Hi everybody,
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.
- India has developed their own CPU and Ada will be a first class citizen in their tech stack!
- @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
- NVIDIA:
- They published their work on ISO-26262 certification and published a guide on how they did it!
- They certified to ASIL-D their DriveOS, a 7 million OS written in SPARK
- Their White Hat Hackers showcased in Defcon their work on securing over a billion RISC-V chips with the use of Ada! (related article). Slides are here and the live-recording. I sadly cannot find the specific video of their talk, but I know it exists. Please, feel free to link it here.
- Ada keeps on climbing in popularity rankings! We need to keep on sharing the word, teaching and showcasing our passion for it!
- 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!
- @godunko did a PR to get GNAT-LLVM ready for Alire quite a while ago! That is great news, lets see if we can get it accepted!
- 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”.
- There are several job postings by Raytheon
- 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.
- Luke shared a method for funding which was used for the Amiga
- @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!
EDIT: I forgot to link the video recording/livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnir_hk1ZC4
Thank you all that attended! Best regards,
Fer