Ada-Belgium Spring 2014 Event, Sun 15 June 2014

[dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)]

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                     Ada-Belgium Spring 2014 Event

                  Sunday, June 15, 2014, 12:00-19:00
                Wavre area, south of Brussels, Belgium

                          including at 15:00
                   2014 Ada-Belgium General Assembly
                             and at 16:00
                      Ada Round-Table Discussion

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

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Announcement
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The next Ada-Belgium event will take place on Sunday, June 15, 2014
in the Wavre area, south of Brussels.

For the 7th year in a row, Ada-Belgium decided to organize their
"Spring Event", which starts at noon, runs until 7pm, and includes an
informal lunch, a key signing party, the 21st General Assembly of the
organization, and a round-table discussion on Ada-related topics the
participants would like to bring up.  Afterwards, those interested can
once more get practical hands-on experience on packaging Ada software
for Debian with Ludovic Brenta, principal maintainer of Ada in Debian.

Schedule
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  * 12:00 welcome and getting started (please be there!)
  * 12:15 informal lunch
  * 14:45 key signing party
  * 15:00 Ada-Belgium General Assembly
  * 16:00 Ada round-table + informal discussions
  * 19:00 end

Participation
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Everyone interested (members and non-members alike) is welcome at
any or all parts of this event.

For practical reasons registration is required.  If you would like
to attend, please send an email before Wednesday, June 11, 21:00,
to Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be> with the subject
"Ada-Belgium Spring 2014 Event", so you can get precise directions
to the place of the meeting.  Even if you already responded to the
preliminary announcement, please reconfirm your participation ASAP.

If you are interested to become a new member, please register by
filling out the 2014 membership application form[1] and by paying the
appropriate fee before the General Assembly.  After payment you will
receive a receipt from our treasurer and you are considered a member of
the organization for the year 2014 with all member benefits[2].  Early
renewal ensures you receive the full Ada-Belgium membership benefits
(including the Ada-Europe indirect membership benefits package).

As mentioned at earlier occasions, we have a limited stock of
documentation sets and Ada related CD-ROMs that were distributed at
previous events, as well as back issues of the Ada User Journal[3].
These will be available on a first-come first-serve basis at the
General Assembly for current and new members.  (Please indicate
in the above-mentioned registration e-mail that you're interested,
so we can bring enough copies.)

[1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/forms/member-form14.html
[2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/member-benefit.html
[3] http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/home/

Informal lunch
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The organization will provide food and beverage to all Ada-Belgium
members.  Non-members who want to participate at the lunch are also
welcome: they can choose to join the organization or pay the sum of
15 Euros per person to the Treasurer of the organization.

General Assembly
----------------
All Ada-Belgium members have a vote at the General Assembly, can add
items to the agenda, and can be a candidate for a position on the
Board[4].  See the separate official convocation[5] for all details.

[4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/board/
[5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140615-abga-conv.html


Key Signing Party
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Wouldn't it be nice if a majority of people used GPG to sign their
email every day so that you could send all non-signed email into the
spam bin?  To make that dream come true, please join and expand the
global Web of Trust[6]!

What you should bring with you:
  * an official ID card issued by your national government;
  * your GPG key fingerprint (i.e. the output of gpg --fingerprint) on
    small paper slips; a dozen copies or so should be enough.

What you will go home with:
  * signatures from all other participants;
  * automatic inclusion in the global Web of Trust;
  * the ability to digitally sign or encrypt anything you like.

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Trust

Ada Round-Table Discussion
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As last year, we plan to keep the technical part of the Spring event
informal as well.  We will have a round-table discussion on Ada-related
topics the participants would like to bring up.  We invite everyone
to briefly mention how they are using Ada in their work or non-work
environment, and/or what kind of Ada-related activities they would
like to embark on.  We hope this might spark some concrete ideas for
new activities and collaborations.

Afterwards, those interested can get practical information and hands-on
experience on "Packaging Ada Software for Debian"[7][8].

[7] http://www.debian.org/
[8] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html

Directions
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To permit this more interactive and social format, the event takes
place at private premises in the Wavre area, south of Brussels.
As instructed above, please inform us by e-mail if you would like
to attend, and we'll provide you precise directions to the place of
the meeting.  Obviously, the number of participants we can accommodate
is not unlimited, so don't delay...

Looking forward to meet many of you!

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, Barco, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
        (KU Leuven), and Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).

        If you would also like to support Ada-Belgium, find out
           about the extra Ada-Belgium sponsorship benefits:
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/member-benefit.html#sponsor

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