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.



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, ...).

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)

Dirk Craeynest Dirk Craeynest has been involved with the Ada programming language and related technology since almost 3 decades. After obtaining degrees in mathematics and computer science, he did research and teaching at the Computer Science Department of the Leuven university. Since 1995, he mainly works on large Ada-related software projects in industry. Dirk is co-founder and President of the Ada-Belgium Organization, Vice-President of Ada-Europe (federation of national Ada organizations), Editorial Board member of the quarterly Ada User Journal, head of the Belgian Delegation in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 (working group managing the Ada programming language standard), and 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 Ada and Related Technologies.

Valentine Reboul

Jean-Pierre Rosen 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".

Vincent Celier Vincent Celier is a retired navy officer who spent 20 years in the French Navy, where he learned and practiced Ada starting in 1986. In 1988, he joined CR2A, where among other things he was one of the authors of ExtrA (Extension temps reel in Ada), an ISO Technical Report. In 1994, he moved to Vancouver in Canada, where he worked for 7 years in Ada on the Canadian Automated Air Traffic System. In Vancouver, he discovered Free Software and GNU/Linux. In 2001, he joined AdaCore. He is currently working mostly on the Project Manager and in particular on GPRBuild.

Ludovic Brenta 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.

Thomas Quinot Thomas Quinot holds an engineering degree from Telecom Paris and a PhD from Universite Paris VI. The main contribution of his research work is the definition of a flexible middleware architecture aiming at interoperability across distribution models. He is now a Senior Software Engineer with AdaCore, a leading provider of tools and solutions for embedded, real-time and criticial systems, where he is responsible for the distribution technologies.

Xavier Grave Xavier Grave got his PhD in theoretical physics in 1997 but learned programming by himself as early as 1984 and learned Ada with GNAT and the Lovelace tutorial in 1997. The following year, he joined the CNRS, where he is now developing a highly distributed acquisition system: NARVAL.

Georg Kienesberger Georg Kienesberger is a graduate student in Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology, where he currently concentrates on research in the field of static control flow analysis. He is a longtime GNU/Linux enthusiast and a passionate Free Software advocate. Within the Free Software Foundation Europe he serves as the Country Coordinator for Austria.

Miguel Telleria de Esteban Miguel Telleria de Esteban is a Free Software engineer and computer science researcher from the Cantabria region in the north of Spain. He started using Debian GNU/Linux in 2002 and keeps collaborating ever since with Linux User Groups BxLUG (Brussels) and Linuca (Cantabria region, Spain). He discovered Ada in 1998 through the lectures of Prof. Michael Gonzalez Harbour in Cantabria and pursuited it a year later with the Software Engineering course of Prof. Alfred Strohmeier's lab at the EPFL in Switzerland. After a 5 year period of IT consulting work in Brussels (where he discovered Free Software), he returned to his home University of Cantabria to start a research career on Real-Time systems in the European FP6 FRESCOR project.

Daniel Sangorrin Daniel Sangorrin is Telecommunications Engineer by the University of Cantabria and he is currently working as a researcher on Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems for the European FP6 project FRESCOR. He is one of the main contributors to the MaRTE OS project, a GPL Real-Time Kernel written in Ada and C that implements the Minimal Real-Time POSIX.13 subset, where he has developed drivers, network protocols, filesystem and other low-level programming.

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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (V20081201.1)

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).

Presentations

Speakers

Jean-Pierre Rosen 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".

Georg Kienesberger Georg Kienesberger is a graduate student in Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology, where he currently concentrates on research in the field of static control flow analysis. He is a longtime GNU/Linux enthusiast and a passionate Free Software advocate. Within the Free Software Foundation Europe he serves as the Country Coordinator for Austria.

Xavier Grave Xavier Grave got his PhD in theoretical physics in 1997 but learned programming by himself as early as 1984 and learned Ada with GNAT and the Lovelace tutorial in 1997. The following year, he joined the CNRS, where he is now developing a highly distributed acquisition system: NARVAL.

Thomas Quinot Thomas Quinot holds an engineering degree from Telecom Paris and a PhD from Universite Paris VI. The main contribution of his research work is the definition of a flexible middleware architecture aiming at interoperability across distribution models. He is now a Senior Software Engineer with AdaCore, a leading provider of tools and solutions for embedded, real-time and criticial systems, where he is responsible for the distribution technologies.

Vincent Celier Vincent Celier is a retired navy officer who spent 20 years in the French Navy, where he learned and practiced Ada starting in 1986. In 1988, he joined CR2A, where among other things he was one of the authors of ExtrA (Extension temps reel in Ada), an ISO Technical Report. In 1994, he moved to Vancouver in Canada, where he worked for 7 years in Ada on the Canadian Automated Air Traffic System. In Vancouver, he discovered Free Software and GNU/Linux. In 2001, he joined AdaCore. He is currently working mostly on the Project Manager and in particular on GPRBuild.

Ludovic Brenta 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.

Miguel Telleria de Esteban Miguel Telleria de Esteban is a Free Software engineer and computer science researcher from the Cantabria region in the north of Spain. He started using Debian GNU/Linux in 2002 and keeps collaborating ever since with Linux User Groups BxLUG (Brussels) and Linuca (Cantabria region, Spain). He discovered Ada in 1998 through the lectures of Prof. Michael Gonzalez Harbour in Cantabria and pursuited it a year later with the Software Engineering course of Prof. Alfred Strohmeier's lab at the EPFL in Switzerland. After a 5 year period of IT consulting work in Brussels (where he discovered Free Software), he returned to the University of Cantabria to start a research career on Real-Time systems in the same lab where he was taught Ada for the first time (CTR).

Parnian Mokri Parnian Mokri is a hardware computer engineering student at Theran Central Azad University. He learned about Free Software Foundation and Open Source project while being Robotic group manager during two years at his University. His thesis dealt with Detecting Heart Arrhythmia using CycloneII FPGA's specifications. He choose Ada as his Programming Language specialty two years ago and now works with Professor Zain Navabi on subjects such as Extending VHDL as a TLM Language, Object Oriented VHDL based on Ada, Developing Ada as a hardware descriptor language in Register Transaction Level, and Transaction Level Modelling.

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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Interest A d a at F O S D E M 2 0 0 9 February 2009, Brussels, Belgium ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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). --- [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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