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From: dirk@vana.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada,be.comp.os.linux,be.comp.programming
Subject: Ada-Belgium Spring 2011 Event, registration deadline 17 May
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 09:51:50 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven
Summary: Register now if you want to participate
Keywords: Ada,Debian,packaging,workshop,lunch,Ada-Belgium,GA,Brussels
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2nd Call for Participation
A d a - B e l g i u m S p r i n g 2 0 1 1 E v e n t
Sunday, May 22, 2011, 12:00-19:00
Brussels, Belgium
including at 14:30
2011 Ada-Belgium General Assembly
and at 15:30
Workshop on Creating Debian Packages of Ada Software
<http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html>
*** REGISTRATION DEADLINE 17 MAY ***
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Announcement
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The next Ada-Belgium event will take place on Sunday, May 22, 2011 in
Brussels.
For the fourth year in a row, Ada-Belgium decided to organize their
"Spring Event", which starts at noon, runs until 7pm, and includes an
informal lunch, a key signing party, the 18th General Assembly of the
organization, and a workshop on packaging Ada software for Debian
hosted by Ludovic Brenta, principal maintainer of Ada in Debian.
Schedule
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* 12:00 welcome and getting started (please be there!)
* 12:15 informal lunch
* 14:30 Ada-Belgium General Assembly
* 15:15 key signing party
* 15:30 workshop on creating Debian packages of Ada software
* 19:00 end
Participation
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Everyone interested (members and non-members alike) is welcome at any
or all parts of this event.
For practical reasons registration is required. If you would like to
attend, please send an email before Tuesday, May 17, to Dirk Craeynest
<Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be> with the subject "Ada-Belgium Spring
2011 Event", so you can get precise directions to the place of the
meeting.
If you are a member but have not renewed your affiliation yet, please
do so by paying the appropriate fee before the General Assembly (you
have also received a printed request via normal mail). If you are
interested to become a new member, please register by filling out the
2011 membership application form[1] and by paying the appropriate fee
before the General Assembly.
After payment you will receive a receipt from our treasurer and you
are considered a member of the organization for the year 2011 with
all member benefits[2]. Early renewal ensures you receive the full
Ada-Belgium membership benefits (including the Ada-Europe indirect
membership benefits package).
As mentioned at earlier occasions, we have a limited stock of
documentation sets and Ada related CD-ROMs that were distributed
at previous events. Most important are back issues of the Ada User
Journal[3]. These will be available on a first-come first-serve basis
at the General Assembly for current and new members.
[1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/forms/member-form11.html
[2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/member-benefit.html
[3] http://www.ada-europe.org/journal.html
Informal lunch
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The organization will provide food and beverage to all Ada-Belgium
members. Non-members who want to participate at the lunch are also
welcome: they can choose to join the organization or pay the sum of
15 Euros per person to the Treasurer of the organization.
General Assembly
----------------
All Ada-Belgium members have a vote at the General Assembly, can add
items to the agenda, and can be a candidate for a position on the
Board[4]. See the separate official convocation[5] for all details.
[4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/board/
[5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/11/110522-abga-conv.html
Key Signing Party
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Wouldn't it be nice if a majority of people used GPG to sign their
email every day so that you could send all non-signed email into the
spam bin? To make that dream come true, please join and expand the
global Web of Trust[6]!
What you should bring with you:
* an official ID card issued by your national government;
* your GPG key fingerprint (i.e. the output of gpg --fingerprint) on
small paper slips; a dozen copies or so should be enough.
What you will go home with:
* signatures from all other participants;
* automatic inclusion in the global Web of Trust;
* the ability to digitally sign or encrypt anything you like.
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Trust
Workshop: Packaging Ada Software for Debian
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Debian[7], "The Universal Operating System", is simply the best
platform for the enthusiast Ada developer. The features that
distinguish Debian from the rest are:
* a binary distribution that avoids the need to recompile Florist,
ASIS, GtkAda and all other Ada packages;
* a large number of packages intended for Ada developers;
* a clear and consistent policy[8] making all packages integrate
seamlessly and interoperate;
* outstanding support for the Ada part of the GNU Compiler Collection
(GCC) with unique innovations like libgnatvsn and libgnatprj not
found anywhere else;
* backports of bug fixes from the bleeding edge of GCC development
into the safe and stable compiler used for all Debian packages;
* support for more hardware architectures than any other Ada
distribution: alpha, amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-i386,
powerpc, s3980 and sparc (with mips, mipsel and ppc64 added
recently).
* a choice between "stable", "testing" and "unstable" versions of
Debian to suit personal preferences;
* Debian is the mother of Ubuntu, Knoppix and dozens of other
distributions which sometimes incorporate the Ada packages.
The goal of the workshop is to help people participate in this effort
to bring even more Ada software to Debian, or to help maintain the
existing packages.
What you should bring with you:
* your computer, already installed with Debian unstable or with an
unstable chroot already created (see below);
* network cables (or WiFi already configured);
* monitor and keyboard, if your computer is not a laptop;
* power cables;
* some Ada software you would like to see in Debian but is not there
(not necessarily software that you wrote; any software with a
license permitting redistribution in source and binary form will
do).
Note 1: if your computer does not run Debian as its main operating
system, you can install Debian in a virtual machine (VMWare or other),
in a jail on a FreeBSD system (Debian kfreebsd-i386), or in a chroot on
any other distribution. Danny Beullens will offer help and assistance
to those who would like to install Debian in a VMWare virtual machine.
Note 2: if you would like to install Debian as your main operating
system but are uncomfortable doing so by yourself, please get in
touch with your nearest Linux User Group (e.g. http://www.bxlug.be
in Brussels).
What Ludovic Brenta will do for you:
* set up a local Debian mirror, so you can install or upgrade
packages necessary for Ada package development;
* explain how to package Ada software for Debian;
* help you package your own program or library;
* answer questions about GNAT, GCC, Debian, etc.;
* if your package is suitable for inclusion in Debian, sponsor it for
you.
What you will go home with:
* your own .deb packages installed on your computer;
* better understanding of how packaging works;
* better understanding of the Debian Policy for Ada;
* if your package is suitable, your name on the Debian Package
Tracking System and your package on the next Debian DVD or CDROM
distribution.
[7] http://www.debian.org/
[8] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html
Directions
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To permit this more interactive and social format, the event takes
place at private premises in Brussels. As instructed above, please
inform us by e-mail if you would like to attend, and we'll provide you
precise directions to the place of the meeting. Obviously, the number
of participants we can accommodate is not unlimited, so don't delay...
Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels!
Dirk Craeynest, President Ada-Belgium
Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our
activities: AdaCore, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), and
Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).
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From: dirk@vana.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada,be.comp.os.linux,be.comp.programming
Subject: Ada-Belgium Spring 2011 Event incl. Debian packaging workshop
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 21:37:18 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven
Keywords: Ada,Debian,packaging,workshop,lunch,Ada-Belgium,GA
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A d a - B e l g i u m S p r i n g 2 0 1 1 E v e n t
Sunday, May 22, 2011, 12:00-19:00
Brussels, Belgium
including at 14:30
2011 Ada-Belgium General Assembly
and at 15:30
Workshop on Creating Debian Packages of Ada Software
<http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html>
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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Ada-Belgium Spring 2011 Event: 2011-05-22
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 02:22:23 -0700 (PDT)
[I realized only just now that this announcement was not posted here
on comp.lang.ada; various lists have received it already. I'm
reposting in a slightly altered form.]
The Ada-Belgium Spring 2011 Event is scheduled to take place on
Sunday, May 22, 2011 in the Brussels-Leuven area, from noon until 7
PM. For the 4th year in a row Ada-Belgium is organizing this kind of
event, consisting of the annual General Assembly of the organization,
together with plenty of time for social and technical interaction. The
exact location and program is subject to change depending on the
number and interest of people who attend.
The event is free for members of Ada-Belgium; non-members are welcome
but may have to participate in catering costs.
Registration is mandatory; if you would like to attend, please send a
mail to Dirk Craeynest <dirk.craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be>.
Key Signing Party
Wouldn't it be nice if a majority of people used GPG to sign their
email every day so that you could send all non-signed email into the
spam bin? To make that dream come true, please join and expand the
global Web of Trust!
What you should bring with you:
* an official ID card issued by your national government;
* your GPG key fingerprint (i.e. the output of gpg --fingerprint)
on small paper slips; a dozen copies or so should be enough.
What you will go home with:
* signatures from all other participants;
* automatic inclusion in the global Web of Trust;
* the ability to digitally sign or encrypt anything you like.
If there is a particular subject, technical or not, that you would
like to discuss, please say so*. You get bonus points if you can
prepare a small informal presentation of your subject of choice. If
nobody else steps forward, I propose another Ada in Debian workshop
where anyone interested can learn about packaging or using Ada
software for Debian.
* The Beaujolais Effect is such a nice subject to discuss that it is
included by default in all Spring Events :)
--
Ludovic Brenta.
From: Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be> Subject: Ada-Belgium Spring 2011 Event - preliminary announcement To: ada-belgium-info@cs.kuleuven.be Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:47:24 +0200 (CEST) Dear Ada-Belgium friend, For the 4th year in a row, Ada-Belgium is organizing a Spring Event consisting of the annual General Assembly of the organization, together with plenty of time for social and technical interactions. The event will take place in the Brussels-Leuven area on Sunday 22 May 2011, will start at noon and run until 7 PM. The exact location and program is subject to change depending on the number and interest of people who attend. Anyone can participate. The price is zero for members of Ada-Belgium and a minimal amount per person for non-members to cover the cost. Registration is required. If you would like to attend, please send an email to <Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be>. The past 3 Spring Events included technical workshops on packaging Ada software for Debian. For this year's Spring Event, we are soliciting proposals from speakers. Speakers need not be members of Ada-Belgium. Some prospective attendees would be interested in: - Ada for programming mobile phones (Maemo, Android, etc) - Ada on the Arduino open-source electronics platform - Ada on the Lego Mindstorms robotic platform - Ada applied to GPUs and in particular to multi GPUs - Graphics examples and demos However, no speaker has yet volunteered to actually do these presentations, examples or demos. If no other speakers come forth, Ludovic Brenta can host another Ada in Debian workshop. If you would like to speak at this event, say so now! If you would like to listen at this event, say so as well! Looking forward to your feedback. Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) _______________________________________________ Ada-Belgium-Info mailing list Ada-Belgium-Info@cs.kuleuven.be
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