Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce its

10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020

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

Saturday 1 February 2020

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus, Room AW1.125

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



Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe

All presentations and video recordings now on-line, see below.

FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ 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. The 2020 edition takes place on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February. It is free to attend and no registration is necessary.

In this edition, Ada-Belgium organizes once more a series of presentations related to the Ada Programming Language and Free or Open Software in a s.c. Developer Room. The "Ada DevRoom" at FOSDEM 2020 is held on the first day of the event, Saturday 1 February 2020. This year the Ada DevRoom has a total of 13 Ada-related presentations by 12 authors from 8 countries! (Plus 4 more in other DevRooms.) A mini-poster about the Ada DevRoom, as well as a one-page Call for Participation for the Ada DevRoom is available; they can be used to help announce the event, and to give an idea about its scope.

Ada Programming Language and Technology

Ada is a general-purpose programming language originally designed for safety- and mission-critical software engineering. It is used extensively in air traffic control, rail transportation, aerospace, nuclear, financial services, medical devices, etc. It is also perfectly suited for open source development.

Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is ever increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The latest Ada language definition was updated early 2016. Work on new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, and will result in a new Ada standard scheduled for 2021. Ada-related technology such as SPARK provides a solution for the safety and security aspects stated above. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest in Ada keeps further increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects have been started.

The Ada DevRoom aims to present the facilities offered by the Ada language (such as for object-oriented, multicore, or embedded programming) as well as some of the many exciting tools and projects using Ada. FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada technology can help to produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects.

Pictures/Video/Volunteers

If you come to the Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2020 and take pictures that you would like to share, feel free to contact us (see below) and we'll make them available in a special section here.

This year as well, audio/video equipment and network facilities are provided by the FOSDEM organizers, to enable recording and live streaming all DevRoom presentations. Volunteers "man" that equipment during the day. After postprocessing the recordings, links to them are made available via the "More information" entry for each presentation.

Additional volunteers to help with various logistic issues during the day are needed as well, such as monitoring room overflow and refusing entry when the room is too full, defragmenting the room in between presentations, helping speakers with microphone adjustments, monitoring the timeslots and warning speakers when they have to start or when they risk running out of time, as well as various practical issues that need to be handled ASAP when they occur.

If you'd like to help, please get in touch.

Ada Developer Room Presentations (room: AW1.125, 76 seats)

Ada-related Presentations in Other Developer Rooms

In addition to the above presentations in the Ada DevRoom, Ada-related presentations were also scheduled in other Developer Rooms.

Speakers (in order of appearance)

Dirk Craeynest - Ada-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 as well as direct members), Editorial Board member of the quarterly Ada User Journal, member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 (the 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 Int'l Conferences on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC), ACM SIGAda's Conferences and Workshops on High-Integrity Language Technology (HILT), and the Ada Developer Rooms at FOSDEM.

Update: due to a recent accident and urgent operation not able at the last minute to attend; Jean-Pierre Rosen takes over the coordination in the Ada DevRoom this year.

- Ada-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 a member of the ARG (Ada Rapporteur Group of ISO's WG9), 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 Gautier de Montmollin - Ada-Switzerland - gdemont@hotmail.com Gautier de Montmollin is a software developer. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. In his free time, he develops various software projects, mostly open-source.

- Ada-Switzerland - gdemont@hotmail.com Philippe Waroquiers - Eurocontrol, Belgium - philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int Philippe Waroquiers leads software development of the Flow Management and Flight Plan processing applications at Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control agency with 41 member states. During his free time, he participates in Valgrind development.

- Eurocontrol, Belgium - philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int Johannes Kliemann - Componolit, Germany - kliemann@componolit.com Johannes Kliemann is security architect at Componolit. He specialized in industrial automation and systems architecture and is interested in formal verification, operating systems development and embedded devices.

- Componolit, Germany - kliemann@componolit.com Alejandro R. Mosteo - Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain - amosteo@unizar.es Alejandro R. Mosteo is a professor of Automatic Systems at Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain. He has been using Ada since his university days, being now a cornerstone of his research on distributed algorithms for teams of mobile robots. He is also interested in autonomy for unmanned air vehicles.

- Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain - amosteo@unizar.es 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. The focus of his research is on algorithms and software to solve systems of polynomial equations, a problem in computational algebraic geometry.

- University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - janv@uic.edu Martin Stein - Genode Labs, Germany - martin.stein@genode-labs.com Martin is working at Genode Labs in Dresden (Germany). In the Genode Project, he has been especially involved in the custom microkernel, platform support, networking and testing. Currently his focus is on exploring and promoting the use of Ada and SPARK in the project. Furthermore, he is enthusiastic about Genode Labs' yearly Hack'n'Hike, the FOSDEM, and the Genode Community Summer.

- Genode Labs, Germany - martin.stein@genode-labs.com Pierre-Marie de Rodat - AdaCore, France - derodat@adacore.com Pierre-Marie joined AdaCore in 2013, after he got an engineering degree at EPITA (IT engineering school in Paris). He mainly works on GNATcoverage, and GCC.

- AdaCore, France - derodat@adacore.com Fabien Chouteau - AdaCore, France - chouteau@adacore.com Fabien joined AdaCore in 2010 after his engineering degree at the EPITA (Paris). He is involved in real-time, embedded and hardware simulation technology. Maker/DIYer in his spare time, his projects include electronics, music and woodworking.

More contact info: Twitter - @DesChips; Hackaday.io - https://hackaday.io/Fabien.C.

- AdaCore, France - chouteau@adacore.com Stephane Carrez - Twinlife, France - stephane.carrez@vacs.fr Graduated from ISEP (Paris) in 1990, Stéphane worked on real-time embedded systems as well as on high end application servers. Since 2000, Stéphane has also remained active in the Open Source community where he participated to the gcc, gdb and binutils development on the 68HC11 toolchain. Since 2009, he has created several Ada Open Source projects showcasing his Java J2EE expertise in the Ada community. His interests include systems architecture, software design, security, performance and... coding.

- Twinlife, France - stephane.carrez@vacs.fr Riccardo Bernardini - University of Udine, Italy - riccardo.bernardini@uniud.it I was born, in a CS sense, in the '80s with a Spectrum that initiated me to BASIC and Assembler, while, at the same time, I was learning FORTRAN at school. Now (40 years later) I do research in signal processing, and code in Matlab (octave, actually) and Ada and I have a sensitive tooth for buggy software (that is a side effect of coding in Ada). I am an Aggr. Prof. in digital signal processing (DSP) at the University of Udine. My research experience is centered mainly around DSP, especially image and video processing, multimedia coding (including exotic stuff like redundancy coding, compressed sensing, distributed coding), wavelets and filter banks. I also worked in non-strictly DSP-related fields like chaotic systems and P2P video streaming. Recently I went "down to silicon" working on Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF). Open source user since the beginning, I have few projects of my own and every now and then I contributed to few open source projects.

- University of Udine, Italy - riccardo.bernardini@uniud.it Tomasz Maluszycki - Poland - darkestkhan@gmail.com Tomasz Konstanty vel 'darkestkhan' Maluszycki is software developer with nearly a decade of experience in use of Ada. In his free time he writes small programs to scratch whatever itch needs scratching.

- Poland - darkestkhan@gmail.com Tobias Reiher - Componolit, Germany Tobias Reiher is security architect at Componolit. He is interested in systems security and focuses on the specification and verification of communication protocols. Previously, he did research on compiler-based isolation of security-critical application parts and secure cloud applications based on trusted execution environments. He has practical experience in implementing communication security in high-assurance systems.

- Componolit, Germany Alexander Senier - Componolit, Germany Alexander Senier is founder and CEO of Componolit, a company dedicated to the development of highly trustworthy systems. Since he started programming, he has been looking for concepts, tools and technologies to develop better software. Consequently, he is a strong advocate of component-based architectures and has used SPARK as his preferred language for more than a decade. Componolit produces open source libraries and tools for building security-critical components and provides consulting to customers in the areas of high security, mobile security and industrial IoT.

Starting points for further information

Acknowledgements -

10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020

Subject: Thanks for presenting/helping at the FOSDEM 2020 AdaDevRoom To: [presenters] Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 15:30:56 +0100 (CET) cc: [helpers] Dear presenters and helpers at the 10th Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2020, I'd like to thank you for presenting at our Ada DevRoom and for the help offered: it was really appreciated! When it became clear that after my accident and operation I would not be able to attend FOSDEM 2020, I contacted various people to distribute responsibilities and to handle various tasks. Most reacted promptly and positively! First of all: a big "thank you" to Jean-Pierre Rosen, who agreed to take over my role during the day: he gave the traditional introduction at the start, introduced the speakers, managed the Q&A parts, helped speakers with technical issues, and overall coordinated everything. Jean-Pierre also brought spare copies of the Ada User Journal, and printed various documents I had prepared (see Ada-Belgium's event page under the "Welcome to the Ada DevRoom" heading). Second, thanks to the speakers! Thanks (in order of appearance) Jean-Pierre Rosen, Gautier de Montmollin, Philippe Waroquiers, Johannes Kliemann, Alejandro Mosteo, Jan Verschelde, Martin Stein, Pierre-Marie de Rodat, Fabien Chouteau, Stephane Carrez, Riccardo Bernardini, and Tomasz Maluszycki, for preparing and presenting your talk(s). Your effort is most appreciated! Also thanks to Tobias Reiher, Fabien Chouteau, Johannes Kliemann, and Alexander Senier, for proposing and presenting 4 additional Ada/SPARK-related talks in other DevRooms. Third, thanks to all volunteers at the Ada DevRoom! Rob Veenker and Jeffrey Carter, who manned the camera for the live streaming and recording of the Ada DevRoom talks. Vinzent Höfler, who managed the timing of the presentations and warned speakers of the time remaining, to ensure they started on time (but not too early) and finished within their time-slot. Kees de Lezenne Coulander, who donated 3 copies of the new 'Beginning Ada Programming' book by Anthony T. Shvets, for a raffle at the end of the "Introduction to Ada" talk. Rob Veenker again, who took the traditional "speakers group picture". Ludovic Brenta, who monitored room overflow and refused entry when the room was too full, organized the sandwich supply for those who ordered them, and made the reservation for the "Adaists dinner" in the evening. Plus others I might have forgotten. And last but not least, all the FOSDEM organizers and volunteers! In record time, all relevant material about the presentations has been put online. Slides were already made available on Ada-Belgium's event page on the day of the DevRoom. The FOSDEM staff very quickly provided the raw video recordings for review, and after a collective effort that job is now done as well. Videos are available via a link in the "More information" section of each talk on Ada-Belgium's event page. A separate announcement about this is posted to a wider audience. During the event, several pictures were distributed via social media (mainly Twitter) and will be uploaded later. Additional pictures taken before/at/after the Ada DevRoom are most welcome (from inside the DevRoom, but also on related topics such as the AW Building or any activities involving "Adaists"). Either send them to me, or point me to a URL where they can be retrieved. I'll collect the available material and post a selection later in a "picture gallery" on the event's web-page. I hope you had an interesting Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2020. Thanks again for all help, and see you at some future event! Dirk Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9)

Draft Schedule -

10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020

Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 13:08:52 +0100 From: Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@CS.KULEUVEN.BE> Subject: Proposed schedule for Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2020 To: <ADAFOSDEM@LS.KULEUVEN.BE> Hello everyone, After behind-the-scenes e-mail interactions with potential presenters for the Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 on Saturday February 1, and lots of other work, finally here is an overview of the current status. As explained before, to abide to FOSDEM's requirements for easier flows between devrooms and streaming of presentations, as well as for easier schedulability, all Ada DevRoom presentations start at the hour or half hour, with 10 minutes in between for switching. This results in speaking slots of 15 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. FOSDEM requires all DevRooms on Saturday to start between 10u30 and 11u00 and to run until between 18u00 and 19u00, so this offers at least 7 and at most 8.5 schedulable hours. We were pleased to receive various proposals, not only from familiar names, but also from people who never submitted to the Ada DevRoom before. Many proposals/ideas were considered, but in the end some didn't make it, mainly due to too busy agendas, or to conflicting commitments. We got a lot of proposals and accepted as many as possible, which means that we have a *full schedule*: 13 presentations by 12 authors in 4 one-hour slots and 9 half-hour slots, hence 8.5 of the maximum of 8.5 schedulable hours! The current list of presentations is as follows. ---start-of-schedule--------------------------------------------------- Ada Developer Room (AW1.125, 76 seats, 10:30-19:00 = max. 8.30 hours) ------------------ 10:00-10:30 (before Ada DevRoom program starts) Arrival & Informal Discussions 10:30-10:35 Welcome to the Ada DevRoom Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium 10:35-11:20 ("long slot") An Introduction to Ada for Beginning and Experienced Programmers Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog, France 11:30-11:50 HAC: the Compiler which will Never Become Big Gautier de Montmollin, Ada-Switzerland 12:00-12:50 ("long slot") Tracking Performance of a Big Application from Dev to Ops Philippe Waroquiers, Eurocontrol, Belgium 13:00-13:20 Cappulada: What we've Learned Johannes Kliemann, Componolit, Germany 13:30-13:50 Programming ROS2 Robots with RCLAda Alejandro R. Mosteo, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain 14:00-14:50 ("long slot") Live Demo of Ada's Distribution Features Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France 15:00-15:20 Writing Shared Memory Parallel Programs in Ada Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 15:30-15:50 Spunky: a Genode Kernel in Ada/SPARK Martin Stein, Genode Labs, Germany 16:00-16:50 ("long slot") Alire: Ada Has a Package Manager Alejandro R. Mosteo, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain Pierre-Marie de Rodat, Fabien Chouteau, Adacore, France 17:00-17:20 Protect Sensitive Data with Ada Keystore Stéphane Carrez, Twinlife, France 17:30-17:50 EUgen: a European Project Proposal Generator Riccardo Bernardini, University of Udine, Italy 18:00-18:20 On Rapid Application Development in Ada Tomasz Maluszycki, Poland 18:30-18:50 Ada-TOML: TOML parser for Ada Pierre-Marie de Rodat, AdaCore, France ---end-of-schedule----------------------------------------------------- In addition to the above, there is one more concrete proposal for a short presentation that due to lack of time we can not include in the schedule. I propose to keep it as backup; it might be used if one of the other speakers would not make it to the DevRoom on Feb 1: Protypo: a Very Ada-ish Template Expander Riccardo Bernardini, University of Udine, Italy The above schedule mainly lists the various topics and speakers, and the proposed time slot length. The order isn't (fully) final yet, though the time slots preferably should remain as is (due to logistic limitations of the booklet production; deadline soon but not known yet). So the only changes of time slots should be either swaps of "long" presentations, or swaps of "short" presentations. Once more, this year's schedule does NOT allow us to have our half an hour of informal discussions, nor a break somewhere in the middle. It will be very important to not overrun the allocated time slots, to ensure there are 10 minute gaps between the presentations, to allow speakers as well as some of the audience to swap. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. Please react ASAP, because not much time remains to finalize the program. [...] !!! NOTE to all potential ATTENDEES !!! In 2020 as well, audio/video equipment and network facilities will be provided by the FOSDEM organizers, to enable recording and live streaming all DevRoom presentations. Our DevRoom NEEDS volunteers to set up the audio/video equipment in the morning, to monitor recordings during the day, and to wrap up in the evening. Please get in touch if you are willing to help with (some of) these (or other) tasks! Finally, as you know the AdaFOSDEM mailing list is available for organizational issue, so feel free to use it! For more info: http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html That's it for now! Dirk

2nd Call for Presentations -

10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020

From: dirk@orka.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 - deadline Mon 25 Nov 2019 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:19:19 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, KU Leuven Summary: Now is the time to submit a presentation proposal! Keywords: Ada,open source,free software,technical presentations,FOSDEM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call for Presentations 10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 Saturday 1 February 2020, Brussels, Belgium www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe Deadline Monday 25 November 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th Ada Developer Room will take place on Saturday 1 February 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The Call for Presentations is still open: the deadline is Monday 25 November 2019. 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 inviting 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! An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Speaking slots are 15 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each), and/or an informal discussion session. Please provide a proposed title, the preferred length, plus an abstract and a short bio similar in style as on the program for previous Ada DevRooms, see for example [1]. We need that to put the draft program together by the end of November. Please react ASAP, and submit proposals by November 25, 2019, or contact us if you need more time. We're looking forward to your proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) PS: The full Call for Presentations is posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site (see URL above). [1] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html> #AdaFOSDEM #AdaProgramming #AdaBelgium #AdaEurope #FOSDEM2020 (V20191117.1)

Call for Presentations -

10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020

From: dirk@orka.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020, Brussels, Belgium Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 06:43:59 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, KU Leuven Summary: Plan now to attend! Or even better: propose a presentation! Keywords: Ada,open source,free software,technical presentations,FOSDEM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 Saturday 1 February 2020, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 1 February 2020 at FOSDEM 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Our 10th 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 early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. No registration is necessary. 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 Programming Language and Technology --------------------------------------- Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is ever increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The latest Ada language definition was updated early 2016. Work on new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, and will result in a new Ada standard scheduled for 2021. Ada-related technology such as SPARK provides a solution for the safety and security aspects stated above. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest in Ada keeps further increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects have been started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada technology can help to produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects. At previous FOSDEM events, the Ada-Belgium non-profit organization organized successful Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and full day programs in 2012-2016 [6-10], and in 2018-2019 [12]. An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Our proposal for another dedicated Ada DevRoom was accepted, and now work continues to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8.5 schedulable hours between 10:30 and 19:00 in one of the rooms which accommodate from 59 to 85 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [13], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various forums, lists and newsgroups. Call for Presentations ---------------------- We would like to schedule technical presentations, tutorials, demos, live performances, project status reports, discussions, etc, in the Ada Developer Room. 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 [14] 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 inviting 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 15 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each), and/or an informal discussion session. Note that all talks will be streamed live (audio+video) and recorded, for remote as well as later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. By submitting a proposal, you agree to being recorded and streamed, and agree the content of your talk will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content, a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [14], and submit your proposal there. If needed, feel free to contact us at ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be. Please include: - your name, affiliation, contact info; - the title of your talk (be descriptive and creative); - a short descriptive and attractive abstract; - potentially pointers to more information; - a short bio and photo. See programs of previous Ada DevRooms (URLs below) for presentation examples, as well as for the kind of info we need. We'd like to put together a draft schedule by end of November. So, please act ASAP, the sooner the better, but definitely by November 25, 2019 at the latest. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [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://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html [10] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html [11] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html [12] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html [13] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html [14] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (V20191026.1)

Preliminary Announcement -

10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020

On Saturday, February 1, 2020, Ada-Belgium organizes once more a full-day Ada Developer Room at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2020) in Brussels, Belgium.

Check here (*) shortly for more information.

(*) http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html

Proposal for Ada Developer Room Accepted -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2020)

Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 14:51:52 +0200 From: Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be> Subject: FOSDEM 2020 - Ada DevRoom accepted! To: ADAFOSDEM@LS.KULEUVEN.BE Hi all, A quick message: our proposal for another Ada DevRoom (the 10th!) has been accepted! It's scheduled on Saturday 1 February 2020. See below for a list of all DevRooms. More later, Dirk ----- Forwarded message from Johan Van de Wauw ----- To: devroom-managers@lists.fosdem.org From: Johan Van de Wauw <johanvdw@fosdem.org> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 22:38:34 +0200 Subject: [devroom-managers] List of devrooms for 2020 This is the mailing list for organisers of developer rooms for FOSDEM 2020. Note that even though we are using some extra rooms, we still could not accept a number of good proposals. These will be considered again next year if they apply. The list of devrooms for 2020 (with the number of days assigned) is as below: 1 Ada 0.5 Backup and Recovery 0.5 Beam, the Erlang VM 1 BSD 0.5 Coding For Language Communities 0.5 Collaborative Information and Content Management Applications 1 Community 1 Containers 1 Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 1 Debugging Tools 1 Decentralized Internet and Privacy 0.5 Dependency Management 1 Distributions 0.5 DNS 1 Embedded, Mobile and Automotive 1 Free Java 1 Free Software Radio 1 Free Tools and Editors 1 Game Development 1 Geospatial 1 Go 0.5 Graph Systems and Algorithms 1 Graphics 1 Open Document Editors 1 Hardware Enablement 0.5 Hardware-aided Trusted Computing 1 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science 1 Infra Management Devroom 1 Internet of Things 1 JavaScript 1 Kotlin 1 Legal and Policy Issues 1 LLVM 1 Microkernels and Component-based OS 1 Minimalistic Languages 1 Monitoring and Observability 1 Mozilla 1 MySQL, MariaDB and Friends 1 Open Media 1 Open Source Computer Aided Modeling and Design 1 Open Source Design 0.5 Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader 1 Open Source Science and Research Tools 1 PostgreSQL 1 Python 1 Quantum Computing 1 Real Time Communications 0.5 Retrocomputing 0.5 RISC-V 1 Rust 1 Security 1 Software Defined Networking 1 Software Defined Storage 1 Testing and Automation 1 Virtualization and IaaS 0.5 Web Performance A few devrooms had more than one submission or were merged - we will send follow-up emails where this happened and isn't obvious. The names listed above are not yet final - there's still time to request adjustments. [...] More emails will follow with further instructions. Johan [...] ----- End of forwarded message from Johan Van de Wauw -----

Proposal for Ada Developer Room Submitted -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2020)

From: Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be> Subject: Ada at FOSDEM 2020? - proposal submitted To: ADAFOSDEM@listserv.icts.KULEUVEN.BE Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 08:02:06 +0200 (CEST) Hello again, Thanks to those who provided feedback, especially on such short notice. I have just submitted our proposal for another Ada DevRoom. See below for the full info. My browser told me: Thank you for your submission! You should receive a confirmation email soon. If you don't, please contact devrooms@fosdem.org. Your proposal will be reviewed and we will inform you if it is accepted or not via email on the date mentioned. Keep an eye on our website for any announcements! In the meantime I received the promised confirmation email as well. Later, Dirk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Project details ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Title of devroom: Ada Developer Room ------- Elaborate description of proposed devroom (including possible topics): DevRoom description: Ada for Free and Open Source Software The Ada-Belgium non-profit organization organized successful Ada Developer Rooms at FOSDEM 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2009, and 2006 (1 day each, except in 2009 which was 2 days), see URLs [1-9]. We also submitted proposals for FOSDEM 2017, 2011 and 2010, see URLs [10-13]. Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is ever increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The latest Ada language definition was updated early 2016. Work on new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, and will result in a new Ada standard scheduled for 2021. Ada-related technology such as SPARK provides a solution for the safety and security aspects stated above. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest in Ada keeps further increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects have been started. Therefore, we would like to organize a new Ada DevRoom in 2020. If accepted, we intend to schedule a full program of presentations, demonstrations, live performances, discussions, similar to our Ada DevRooms in previous years. As is clear from our previous Ada DevRooms, as well as from our proposals in other years, we always have enough candidate presentations, topics, speakers, for a full and interesting program. Various proposals for FOSDEM were made earlier on our dedicated AdaFOSDEM mailing list, as well as in off-line discussions. If our DevRoom proposal is accepted, we are confident that we can put together an exciting full-day program that will attract once more lots of interest among the FOSDEM participants. ------- Why does it fit FOSDEM? FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada technology can help to produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects. ------- Preferred slot: Full day ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Primary contact First name: Dirk Last name: Craeynest E-mail: Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be Submitter's affinity to the topic of the devroom: Long time user and promoter of Ada language and technology, first in an academic and then in an industrial context. Active in various Ada-related organizations, among others president of Ada-Belgium vzw/asbl and vice-president of Ada-Europe ivzw/aisbl. Coordinates Ada DevRoom organization. Secondary contact First name: Jean-Pierre Last name: Rosen E-mail: rosen@adalog.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Relevant URLs: DevRoom related URLs: [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html [2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html [3] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html [4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html [5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [6] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html [8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [9] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [10] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/17/170204-fosdem.html [11] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/11/110205-fosdem-req.pdf [12] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/11/110205-fosdem.html [13] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/10/100206-fosdem.html ------- Special requirements: Preferred day: Saturday ------------------------------------------

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