Ada Monthly Meetup, 5th October 2024

Ada Monthly Meetup, 5th October 2024

[Fernando Oleo / Irvise]

Hello everybody!

I would like to announce the October (2024) Ada Monthly Meetup which 
will be taking place on the **5th of October at 13:00 UTC time (15:00 
CEST).** As always the meetup will take place over at Jitsi. The Meetup 
will also be livestreamed/recorded to Youtube.

**If someone would like to propose a talk or a topic, feel free to do 
so! We currently have no proposals.** Nonetheless, I would like to bring 
some topics that were left off during September’s Meetup.

Here are the connection details from previous posts:
The meetup will take place over at Jitsi 
[https://meet.jit.si/AdaMonthlyMeetup], a conferencing software that 
runs on any modern browser. The link is Jitsi Meet The room name is 
“AdaMonthlyMeetup” and in case it asks for a password, it will be set to 
“AdaRules”.
I do not want to set up a password, but in case it is needed, it will be 
the one above without the quotes. The room name is generally not needed 
as the link should take you directly there, but I want to write it down 
just in case someone needs it.

Best regards and see you soon!
Fer

P.S: you can see the September summary in 
https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ada-monthly-meeting-september-2024/1073/6 or 
in YouTube (with audio issues) https://www.youtube.com/live/i_bVoiDlw5E

Re: Ada Monthly Meetup, 5th October 2024

[Fernando Oleo / Irvise]

Hi all!

Here are the minutes of the meeting (markdown formatted) :)

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We just finished this Monthly Meetup. Here are the topics that were covered:

- SPARK/GNAT 14, released this summer, gained the support for 
`Exceptional_Cases` contract. This allows for formal proves of exception 
handling and exceptions going up the stack! As some of you may know, 
this was one of SPARK's weaker points, but not any more! If you would 
like to know more about this, go to the [GNATprove 
documentation](https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/source/subprogram_contracts.html#exceptional-contracts).
- The [Ada Discord community](https://discord.gg/edM2czVKN4) is at 99 
members! Maybe you could be the 100th one :smiley:
- @AJ-Ianozi gave a presentation on [YASS](https://www.yass.website/), a 
Yet-Another-Static-Site generator, which is written in Ada!
- @Max presented his work on translating 
[Learn.AdaCore](https://learn.adacore.com/) to the Ukranian language! 
His work can be seen in the 
[Ada-Ukraine](https://ada-ukraine.github.io/) site. They have already 
over 50 pages worth of content translated!
- We will submit a full day DevRoom request for [FOSDEM 
2025](https://fosdem.org/2025/).
- [Ada-Auth](http://www.ada-auth.org/index.html) and 
[Adaic](https://www.adaic.org/) are back online!
- Though [AdaForge](https://www.adaforge.org/), maintained by 
@captain-haddock17, never went down, so the Reference Manual was always 
available there, as well as many other resources!
   - [Ada-Lang](https://ada-lang.io/) also maintains a copy of the RM!
- Some initial work has started happening in order to enable the 
[CHERI](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/) 
architecture in [GNAT 
(Pro)](https://www.adacore.com/papers/elevate-security-confidence-with-memory-safe-hardware-and-software).

Video recording available in 
https://youtube.com/live/hpbXvSAAu30?feature=share

Thanks to everybody that participated! Best regards,
Fer