Re: Preliminary announcement: Ada-Belgium Spring 2010 Event

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> As with previous events, the barbecue will feature a thorough
> discussion of the Beaujolais Effect, complete with hands-on
> experience.

I would certainly like to come.  (Although flying to Brussels is a bit
costly for a one-day event.)

> Some prospective attendees would be interested in:
>
> - Ada applied to GPUs and in particular to multi GPUs
> - Graphics examples and demos

Definitely interesting topics.

Could we add Ada applied to the Arduino to the list?  What about
programming mobile phones (Maemo, Android, etc.) in Ada?

> However no speaker has yet come forth to actually do these
> presentations, examples or demos.  If no other speakers come forth,
> Ludovic Brenta can host another Ada in Debian workshop.
>
> If you would like to speak at this event, say so!

If anybody are interested in learning a bit about how they can use the
POSIX Ada API, I can put together a presentation and some exercises
based on my undergraduate course in systems programming.

I hope to be able to say something interesting about using Ada to
program an Arduino when we come to June, but I'm not there yet.

> If you would like to listen at this event, say so!

Definitely.

Jacob
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