Fosdem
2006 Edition Free and Open Source Software Developer's European Meeting






Dev-Room

Ada developers' room Schedule

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Schedule:


Saturday Feb 25th 2006
Sunday Feb 26th 2006
10:00-11:00 Introduction to Ada Jean-Pierre will put his well-known talent to good use, introducing Ada to beginning or experienced programmers alike.
Jean-Pierre Rosen
11:00-12:00 Adacontrol Adacontrol is a tool that analyses Ada source text and verifies compliance with coding rules and guidelines. Adacontrol is Free Software written under contract with Eurocontrol, and takes advantage of ASIS, the standard interface that allows Ada programs to analyze Ada source text. Jean-Pierre will introduce Adacontrol, ASIS, and the business model that allows one to make a living writing Free Software.
Jean-Pierre Rosen
12:00-13:00 Use of Free Software in European Air Traffic Flow Management Philippe Waroquiers leads software development of the ETFMS system at Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control agency with 34 member states. Software on which millions of travelers' lives each year depend is written in Ada using AdaCore's Free Software Ada compiler, GNAT Pro.
Philippe Waroquiers
14:00-15:00 Ada in Debian Ludovic Brenta will explain his work as the main maintainer of Ada in Debian, and the policy that unites all Ada packages, thereby making Debian the best free Ada development platform in the world :) This will be an excellent opportunity for a tour of existing Free Software projects developed in Ada.

Ludovic Brenta
15:00-16:00 Ada Academic Initiative AdaCore is the company that offers technical support and consulting services around GNAT Pro, the professional version of the GNU project's Free Software Ada compiler. AdaCore is also the main developer of GNAT. The Ada Academic Initiative aims to encourage universities and other education institutions worldwide to use and teach Ada, by offering a broad range of services at no cost to professors and students. If possible, AdaCore will demonstrate the latest GNAT Programming Studio available with GNAT GPL 2005 Edition.
Robert B.K. Dewar, AdaCore
16:00-17:00 The PolyORB schizophrenic middleware An example of fruitful collaboration between academia and industry, PolyORB allows heterogeneous software components to communicate with one another by bridging various middleware technologies such as CORBA, MOM and the Ada Distributed Systems Annex (annex E).

Robert B.K. Dewar, AdaCore

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