Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce its

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2014

Ada at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting

Saturday 1 February 2014

Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Solbosch Campus, Room K.4.601

Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt Laan 50, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium



Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe

All available presentations now on-line, see below.



The Free and Open Source Developers' Meeting (FOSDEM) is an annual event held in Brussels, Belgium, in February. The 2014 edition will take place on Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd of February. Ada-Belgium has organized a series of presentations related to Ada, to be held in a dedicated Developer Room, on the first day 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. It is also perfectly suited for open source development. The latest Ada standard was published by ISO in December 2012. As with the Ada 1995 and Ada 2005 standards, the new Ada 2012 standard already spreads thanks to the availability of its first full implementation which is none other than the GNU Compiler Collection (GNAT).

This DevRoom aims to present the possibilities offered by the Ada Language (object-oriented, multicore, embedded programming) as well as some of the many exciting tools and projects using Ada. A one-page call for participation is available giving an overview of the Ada DevRoom program; it can be used to help announcing the event, or to give an idea about its scope.

Pictures/video

If you were at the Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2014 and took pictures that you would like to share, feel free to contact me (see below) and we'll make them available in a special section here.

Ada Developer Room Presentations (K.4.601, 85 seats)

Speakers (in order of appearance)

Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium, Belgium - Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be Dirk Craeynest has been involved with the Ada programming language and related technology for more than 3 decades. After obtaining degrees in mathematics and computer science, he was involved in research and teaching at the Computer Science Department of the Leuven university. Since 1995, he works mainly on large Ada-related software projects in industry.

Dirk is co-founder and President of the Ada-Belgium Organization, Vice-President of Ada-Europe (the federation of national Ada organizations), Editorial Board member of the quarterly Ada User Journal, member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 (working group managing the Ada programming language standard), and elected officer in the Executive Committee of ACM SIGAda (ACM's Special Interest Group in Ada). He is involved in the organization of several annual international events, such as Ada-Europe's Conferences on Reliable Software Technologies and ACM SIGAda's Conferences on High-Integrity Language Technology.

- Ada-Belgium, Belgium - Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog, France - rosen@adalog.fr Jean-Pierre Rosen graduated from ENST (French engineering school) in 1975, and obtained PhD in 1986. He started as a software engineer at the computing center of ENST, then as Professor, where he was responsible for the teaching of Software Engineering and Ada. He has formed Adalog, a company specialized in high level training, consultancy and software development in the fields of Ada and associated technologies (software engineering, object oriented methodologies).

Jean-Pierre Rosen is Chairman of the AFNOR (French standardization body) group for Ada and a member of the ARG (Ada Rapporteur Group), the group of experts in charge of maintenance and evolution of the Ada language. He was a member of the expert team who controlled the development of the validation suite for Ada 95. He is the author of "Methodes de Genie Logiciel avec Ada 95" (Software Engineering Methods with Ada 95) and "HOOD: an industrial approach for software development".

- Adalog, France - rosen@adalog.fr Ludovic Brenta - Debian Project, Belgium - ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org Ludovic Brenta has been programming since 1989 and using GNU/Linux since 1994.

He graduated from INSA Lyon in industrial engineering in 1996 and has been a software engineer ever since. In 2002, dissatisfied with the languages he used, he started looking for safer alternatives and discovered Ada, which he taught himself with help from the Free Software community. He started giving back in 2003 when he adopted most of the Ada packages in Debian and has been an official Debian Developer since 2006.

- Debian Project, Belgium - ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org José F. Ruiz - AdaCore, France - ruiz@adacore.com José F. Ruiz is a Senior Software Engineer who joined AdaCore in 2002. He received his Ph.D. Degree from the Technical University of Madrid for his work in the field of real-time and multimedia systems, including scheduling policies and resource management in operating systems. He is a specialist in embedded real-time high-integrity systems in Ada, an area where he has been working for more than 15 years, having authored/coauthored over 30 papers in those domains.

- AdaCore, France - ruiz@adacore.com Jacob Sparre Andersen - JSA Research & Innovation, Denmark - jacob@jacob-sparre.dk Jacob Sparre Andersen holds a PhD in experimental physics from the Niels Bohr Institute. After his PhD he has worked in bioinformatics, taught physics, statistics and software engineering, and worked in an investment bank.

His current activities include writing telephone reception management software, creating models of investments and the financial market, teaching programmers how to use Ada 2012 -- and finding bugs in Java programs.

Jacob has his own consulting company -- Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation -- and is a co-founder of AdaHeads K/S.

- JSA Research & Innovation, Denmark - jacob@jacob-sparre.dk Didier Willame - Argonauts-IT, Belgium - didier.willame@argonauts-it.net Didier Willame graduated in Mathematics from UMH (Belgium). He is a software engineer with more than 15-years of experience in a wide range of industries (air traffic control, telecommunications, railway transportation, networks, 3D gesture recognition, finance, medicine and e-government). He is also a lecturer at ESI (Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique, Belgium) where he teaches mathematics, statistics and computer science. Moreover, Didier leads all operations at Argonauts-IT Ltd. Finally, his centers of interest include formal proofs of computer source code.

- Argonauts-IT, Belgium - didier.willame@argonauts-it.net Jan Verschelde - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - janv@uic.edu Jan Verschelde obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 1996 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven). After postdoctoral fellowships at the KU Leuven, Michigan State University, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, he became a professor in the department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2000.

His main research focus is the development of algorithms and software for solving systems of polynomial equations, an important topic in computational algebraic geometry, which led to the software package PHCpack. Based on polyhedral homotopy continuation methods, PHCpack offers a blackbox solver to approximate all isolated solutions of polynomial systems. In joint work with Andrew Sommese (University of Notre Dame) and Charles Wampler (General Motors Research Labs), new homotopy algorithms were developed for a numerical irreducible decomposition of algebraic sets, in an area which is often called numerical algebraic geometry. PHCpack is one of the optional components of the mathematical software system Sage.

His current research interests include tropical algebraic geometry and the application of general purpose graphics compute processors to path tracking algorithms. At UIC, Jan Verschelde teaches introductory courses to Python programming, symbolic-numeric computing, and supercomputing. For more info, visit http://www.math.uic.edu/~jan/. The source of PHCpack is at https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack/.

- University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - janv@uic.edu Pavel Zhukov - Fedora Project - landgraf@fedoraproject.org Pavel Zhukov is a packager and maintainer of the Ada developer tools in the Fedora Linux distribution. The main purpose of the packaging is involving new developers to the Ada development from the wide Fedora community.

- Fedora Project - landgraf@fedoraproject.org John Marino - FreeBSD Project - marino@FreeBSD.org John Marino is a developer with commit privileges on the FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, and NetBSD projects. He maintains a set of patches that allow GNAT to build and perfectly pass the compiler testsuite on all the BSDs, including OpenBSD, as well as Solaris, and Android. This project is documented on http://www.dragonlace.net. John maintains an increasing number of Ada packages on several of these platforms.

John has served in the US Air Force, worked as a life support systems flight controller of the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center, ISS operations at the German Spaceflight Center near Munich, Automated Transfer Vehicle operations in Toulouse on behalf of the European Space Agency, and currently works as Space domain consultant for Booz & Company's Amsterdam office. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering for both Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

Starting points for further information

Reminder -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2014)

From: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: Reminder - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2014, Brussels, Belgium Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Keywords: Ada,open source,free software,technical presentations,FOSDEM Reminder! The Call for Presentations for the Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2014 is still open. From the CfP: Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're looking for proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots are 25 or 50 minutes, including Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). Looking forward to many proposals. Please submit by this weekend! Dirk Dirk Craeynest <dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be.> wrote: [ 95 lines deleted; see original version below -- dc ]

Call for Presentations -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2014)

From: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2014, Brussels, Belgium Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, KU Leuven Summary: Plan now to attend! Or even better: propose a talk! Keywords: Ada,open source,free software,technical presentations,FOSDEM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Announcement and Call for Presentations 5th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2014 Saturday 1 February 2014, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 1 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. This Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. General information ------------------- FOSDEM [3], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized each February in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ participants from all over the world. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. Ada Developer Room ------------------ At previous FOSDEM events, Ada-Belgium has organized very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and full day programs in 2012 [6] and 2013 [7]. One of our important goals is to present Ada also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Our proposal for another dedicated Ada DevRoom was accepted recently, and now work continues to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8 schedulable hours between 10:00 and 18:00 in a room which holds up to 80 participants. More information will be posted later on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [8], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various lists and newsgroups. Call for presentations ---------------------- Ada-Belgium calls on you to: - inform us at ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be about specific presentations you would like to hear in this Ada DevRoom; - for bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [9] to discuss and help organize the details; - for more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're looking for proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots are 25 or 50 minutes, including Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). We'd like to put together a draft schedule by the end of November. So, please act ASAP, and definitely before November 30, 2013. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium [2] http://www.ada-europe.org [3] https://fosdem.org [4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [6] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html [7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [9] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (V20131020.1)

Preliminary Announcement -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2014)

On Saturday, February 1, 2014, Ada-Belgium organizes once more an Ada Developer Room at the Free and Open-Source Developers' Meeting (FOSDEM'2014). Check here shortly for more information.

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Last update: 2014/02/04.