Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce its

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2012

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

Saturday 4 February 2012

Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Solbosch Campus, Room AW1.121

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



Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe

All presentations 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 2012 edition will take place on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th 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. The new Ada 2012 standard is being finalized and is expected to be published by ISO later this year. As with the Ada 1995 and Ada 2005 standards, the new Ada 2012 standard already 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 the possibilities offered by the Ada Language (object-oriented, multi-core, embedded programming) as well as some of the many exciting projects using Ada.

The closing speaker of the Ada DevRoom, Robert Dewar (CEO of AdaCore), is also presenting the opening keynote of FOSDEM 2012. In order to give everyone the possibility to attend his keynote, the DevRoom is scheduled to start afterwards.

Main Track Keynote (Janson auditorium, 1400 seats)

11:00-11:50 - Free Software: a viable model for commercial success

by Robert Dewar - AdaCore This talk will discuss our experience at AdaCore, one of only a handful of 100% Free Software companies. All of our commercial products are licensed under the GPL and other Free Software Licenses. People often assume that there is a conflict between the use of such licenses and the needs of a commercial software company. Our experience at AdaCore shows that on the contrary, the Free Software model can be very successful both for us as a company and for our customers. We think this model can be used in many other circumstances, and want to encourage free software enthusiasts to consider this model in other circumstances. More information:

http://fosdem.org/2012/interview/robert-dewar (FOSDEM interview with Robert Dewar)



Ada Developer Room Presentations (AW1.121, 81 seats)

Speakers (in order of appearance)

Robert Dewar - AdaCore, USA - dewar@adacore.com Robert Dewar has been involved in programming language design and implementation since the late 60's (working on Algol-68, SNOBOL-4 (SPITBOL), COBOL, and since the early 80's on Ada). He was a professor of computer science first at Illinois Institute of Technology from 1968 to 1975, and then at the Courant Institute at New York University from 1976 to 2005.

In 1994, with Ed Schonberg and Richard Kenner, he founded AdaCore, of which he is now President and CEO. This is a 100% Free Software company devoted to building tools for reliable software (in particular safety-critical and security-critial software) based on the use of the Ada language and related technologies. AdaCore's implementation of Ada, GNAT, is part of the GCC system.

Robert Dewar is co-author of the Java-in-education article that was "slashdotted" a few years ago.

- AdaCore, USA - dewar@adacore.com Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium, Belgium - Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be Dirk Craeynest has been involved with the Ada programming language and related technology since 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 (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 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.

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

His current activities include creating measurement tools for helping professional golfers to become even better, modelling bankruptcy avalanches, innovating for the computer gaming industry -- and putting Ada programs inside LEGO models.

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

- Research & Innovation, Denmark - jacob@jacob-sparre.dk José F. Ruiz - AdaCore, France - ruiz@adacore.com Dr. 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 Xavier Grave - Ada-France, France - xavier.grave@ipno.in2p3.fr 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 in Ada a highly distributed acquisition system: NARVAL. In 2005 he started translating SOS (Simple Operating System) into Ada and extending it to a full distributed operating system. He is also active in the Ada-France association.

- Ada-France, France - xavier.grave@ipno.in2p3.fr David Sauvage - AdaLabs, Mauritius - david.sauvage@adalabs.com David Sauvage graduated from ESME Sudria (French engineering school) in 2004. He started as a software engineer at Thales, where he discovered Ada. Working on tactical data link product lines, he then became an agile software architect. In 2010, he formed AdaLabs Ltd (http://adalabs.com/), a company specialized in Ada based technologies and services, located in Mauritius, also empowering open source and sustainable development. David started using Debian GNU/Linux in 1999, and launched the GNU Go Ada Initiative (http://gnugoada.info/) in 2010.

- AdaLabs, Mauritius - david.sauvage@adalabs.com Riccardo Bernardini - University of Udine, Italy - riccardo.bernardini@uniud.it Riccardo Bernardini was born in Genova in 1964. He is an Aggregate Professor in telecommunications and signal processing at the University of Udine, Italy. After graduating, he began working in the field of digital signal processing, especially fast algorithms for multidimensional signals, filter banks, wavelets and signal compression. Although still a signal-processing-guy, recently he began working also on networking, especially on multimedia streaming over peer-to-peer networks. His research activity brought to the development of PPETP, a peer-to-peer streaming protocol documented in an Internet-Draft and implemented in Ada. He has approximately 100 publications including international conferences and scientific journals.

More information

Preliminary Call for Participation -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2012)

A one-page preliminary call for participation [1] is available. It can be used to help announcing the event. [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem-cfpart.pdf

Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2012)

From: Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be> Subject: Ada-Europe grants "in cooperation" status to Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012 To: AdaFOSDEM@listserv.cc.kuleuven.be Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:38:50 +0100 (CET) I'm pleased to announce that the Ada-Europe Board [1] decided to grant "in cooperation" status to our 3rd Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2012. This was granted as well for our previous Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2009 [2]. We can now include "Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe" in all announcements and web-pages, and use the distribution channels of Ada-Europe to give wider visibility to the event. The latter includes having a one-page announcement in the December issue of the Ada User Journal [3] and distributing a Call for Participation to the appropriate Ada-Europe mailing list (probably) early January. [...] Dirk Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) [1] http://www.ada-europe.org/ [2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [3] http://www.ada-europe.org/journal.html

Preliminary Announcement -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2012)

From: dirk@vana.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2012 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:03:41 +0000 (UTC) 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 This announcement is distributed to various Ada-related mailing lists and newsgroups. As FOSDEM is an international event, we're interested in feedback and suggestions from all forums. Thanks for any help! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Announcement 3rd Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2012 4 February 2012, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 4 February 2012 at FOSDEM 2012 in 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 held in large conference rooms 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. At previous FOSDEM events, Ada-Belgium [2] has organized some very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [3] and a two-day program in 2009 [4]. 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 will continue to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8 schedulable hours between 10:30 and 18:30. More information will be posted later on a dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site, and final announcements will of course also be sent to various lists and newsgroups. Although we already have many potential speakers and presentations (see our proposal from last year [5]) Ada-Belgium calls on you to: - inform us at ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be about specific presentations you would like to hear in an Ada DevRoom; - for bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [6] to discuss and help organize the details; - for 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. For the FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium, Dirk Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) [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://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html> [5] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/11/110205-fosdem-req.pdf> [6] <http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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