I would like to announce the November (2025) Ada Monthly Meetup which will be taking place on the 8th of November at 15:00 UTC time (16:00 CET). Attention! As daylight savings will kick into action shortly, your local time may have changed! 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. Also, there will be no Meetup in December due to some holidays in Spain, January, due to Christmas and February due to FOSDEM. Therefore, the meetup after this one will most likely be in March.
If someone would like to propose a talk or a topic, feel free to do so! We currently have no proposals. Nevertheless, I hope to talk about FOSDEM news (if any) and an Ada compiler for DOS as reported by @joakim-strandberg.
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: feel free to repost this in other forums or chats, such as Reddit! >:D
here are the minutes of the meeting for today’s reunion!
@joakim-strandberg presented the Meridian Open Ada compiler. A compiler for DOS which anybody can download freely and give it a test or a full drive! I has a full RTS (actually two!) and you could try it out for this year’s Advent of Code. Additionally, it also comes with its own, full blown IDE :D! Here are the relevant links:
Nvidia published their certification process for the highest quality software that one can build for the automotive sector NVIDIA publishes SPARK Process to meet ISO-26262 requirements - #3 by kevlar700 But additionally, some people who work on the safety-critical systems of NVIDIA’s chips, gave a presentation in DEF CON 33 (this year) detailing their work on the RISC-V architecture and Ada/SPARK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhWtkZmOPn4 It is heavily implied in their presentation that they have shipped over 1 billion cores running Ada/SPARK!!!
AWS is going into maintenance mode and it is projected to be archived in the future: AWS End Of Life If you would like to keep maintaining it, contact @AJ-Ianozi as he is looking into options about it!
We did not get a devroom accepted for FOSDEM, but we are going to see if we get a stand!
A reminder that the next Ada-Europe international Conference will be taking place in Sweden, and we hope to have another Ada Developers Workshop! https://www.ada-europe.org/conference2026/
Wesley and Weston are working hard on the recordings of the of the Paris’ Ada Developers Workshop !
And we hope to release some more news about the creation of a fund to… well, fund, Ada activities and achievements soon!
We are trying to form a Committee that will manage the funds, select ideas and distribute the grants. We need at least one more person! If you are interested in participating in the Committee, please, let me (@irvise) and @sttaft know!
Shame the source of Meridian isn’t available. And re the tasking, cooperative tasking is where you have to insert yield’s and pre-emptive is time slice based.
FWIW, I reposted a plain text version to the comp.lang.ada newsgroup and the Ada-Belgium mailing list. This might trigger additional participants to join next time…
Here is the link 
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