----------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Announcement and Call for Presentations 5th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2014 Saturday 1 February 2014, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 1 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. This Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. General information ------------------- FOSDEM [3], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized each February in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ participants from all over the world. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. Ada Developer Room ------------------ At previous FOSDEM events, Ada-Belgium has organized very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and full day programs in 2012 [6] and 2013 [7]. One of our important goals is to present Ada also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Our proposal for another dedicated Ada DevRoom was accepted recently, and now work continues to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8 schedulable hours between 10:00 and 18:00 in a room which holds up to 80 participants. More information will be posted later on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [8], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various lists and newsgroups. Call for presentations ---------------------- Ada-Belgium calls on you to: - inform us at ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be about specific presentations you would like to hear in this Ada DevRoom; - for bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [9] to discuss and help organize the details; - for more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're looking for proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots are 25 or 50 minutes, including Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). We'd like to put together a draft schedule by the end of November. So, please act ASAP, and definitely before November 30, 2013. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium [2] http://www.ada-europe.org [3] https://fosdem.org [4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [6] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html [7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [9] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm