Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce its

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015

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

Saturday 31 January 2015

Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Solbosch Campus, Room S.AW1.124

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



Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe

All available presentations now on-line, see below.



The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is an annual event held in Brussels, Belgium, around early February. The 2015 edition takes place on Saturday the 31st of January and Sunday the 1st of February. Ada-Belgium 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 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. The latest Ada standard was published by ISO in December 2012. As with the Ada 1995 and Ada 2005 standards, the first full implementation of the new Ada 2012 standard was made available in the GNU Compiler Collection (GNAT).

This DevRoom aims to present the capabilities offered by the Ada language (object-oriented, multicore, embedded programming) as well as some of the many exciting tools and 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, or to give an idea about its scope.

Pictures/video/volunteers

If you were at the Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2015 and took pictures that you would like to share, feel free to contact me (see below) and we'll make them available in a special section here.

This year once more, audio/video equipment was provided by the FOSDEM organizers, to enable recording and streaming all DevRoom presentations. A few volunteers "manned" that equipment during the day. After postprocessing the recordings is done, we'll post links to them here as well. Stay tuned...

Ada Developer Room Presentations (S.AW1.124, 59 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 on High-Integrity Language Technology.

- Ada-Belgium, Belgium - Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be Jérémy Rosen - Open Wide, France - jeremy.rosen@enst-bretagne.fr Jérémy Rosen has been involved in open-source projects for the last ten years. He is now in charge of open-source contributions and upstreaming at Open Wide Ingenierie in Paris.

- Open Wide, France - jeremy.rosen@enst-bretagne.fr Serge Vanschoenwinkel - Eurocontrol, Belgium - serge.vanschoenwinkel@eurocontrol.int Serge graduated from Mines ParisTech, as a civil engineer in 1997. Before coming to Brussels, Serge worked on several projects in Paris, as a software engineer, mainly for industries and railway manufacturers. Then, in 2004, Serge came to Eurocontrol, to contribute to the design, coding and deployment of systems in the domain of Air Traffic Management. In 2014, Serge became Solution Architect, to work on the architecture of Eurocontrol's backend systems oriented towards external client applications.

- Eurocontrol, Belgium - serge.vanschoenwinkel@eurocontrol.int 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.

His main research focus is the development of algorithms and software for solving systems of polynomial equations, an important topic in computational algebraic geometry, which led to the software package PHCpack. Based on polyhedral homotopy continuation methods, PHCpack offers a blackbox solver to approximate all isolated solutions of polynomial systems. In joint work with Andrew Sommese (University of Notre Dame) and Charles Wampler (General Motors Research Labs), new homotopy algorithms were developed for a numerical irreducible decomposition of algebraic sets, in an area which is often called numerical algebraic geometry. PHCpack is one of the optional components of the mathematical software system Sage.

His current research interests include tropical algebraic geometry and the application of general purpose graphics compute processors to path tracking algorithms. At UIC, Jan Verschelde teaches introductory courses to Python programming, symbolic-numeric computing, and supercomputing. For more info, visit http://www.math.uic.edu/~jan/. The source of PHCpack is at https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack/.

- 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 PhD in experimental physics from the Niels Bohr Institute. After his PhD 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, 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 - Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation - and is a co-founder of AdaHeads K/S.

- JSA Research & Innovation, Denmark - jacob@jacob-sparre.dk Tristan Gingold - AdaCore, France - gingold@adacore.com Tristan Gingold holds an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale des Télécommunations and a DEA in microelectronics from Université Paris VI. He joined AdaCore in 2007.

- AdaCore, France - gingold@adacore.com Ludovic Brenta - Debian Project, 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 Project, Belgium - ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org Graham Stark - Virtual Worlds Research, UK - graham.stark@virtual-worlds.biz Graham Stark owns Virtual Worlds Research, Ltd. Prior to that, he was a Senior Research Officer at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is an associate of the University of Southampton and the Open University. Graham was born in Cumbernauld, Scotland, educated at the Universities of Aberdeen and York.

Starting points for further information

Call for Presentations - Deadline -

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015

From: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015 - deadline Sun 14 Dec 2014 Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 20:42:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, KU Leuven Summary: Now is the time to submit proposals! Keywords: Ada,open source,free software,technical presentations,FOSDEM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 6th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015 Saturday 31 January 2015, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe Deadline Sunday 14 December 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th Ada Developer Room will take place on Saturday 31 January at FOSDEM 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. The Call for Presentations is still open: the extended deadline is Sunday 14 December 2014. 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 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 mid December. Please react ASAP, and submit proposals by December 14, 2014 at the latest. We're looking forward to more proposals! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) 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/14/140201-fosdem.html [2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html (V20141129.1)

Call for Presentations -

Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015

From: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015, Brussels, Belgium Date: Sun Nov 02 12:13:21 CET 2014 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 6th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015 Saturday 31 January 2015, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-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 31 January 2015 at FOSDEM 2015 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 5000+ 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 Developer Room ------------------ 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] and 2014 [8]. 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 10:00 and 18:00 in a room which holds some 60 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [9], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various forums, lists and newsgroups. Call for Presentations ---------------------- 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 [9] 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 25 or 50 minutes, including Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). We'd like to put together a draft schedule early December. So, please act ASAP, and definitely by November 30, 2014 at the latest. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium 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://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://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (V20141102.1)

Preliminary Announcement -

Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2015)

On Saturday, January 31, 2015, Ada-Belgium organizes once more a full-day Ada Developer Room at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM'2015) in Brussels, Belgium.

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Last update: 2015/02/03.