada at FOSDEM 2009 - Call for Interest
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:56:35 +0200 (CEST)
Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven
Summary: Please act ASAP and definitely before before 2008-11-15
Keywords: Ada, open source, free software, technical presentations, FOSDEM

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                           Call for Interest

                    A d a  at  F O S D E M   2 0 0 9

                    February 2009, Brussels, Belgium

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FOSDEM [1], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European
Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day event organized each
February in Brussels, Belgium.

The goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source developers and
communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be
informed about the latest developments in the Free Software and Open
Source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations by Free
Software and Open Source project leaders and committers on various
topics, and to promote the development and the benefits of Free
Software and Open Source solutions.

In a Developer Room at FOSDEM 2006, Ada-Belgium [2] organized a very
well attended full-day lecture program [3].

Each year the number of applications for DevRooms outnumbers the
available space, presenting the organizers with a difficult selection
[4].  For FOSDEM 2008, Ada-Belgium proposed another day of Ada
presentations, but the organizers felt there was too little of an
audience.  We intend to propose again for FOSDEM 2009, and need to
show that this would attract sufficient interest.

To increase our chances to be allocated a DevRoom, Ada-Belgium calls
on you to:

- Speak loudly about the fact that you want to see Ada presentations
  at FOSDEM by sending email to info@fosdem.org (please CC
  ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be).

- Visit FOSDEM's brainstorm page [5] and propose Ada-related keynote
  speakers and topics (please let us know if you do).

- For bonus points, inform us at ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be about
  specific presentations you would like to hear in an Ada DevRoom.

- For more bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [6]
  to discuss and help organize the details.

- For even more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list
  is the place to be!

We look forward to lots of feedback!  Please act ASAP and definitely
before November 15.

The FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium

PS: This Call for Interest is also available in PDF format [7]
suitable for printing (152 KB) and in plain text format [8] for
further distribution (6 KB).

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[1] http://www.fosdem.org
[2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium
[3] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html
[4] http://archive.fosdem.org/2008/call_for_devrooms
[5] http://www.fosdem.org/2009/brainstorm
[6] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html
[7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem-cfi.pdf
[8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem-cfi.txt

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Last update: 2009/02/11.

Dirk Craeynest