Ada at FOSDEM 2006

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

The Free and Open-Source Developers' Meeting (FOSDEM) is an annual
event held in Brussels, Belgium, in February.  The 2006 edition will
take place on Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th of February, 2006.
Ada-Belgium has organised a series of presentations related to Ada, to
be held in a dedicated developers' room, all day Sunday.  Here is the
programme:

10:00 - 11:00 Jean-Pierre Rosen: Introduction to Ada

Jean-Pierre will put his well-known talent to good use, introducing
Ada to beginning or experienced programmers alike.

11:00 - 12:00 Jean-Pierre Rosen: Adacontrol

Adacontrol is a tool that analyses Ada source text and verifies
compliance with coding rules and guidelines.  Adacontrol is free
software written under contract with Eurocontrol, and takes advantage
of ASIS, the standard interface that allows Ada programs to analyse
Ada source text.  Jean-Pierre will introduce Adacontrol, ASIS, and the
business model that allows one to make a living writing free software.

12:00 - 13:00 Philippe Waroquiers: Use of free software in European
Air Traffic Flow Management

Philippe Waoquiers leads software development at Eurocontrol, the
European air traffic control agency with 34 member states.  Software
on which millions of travellers' lives each year depend is written in
Ada using AdaCore's free Ada compiler, GNAT.

13:00 - 14:00 lunch break

14:00 - 15:00 Ludovic Brenta: Ada in Debian

Ludovic Brenta will explain his work as the main maintainer of Ada in
Debian, and the policy that unites all Ada packages, thereby making
Debian the best free Ada development platform in the world :) This
will be an excellent opportunity for a tour of existing free software
projects developed in Ada.

15:00 - 16:00 AdaCore: Ada Academic Initiative

AdaCore is the company that offers technical support and consulting
services around GNAT, the GNU project's free Ada compiler.  AdaCore is
also the main developer of GNAT.  The Ada Academic Initiative aims to
encourage universities and other education institutions worldwide to
use and teach Ada, by offering a broad range of services at no cost to
professors and students.  If possible, AdaCore will demonstrate the
latest GNAT Programming Studio with GNAT GPL 2005 Edition.

16:00 - 17:00 AdaCore: The PolyORB schizophrenic middleware

An example of fruitful collaboration between academia and industry,
PolyORB allows heterogeneous software components to communicate with
one another by bridging various middleware technologies such as CORBA,
MOM and the Ada Distributed Systems Annex (annex E).

All presentations will be in English, but all speakers also speak
French.  You may ask questions on comp.lang.ada, fr.comp.lang.ada, or
join the AdaFOSDEM mailing list (in English).

More information:

FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org

AdaCore : http://www.adacore.com

Free Software from AdaCore: http://libre.adacore.com (includes, among
others, GNAT, GPS and PolyORB which will be the focus of some talks)

Debian : http://www.debian.org

Eurocontrol : http://www.eurocontrol.int

Ada-Belgium : http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/

AdaFOSDEM mailing list, operated by Ada-Belgium:
http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.ac.be/archives/adafosdem.html

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.