FOSDEM 2022 and Ada

[Fernando Oleo Blanco <irvise_ml@irvise.xyz>]

Hi everybody,

FOSDEM 2022 has been announced and it has been decided that, once again 
(sadly), it will take place online [1] (though that is great news for 
people abroad).

Last year there was no Ada room, unlike past editions. I am sending this 
message to see if the primary stakeholders would be interested in having 
an Ada room this year. I think this could be an interesting idea since 
Ada has evolved quite a bit and there could be some interesting talks 
such as:

- Ada 2022
- Alire
- Ada on embedded, see [1]
- Interesting projects that people have worked on
- Maybe Pierre's wonderful Ada Introduction :)
- And general chitchat/networking


I personally hope to give a talk about porting GNAT to NetBSD, but that 
will most likely take place on the NetBSD room, since I think it is more 
relevant there. I may also do a talk on getting Ada running on a FPGA 
using RISC-V, we will see.

Also, I am volunteering myself to __help__ (not do) anybody who is 
willing to put on the effort of creating the Ada-devroom.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2022/
[2] 
https://blog.adacore.com/starting-micro-controller-ada-drivers-in-the-alire-ecosystem

Happy hacking,
-- 
Fernando Oleo Blanco
https://irvise.xyz