Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce its

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2013

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

Sunday 3 February 2013

Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Solbosch Campus, Room AW1.120

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 2013 edition will take place on Saturday the 2nd and Sunday the 3th of February. Ada-Belgium has organized a series of presentations related to Ada, to be held in a dedicated Developer Room, on the second 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 has been finalized and was published by ISO in December 2012. 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, multicore, embedded programming) as well as some of the many exciting 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.

Pictures

Some pictures related to the Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2013 are available. If you were there and have additional pictures you would like to share, then feel free to contact me (see below).

Ada Developer Room Presentations (AW1.120, 74 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 (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 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 39 member states. During his free time, he participates in Valgrind development.

- Eurocontrol, Belgium - Philippe.Waroquiers@eurocontrol.int 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 Ludovic Brenta - Debian, 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, Belgium - ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org Kim Rostgaard Christensen - AdaHeads K/S, Denmark - Kim.Rostgaard@adaheads.org Kim Rostgaard Christensen is a software engineer graduated from the Technical University of Denmark who is active an passionate in using, improving and developing open source software. He has been using Ada for about six years, and professionally for the past year. Co-founder of AdaHeads K/S, and member of Ada-Denmark. His interest in Ada lies in its application in real-time systems, embedded systems and safety-critical systems.

- AdaHeads K/S, Denmark - Kim.Rostgaard@adaheads.org Valentine Reboul - AdaCore, France - reboul@adacore.com Valentine Reboul joined AdaCore in 2012 after 3 years of experience in critical systems (Air Traffic Flow Management and Railway automation solutions). She now participates in the "Qualifying Machine" research project and is involved in training sessions given about the Ada Language. She holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées (Grenoble, France).

Starting points for further information

Preliminary Call for Participation -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2013)

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/13/130203-fosdem-pcfpart.pdf

Preliminary Announcement and Call for Talks -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2013)

From: dirk@vana.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: Call for Talks - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2013, Brussels Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 22:32:54 +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 Talks 4th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2013 Sunday 3 February 2013, Brussels, Belgium Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Sunday 3 February 2013 at FOSDEM 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. This Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. 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. 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 has organized some very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and another full day program in 2012 [6]. 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 09:00 and 17:00. More information will be posted later on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site, and final announcements will of course also be sent to various lists and newsgroups. 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 [7] 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'd like to put together a draft schedule by the end of November. So, please act ASAP. We look forward to lots of feedback! Dirk Craeynest 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://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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