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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Ravenscar (the place, not profile), was: Re: STM32F4 Discovery, communication and libraries Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:37:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Sender: DirkCraeynest@feles.cs.kuleuven.be Message-ID: References: <60a42dc6-d8d0-4432-ae5a-86de18b82840@googlegroups.com> Injection-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:37:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2dacc763d5aee253ed9b901ccded1054"; logging-data="8646"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/5Ad/iAxf+BagUC/ObprjNF5vavVKWMug=" Summary: See AUJ 23-2 for some background Originator: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Je61FVolBJtUjeLWNHEjGpH1YE4= Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:188769 Date: 2014-08-31T18:37:45+00:00 List-Id: [ My earlier follow-up never appeared in comp.lang.ada, so I'm sending this again... -- dc ] >"Simon Clubley" wrote: >> I have got to ask: how did Ravenscar ever get chosen for an Ada >> meeting place ? >> >> I can understand a place like (say) York, or another university >> town/city, but of all the places on the planet, how did a little >> coastal "town that never was" ever get chosen for an Ada meeting ? Randy Brukardt wrote: > I don't have any knowledge of how IRTAW picks it's meeting sites, > but they do seem to pick smaller places for their meetings. > I presume it was close to whoever was organizing it (probably > someone from York). [...] > Randy. The International Real-Time Ada Workshop (IRTAW) is indeed traditionally held at a "remote location". For some background on the structure and location of those workshops, I refer to John Barnes' report "Some Impressions from IRTAW 11", published quite some time ago in the Ada User Journal [1] (AUJ, Volume 23, Number 2, June 2002, pages 97-99). The introduction includes: ------- Incidentally, the structure established by those early workshops has remained. Each day is divided into two sessions with a long midday break so that the second session works on into the evening. This has a number of advantages. Attendees can take a long walk or do other physical exercise in the afternoon - the theory being that they can revitalise their mental powers by taking exercise and perhaps ponder matters with colleagues as they do so. It also means that by keeping on right up to dinner, there is no risk of frittering away the time in the bar before dinner. It has also been a tradition to hold the workshops in remote places so that attendees are not tempted to skive off to local museums or places of unhealthy entertainment. ------- and further: ------- The sixth and eighth workshops were held at another remote hamlet, namely, Ravenscar in Yorkshire; the dates were September 1992 and April 1997 respectively. An important outcome of the second of these was the Ravenscar profile which identifies facilities suitable for safety-critical and other high integrity systems. ------- A PDF version of AUJ 23-2 is available in Ada-Europe's Online AUJ Archive [2]. The article mentioned above starts at page 25 of that PDF. [1] [2] HTH Dirk Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) *** 20th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2015 *** June 22-26, 2015 **** Madrid, Spain **** http://www.ada-europe.org