FOSDEM 2006 - Ada "Developers Room", Sun 26 Feb 2006, Brussels

FOSDEM 2006 - Ada "Developers Room", Sun 26 Feb 2006, Brussels

[Dirk Craeynest]

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Next Sunday Ada-Belgium organizes a full-day Ada "Developers Room" at
FOSDEM 2006, the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting in
Brussels.

An updated version of the program is attached; HTML and PDF versions
are available on the Ada-Belgium web site for further distribution.

We invite you to attend some or all of the presentations; they will be
given in English.  Attendance to FOSDEM is free and no registration is
necessary.

Dirk Craeynest, President Ada-Belgium, Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be


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                Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce its

               A d a   " D e v e l o p e r s   R o o m "
                                   at
                          F O S D E M   2 0 0 6
      (Free and Open-Source Software Developers' European Meeting)

                 Sunday, February 26, 2006, 10:00-17:00

        Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Solbosch Campus
         Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt Laan 50, B-1050 Brussels

http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060225-fosdem.html

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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 organized a series of presentations related to Ada, to
be held in a dedicated developers' room, all day Sunday.  Here is the
program:

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 analyze
  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 Waroquiers leads software development of the ETFMS system at
  Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control agency with 34 member
  states.  Software on which millions of travelers' lives each year
  depend is written in Ada using AdaCore's Free Software Ada compiler,
  GNAT Pro.

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 Robert Dewar, AdaCore: Ada Academic Initiative

  AdaCore is the company that offers technical support and consulting
  services around GNAT Pro, the professional version of the GNU
  project's Free Software 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 available with the GNAT GPL 2005
  Edition.

16:00 - 17:00 Thomas Quinot, 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 most speakers also speak
French.  You may ask questions on comp.lang.ada, fr.comp.lang.ada, or
join the AdaFOSDEM mailing list (in English). Attendance to FOSDEM is
free, and no registration is necessary.

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)
  * Free Software from Adalog: http://www.adalog.fr/compo1.htm
    (includes, among others, AdaControl)
  * Debian: http://www.debian.org
  * Eurocontrol: http://www.eurocontrol.int
  * Ada-Belgium: http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/
  * AdaFOSDEM mailing list, operated by Ada-Belgium:
    http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html

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