----------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Announcement and Call for Talks 4th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2013 Sunday 3 February 2013, Brussels, Belgium Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Sunday 3 February 2013 at FOSDEM 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. This Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. 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. The goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the Free Software and Open Source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations held in large conference rooms by Free Software and Open Source project leaders and committers on various topics, and to promote the development and the benefits of Free Software and Open Source solutions. At previous FOSDEM events, Ada-Belgium has organized some very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and another full day program in 2012 [6]. 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 09:00 and 17:00. More information will be posted later on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site, and final announcements will of course also be sent to various lists and newsgroups. 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 [7] to discuss and help organize the details; - for more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! We'd like to put together a draft schedule by the end of November. So, please act ASAP. We look forward to lots of feedback! Dirk Craeynest 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] <http://www.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://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm