Ada-Belgium Spring 2016 Event, Sun 22 May 2016

Ada-Belgium Spring 2016 Event, Sun 22 May 2016

[Dirk Craeynest]

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                     Ada-Belgium Spring 2016 Event

                   Sunday, May 22, 2016, 12:00-19:00
                            Leuven, Belgium

                           including at 15:00
                   2016 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, May 22, 2016
in Leuven.

For the 9th 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 23rd General Assembly of
the organization, and a round-table discussion on Ada-related topics
the participants would like to bring up.

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, May 18, 21:00,
to Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be> with the subject
"Ada-Belgium Spring 2016 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 join Ada-Belgium, please register by
filling out the 2016 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 2016 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-form16.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/16/160522-abga-conv.html

Key Signing Party
-----------------
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!

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.

Ada Round-Table Discussion
--------------------------
As in recent years, 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.

Directions
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To permit this more interactive and social format, the event takes
place at private premises in Leuven.  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, KU Leuven (University of Leuven),
                and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

        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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