Ada-Belgium event: Ada at Barco Avionics, Tue 12 Jun 19:45

Ada-Belgium event: Ada at Barco Avionics, Tue 12 Jun 19:45

[Dirk Craeynest]

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                          Updated announcement

   A d a - B e l g i u m   S p e c i a l   E v e n i n g   E v e n t

           Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce our next event:

                      a technical presentation by
               Ludovic Brenta of Barco Avionics, Belgium

              A d a   a t   B a r c o   A v i o n i c s :

          h i s t o r y ,   c o d i n g   s t a n d a r d s ,

                        a n d   p r o d u c t s

                  Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 19:45-21:45

             at the U.L.B., Department of Computer Science
       Campus de la Plaine, building NO, Solvay room (5th floor)
          Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, B-1050 Brussels

         (after the Ada-Belgium 2007 General Assembly at 18:45)

    <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html>

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Announcement
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Ada-Belgium will hold its 14th annual General Assembly on Tuesday,
June 12, 2007, at the U.L.B., Department of Computer Science,
Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, B-1050 Brussels, at 18:45. The
official convocation is distributed separately to members and is also
available on the Ada-Belgium web-server.

At 19:45 the General Assembly will be followed by a technical
presentation on "Ada at Barco Avionics: history, coding standards, and
products", by Ludovic Brenta from Barco Avionics, Belgium.

Abstract
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The presentation will cover:
  * an explanation of what Barco Avionics's products are; this can be
    in the form of flyers and slides, or Ludovic might even bring a
    couple of actual avionics units to show them;
  * Barco Avionics's history with Ada;
  * the Ada coding standards that Ludovic wrote in 2005 taking into
    account the unique constraints imposed by avionics certification
    requirements.

Speaker
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Ludovic Brenta has been programming computers on various operating
systems and languages since 1990. He graduated from INSA Lyon in 1996
with a diploma in Production Engineering. Having written too many bugs
in other languages, he became interested in Ada in 2001 and started
learning the language by himself. In 2003, he volunteered to maintain
the Ada packages in Debian GNU/Linux, and became an official Debian
Developer in 2006. Currently, his day job is at Barco Avionics, where
he participates in the development of safety-critical embedded
software, using Ada. Ludovic has been living in Brussels, Belgium,
since 1998.

Ludovic's GPG key fingerprint is
2349 9FA0 AE0D E2BA 9E18 560D C7D9 3025 9DFF AAD4

Participation
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As usual, the event is free and presentations are in English.
Everyone interested is welcome: you don't have to be a member to
attend.

If you plan to attend the General Assembly or the technical
presentation, we would appreciate it if you could inform us by e-mail
(for members, please see more detailed instructions in the invitation
to the General Assembly).  Although no formal registration is required,
this helps our preparations.

For more information and directions see the web-page mentioned above.

Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels!

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

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                           Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our
  activities: AdaCore, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven),
Offis nv/sa - Aubay Group, and Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).

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