From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,46029c08bb8d836e X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.tornevall.net!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Preliminary announcement: Ada-Belgium Spring 2010 Event Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:49:51 +0200 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Message-ID: <87k4sidpfk.fsf@hugsarin.sparre-andersen.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 95.209.238.139.bredband.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1270734598 3238 95.209.238.139 (8 Apr 2010 13:49:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:49:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UNJ629vVhtvMNie7sqqOjUlrLOU= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9932 Date: 2010-04-08T15:49:51+02:00 List-Id: 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 -- Adlai Stevenson said it all when, at an event during the 1956 Presidential campaign, a woman shouted, "You have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson shouted back, "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!"