Dear all,
I hope you are doing well and that you are getting ready for holidays. I would like to give you all a small update regarding a few things I am involved in and that I know some people have some expectations.
- Ada Monthly Meetup will not be taking place in July nor August. This is due to these months being holidays for many people (including me) and that the Developers Workshop took place a couple of weeks ago. Also, I am quite busy.
- The publishing of the videos for the Ada Developers Workshop are going to take much longer than expected. This is due to my life being extremely busy and things just keep popping up… Sorry for that, but this is just how things are
- I would also like to apologise again due to the technical issues that took place during the Workshop… Some recordings have had parts of them lost and the people online could not see the webcam feed for most of the day… I should have tested the setup more thoroughly… Either way, it seems there was a bug with OBS and the drivers, so I could not have fixed it, but still…
- The weekend after the Workshop, 20-22 of June, I was in OpenSouthCode. It was my first time there. I gave a 2h long Introduction to Ada in Spanish. Sadly, due to some conditions, not many people attended… Nevertheless, the presentation was recorded. The slides and recording will be made available in the talk’s website entry. Sadly, the webcam recording was blurry as f*ck as I forgot to disable autofocus and the camera did a terrible job during most of the presentation…
- The conference itself was extremely good! I met a ton of people and wonderful communities. I knew there were a lot of cool open source developers in Spain, but I was very impressed by the number and quality of them! It was also great to see the amount of foreigners that attended the conference (50% of the talks were in English). The organisation of the conference was also outstanding and they really focused on networking and people getting together. It was truely lovely and I hope to go back next year ^^
- I am looking into ways that some things in the Ada community could get some funding… I would like to see the *BSD patches for GNAT upstreamed and improved upon… I would also like to see someone take over supporting GNAT on Apple systems, Zephyr support for Ada (see @jgrivera67 topic in the Workshop), Ada support for RTMES new build system, GTK 4 support, etc…
Well, that was a bit of talking… Anyhow, I wish you all a great summer! Best regards,
Fer