Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce its

8th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018

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

Saturday 3 February 2018

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 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 2018 edition takes place on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 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 2018 is held on the first day of the event, Saturday 3 February 2018. A one-page Call for Participation for the Ada DevRoom is available; it 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 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 Ada 2012 language definition was approved and published by ISO in December 2012, updated early 2016, and work on new features for the next revision is ongoing. As with the prior Ada 1995 and Ada 2005 standards, the first full implementation of the Ada 2012 standard was made available in gcc - the GNU Compiler Collection (GNAT). More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects 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.

Pictures/Video/Volunteers

If you come to the Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2016 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 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!

We also need volunteers to keep an eye on the number of people in the room, to put up the sign on the door when the room is full, to "defragment" the room in between presentations, etc. Again, if you'd like to help, please get in touch.

Ada Developer Room Presentations (room: AW1.125, 76 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 and Workshops 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 Fabien Chouteau - AdaCore, France - chouteau@adacore.com Fabien joined AdaCore in 2010 after his master's degree in computer science 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 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. He is the main developer of PHCpack, a free and open source software package. The source code is at https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack. For more info, visit http://www.math.uic.edu/~jan.

- University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - janv@uic.edu Jacob Sparre Andersen - JSA 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 writing algorithms for hearing aids, improving the quality of a warehouse control and management system, creating custom natural language processing software, teaching programmers how to use Ada, and finding bugs in Java programs. In his spare time Jacob designs LEGO models. Jacob has his own consulting company -- JSA Research & Innovation.

- JSA Research & Innovation, Denmark - jacob@jacob-sparre.dk Yannick Moy - AdaCore, France - moy@adacore.com Yannick Moy is a Senior Software Engineer at AdaCore and co-director of the ProofInUse joint laboratory. At AdaCore, he works on software source code analyzers CodePeer and SPARK, aiming either at detecting bugs or at verifying safety/security properties. Yannick leads the developments of SPARK 2014, a product he presents in articles, conferences, classes and blogs (in particular www.spark-2014.org). Yannick previously worked on source code analyzers for PolySpace (now The MathWorks) and at Université Paris-Sud.

- AdaCore, France - moy@adacore.com Stephane Carrez - Bouygues Telecom, France - Stephane.Carrez@gmail.com After graduating from the Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris (ISEP) in 1990, Stéphane joined Chorus Systèmes to work on real-time embedded systems. Since 2011, he has worked on the architecture and development of Bouygues Telecom gateways. 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, performance and... coding.

- Bouygues Telecom, France - Stephane.Carrez@gmail.com Jeffrey R. Carter - Atos Belgium - jrcarter@acm.org Jeffrey R. Carter is a software engineer with more experience than most. He has an MS in Software Engineering and has worked on a wide variety of application domains, from commercial software to hard real-time, safety-critical systems. Ada has been his language of choice for decades.

- Atos Belgium - jrcarter@acm.org Raphaël Amiard - AdaCore, France - amiard@adacore.com Raphaël Amiard is a software engineer at AdaCore working on tooling and compiler technologies. He joined AdaCore in 2013, after an internship on AdaCore's IDEs. His main interests are compiler technologies, language design, and sound/music making. Main work and research interests focus around source code analysis in general, with specific interest topics being: generic description of language front ends; user friendly frameworks and APIs around source code analysis; incremental/lazy semantic analysis; static analysis and checking for safe & secure programming.

- AdaCore, France - amiard@adacore.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, GCC, GDB and Libadalang.

Starting points for further information

Draft schedule -

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018

Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 12:39:41 +0100 From: Dirk Craeynest Subject: Draft schedule for Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2018 To: ADAFOSDEM@listserv.icts.KULEUVEN.BE Hello everyone, After a lot of behind-the-scenes e-mail interactions with potential presenters for the Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 on Saturday February 3, here is an overview of the current status. Still subject to change of course... The schedule of our DevRoom has a granularity of 30 minutes, i.e. each presentation starts at the hour or at the half-hour mark, and is either a "long" presentation of 50 minutes or a "short" presentation of 20 minutes (including time for Q&A). The DevRooms on Saturday start at between 10u30 and 11u00 and run until between 18u00 and 19u00, so offer 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, either due to overlaps with other proposals, or due to conflicting commitments. Anyway, the current list of presentations is as follows. ---start-of-draft-schedule--------------------------------------------- Ada Developer Room (AW1.125, 76 seats, 10:30-19:00 = max. 8.30 hours) ------------------ 10:30-11:00 Arrival & Informal Discussions 11:00-11:02 Welcome by Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium 11:02-11:50 Ada, an Introduction by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog 12:00-12:50 Making the Ada_Drivers_Library: Embedded Programming with Ada by Fabien Chouteau - AdaCore 13:00-13:20 Shared Memory Parallelism in Ada: Load Balancing by Work Stealing by Jan Verschelde - University of Illinois at Chicago 13:30-13:50 Ada, or How to Enforce Safety Rules at Compile Time by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog 14:00-14:50 Contract-based Programming: a Route to Finding Bugs Earlier by Jacob Sparre Andersen - JSA Research & Innovation 15:00-15:50 SPARK Language: Historical Perspective & FOSS Development by Yannick Moy - AdaCore 16:00-16:50 Writing REST APIs with OpenAPI and Swagger Ada by Stephane Carrez - Bouygues Telecom 17:00-17:50 Browser-as-GUI and Web Applications with Gnoga by Jeffrey R. Carter - Atos Belgium 18:00-18:20 Easy Ada tooling with Libadalang by Raphaël Amiard & Pierre-Marie De Rodat - AdaCore 18:30-19:00 Informal Discussions => 6 one-hour slots + 3 half-hour slots + 2 half-hour discussions ---end-of-draft-schedule----------------------------------------------- This draft schedule mainly lists the various topics and speakers, and the proposed time slot length. The order isn't final yet. Together these use 6 one-hour slots and 3 half-hour slots, hence 7.5 of the maximum of 8.5 schedulable hours. Hence, this allows us to have half an hour of informal discussions at the start and at the end of the DevRoom, as usual, but no break somewhere in the middle. It will be very important to not overrun the allocated timeslots, 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 2018 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! That's it for now! Dirk [...]

2nd Call for Presentations -

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018

From: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 - deadline Sun 26 Nov 2017 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 10:05:13 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, KU Leuven Summary: Now is the time to propose a presentation! Keywords: Ada,open source,free software,technical presentations,FOSDEM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call for Presentations 8th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 Saturday 3 February 2018, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe Deadline Sunday 26 November 2017 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 8th Ada Developer Room will take place on Saturday 3 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. The Call for Presentations is still open: the deadline is Sunday 26 November 2017. 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 25 or 50 minutes, including Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also organize a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). 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 early December. Please react ASAP, and submit proposals by November 26, 2017, or contact us if you need more time. We're looking forward to more 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 [2]. [1] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html> [2] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html> (V20171119.1)

Call for Presentations -

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018

From: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018, Brussels, Belgium Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 06:10:29 -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 8th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 Saturday 3 February 2018, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-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 3 February 2018 at FOSDEM 2018 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 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 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 Ada 2012 language definition was approved and published by ISO in December 2012, updated early 2016, and work on new features for the next revision is ongoing. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for Ada developers to meet. 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, 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], 2013 [7], 2014 [8], 2015 [9], and 2016 [10]. 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 schedulable hours between 11:00 and 19:00 in a room which accommodates 76 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [11], 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 [12] 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 20 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). 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 [12], 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 early December. So, please act ASAP, and definitely by November 26, 2017 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://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Preliminary Announcement -

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018

On Saturday, February 3, 2018, Ada-Belgium organizes once more a full-day Ada Developer Room at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2018) in Brussels, Belgium.

Check here (*) shortly for more information.

(*) http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html

Proposal for Ada Developer Room Accepted -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2018)

Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 07:45:25 +0200 From: Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@CS.KULEUVEN.BE> Subject: FOSDEM 2018 - Ada DevRoom accepted! To: ADAFOSDEM@listserv.icts.KULEUVEN.BE Just a quick note: our proposal for another Ada DevRoom has been accepted! You might want to block the weekend in your agenda: Sat-Sun 3-4 February 2018 (the exact day for each DevRoom) was not yet announced). See below for a list of all DevRooms. More later, Dirk ----- Forwarded message from Alasdair G Kergon ----- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 23:59:58 +0100 From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@fosdem.org> To: devroom-managers@lists.fosdem.org Subject: [devroom-managers] List of devrooms for 2018 The list of devrooms for 2018 (with the number of days assigned) is as follows: 1 Ada 1 BSD 1 CAD and Open Hardware 1 Community 1 Config Management 1 Containers 1 Decentralised Internet 1 Distributions 0.5 DNS 2 Embedded, mobile and automotive 1 Free Java 1 Geospatial 1 Go 1 Graph Processing 1 Graphics 1 Hardware Enablement 1 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science 1 Identity and Access Management 1 Internet of Things 1 Legal and Policy Issues 1 LLVM Toolchain 1 Microkernels 1 Monitoring & Cloud 1 Mozilla 1 MySQL & Friends 1 Open Document Editors 1 Open Media 1 Open Source Design 1 Package Management 1 Perl Programming Language 1 PostgreSQL 1 Real Time Communications (RTC) 0.5 Retrocomputing 1 Rust 1 SDN & NFV 1 Software Defined Radio 1 Software Defined Storage 0.5 Source Code Analysis 1 Testing and Automation 0.5 Tool the Docs 1 Valgrind, gdb, debugging tools 2 Virtualization and IaaS Total 42 = 21 rooms x 2 days A few devrooms had more than one submission or were merged - we will send follow-up emails where this happened. [...] More information will follow. Alasdair [...] ----- End of forwarded message from Alasdair G Kergon -----

Proposal for Ada Developer Room Submitted -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2018)

Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 12:20:37 +0200 From: Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@CS.KULEUVEN.BE> Subject: Ada at FOSDEM 2018 - (late) proposal submitted To: ADAFOSDEM@listserv.icts.KULEUVEN.BE Hi everyone, We had planned to submit a proposal for an Ada Developer Room, as done since 2005, and which as you know we organized during 7 FOSDEM events since 2006. [...] I have [...] submitted a proposal for an Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018, similar to the ones of past years but with an updated description and rationale. The review of all DevRoom proposals is already ongoing, and the FOSDEM organizers aim to announce the selection by October 2nd (slightly over a week from today). Pending that decision, you might want to keep the FOSDEM weekend free in your agenda: Sat 3 - Sun 4 February 2018. If we get an Ada DevRoom, its full schedule has to be ready by 15 December. So as usual: ideas, but especially concrete proposals for presentations are most welcome on this AdaFOSDEM mailing list! Dirk PS: If anyone has proposals for relevant Ada-related or "Ada-friendly" main track presentations, then now is the moment to speak up and start working on it: the deadline for the first batch of main track proposals is 13 October! PPS: FYI, here is a cut-and-paste of the Ada DevRoom proposal, as submitted through the designated online form: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 already organized successful Ada Developer Rooms at FOSDEM 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2009, and 2006, (1 day each, except in 2009 which was 2 days), see URLs [1-7]. We also submitted proposals for FOSDEM 2017, 2011 and 2010, see URLs [8-11]. Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is 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 Ada 2012 language definition was approved and published by ISO in December 2012, updated early 2016, and work on new features for the next revision is ongoing. More and more tools are available, many are open source, incl. for small and recent platforms. Interest keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects started, therefore we would like to organize a new Ada DevRoom in 2018. If accepted, we intend to schedule presentations, demonstrations, live performances, discussions, similar to our Ada DevRooms in previous years. ------- 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. 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. ------- 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. Coordinates Ada DevRoom organization. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Relevant URLs: DevRoom related URLs: [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html [2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html [3] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html [6] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/17/170204-fosdem.html [9] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/11/110205-fosdem-req.pdf [10] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/11/110205-fosdem.html [11] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/10/100206-fosdem.html ------- Special requirements: Preferred day: Saturday -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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