I would like to announce the September (2025) Ada Monthly Meetup which will be taking place on the 13th of September at 14:00 UTC time (16:00 CEST). As always the meetup will take place over at Jitsi. The Meetup will also be livestreamed/recorded to Youtube.
Important: due some personal scheduling issues, this meetup will be taking place the second week of the month, and one hour later than usual. This should be a one-off, but still, be aware
If someone would like to propose a talk or a topic, feel free to do so! We currently have no proposals. Nevertheless, we will talk about the AEiC conference, a bit of preparation for FOSDEM and then some news, regarding Alire, increase of popularity of Ada in some programming language indexes and other topics that the community may want.
Here are the connection details from previous posts:
The meetup will take place over at Jitsi, 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: I still have not started video editing the talks of AEiC… I have been very busy… Lets see if I can get so me time and energies in the following weeks.
P.S: feel free to repost this in other forums or chats, such as Reddit! >:D
the meeting just finished and here are the Minutes of the Meeting:
@Irvise gave his perspective and feelings about the Ada Developers Workshop which took place during this year’s Ada-Europe international Conference. He has received pretty good feedback and people seemed to be quite happy with it. The recordings of the videos still need to be processed, he apologises for the substantial delay.
@DirkCraeynest then shared with us the slides that were used during AEiC to present the 2026 edition of the conference! It will be taking 9-12 June 2026, Vasteras, Sweden link. The call for papers/presentations in the different tracks is already open. We will try to repeat again the Ada Developers Workshop as it had quite a lot of attendance.
@Irvise told us about his experience giving an introductory workshop about Ada. It was given in OpenSouthCode. There was not much attendance but there was good reception. It was an incredible experience and a great conference overall.
Also, from that meetup, he learnt about SysML v2. I may be very interesting to see an Ada code generator for it in the future… who knows!
FOSDEM 2026 has started preparations and we hope to see the official dates and the Call for Devrooms quite soon. Of course, we plan on applying again this year.
@Irvise pointed that India, South America and China barely have any representation in the wider Ada community and that they are growing markets that could substantially benefit from it. We may need to have a push or showcase that targets those communities
REMINDER: The Ada Crate of the Year Award is still ongoing. It is until the end of the year, but please, don’t leave your projects till the very end!
Reminder that @JeremyGrosser@kevlar700 and @Irvise are now moderators, so now it is not only Jeremy dealing with the spam. If you have any questions, issues, etc; feel free to contact us or create a forum thread with the category of “site feedback”.
The Ada User Society has improved its website and it will hold the General Assembly on the 7th of October. If you are a member, do not forget to attend!
@Irvise has started discussions with them about creating a fund to provide prices, money or incentives for people to support and work on relevant Ada programs and improve the wider Ada experience. Expect more news in the future, but for the time being, this is all I can share.
@mosteo recently became a father and his work on Alire has been paused for the time being. So no need to panic over less commits being done there! And let this serve as a reminder that anybody can contribute to Alire!
