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,c041bf2afade4dd3,start X-Google-Thread: 107e1d,c041bf2afade4dd3,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid107e1d,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-out1.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!xindi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!aotearoa.belnet.be!ikaria.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!unknown!not-for-mail From: dirk@heli.cs.kuleuven.be (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada at FOSDEM 2009 - Call for Interest Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:56:35 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: heli.cs.kuleuven.be X-Trace: ikaria.belnet.be 1223499371 18760 134.58.42.22 (8 Oct 2008 20:56:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Summary: Please act ASAP and definitely before before 2008-11-15 Keywords: Ada,open source,free software,technical presentations,FOSDEM Cc: dirk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2283 fr.comp.lang.ada:38 Date: 2008-10-08T23:56:35+02:00 List-Id: Call for Interest A d a at F O S D E M 2 0 0 9 February 2009, Brussels, Belgium ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FOSDEM [1], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day event organized each February in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the Free Software and Open Source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations by Free Software and Open Source project leaders and committers on various topics, and to promote the development and the benefits of Free Software and Open Source solutions. In a Developers Room at FOSDEM 2006, Ada-Belgium [2] organized a very well attended full-day lecture program [3]. Each year the number of applications for DevRooms outnumbers the available space, presenting the organizers with a difficult selection [4]. For FOSDEM 2008, Ada-Belgium proposed another day of Ada presentations, but the organizers felt there was too little of an audience. We intend to propose again for FOSDEM 2009, and need to show that this would attract sufficient interest. To increase our chances to be allocated a DevRoom, Ada-Belgium calls on you to: - Speak loudly about the fact that you want to see Ada presentations at FOSDEM by sending email to info@fosdem.org (please CC ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be). - Visit FOSDEM's brainstorm page [5] and propose Ada-related keynote speakers and topics (please let us know if you do). - For bonus points, inform us at ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be about specific presentations you would like to hear in an Ada DevRoom. - For more bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [6] to discuss and help organize the details. - For even more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! We look forward to lots of feedback! Please act ASAP and definitely before November 15. The FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium PS: This Call for Interest is also available online [7], including versions in PDF format suitable for printing (152 KB) and in plain text format for further distribution (6 KB). --- [1] http://www.fosdem.org [2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium [3] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [4] http://archive.fosdem.org/2008/call_for_devrooms [5] http://www.fosdem.org/2009/brainstorm [6] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html [7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/0902xx-fosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (V20081008.1)