Ada-Europe Workplan 2001

The plan concentrates our resources on two important items, the well-established annual conference and the quarterly journal.
 

Information Dissemination

Objectives:

To keep the European Ada community informed of events taking place, new books and products, standardization activities and other topics of general interest.

Activities:

The quarterly Ada User Journal which contains general news, information and articles concerning Ada and is produced jointly by Ada-Europe and Ada UK will be distributed to all members of Ada-Europe as part of their membership either indirectly through the Associate members or directly.

Conferences and Workshops

Objectives:

To hold an annual international conference and exhibition where the latest developments which impact the use of Ada and Software Engineering are presented and new products are shown.

Activities:

The Ada-Europe Conference 2001 will be held in Leuven, Belgium, commencing on May 14th. The conference is being organized in association with Ada-Belgium.

The Ada-Europe Board, through a nominated Ada-Europe Board member provides a point of contact for all conferences and hence experience gained is retained and reused. The conferences and exhibitions are open to the Ada community world wide.

All indirect members of Ada-Europe whose names have been made known by their Associate member receive a discount at Ada-Europe conferences.

International Liaison

Objectives:

To maintain contact with SIGAda and other Ada organizations world-wide, for exchange of information.

Activities:

To establish cooperation with SIGAda, Ada-Europe has a Memorandum of Understanding regarding cooperation at conferences. As part of this cooperation, Ada-Europe invites representatives of SIGAda to the annual conference as guests of Ada-Europe and similarly SIGAda invites representatives of Ada-Europe to the SIGAda conference.

Support of Associate Members

Objectives:

To support associate members in widening their national activities into the European Ada community.

Activities:

If there are activities or services, offered by associate member bodies to their members, which are of interest and benefit to other members, then Ada-Europe will, if feasible, act as a channel of communication to make those services available, to all other members.

Organizational and Financial Matters

Objectives:

To maintain the smooth running of Ada-Europe, such that it meets the objectives given here, in a cost effective manner.

Activities:

Ada-Europe will be managed by a Board of volunteers elected by the Ada-Europe membership. The Board will delegate responsibilities to its Members and will be supported by its Secretariat. Ada-Europe will fund the operating costs of the Board and the Secretariat according to the agreed budget.

The Board is concerned at the cost of holding Board meetings which results from the high cost of international travel which is inevitable given its constitution. Much of the work of the Board is carried out through electronic mail. Whenever possible the Board meets at events, such as its own conferences, where many Board members are likely to be present. In electing directors to the Board, the members are urged to consider the likelihood of those elected being able to attend meetings without incurring additional costs on Ada-Europe.

Ada-Europe has a significant cash balance arising from the money from the Edinburgh account obtained in 1997, some of which has been used to subsidize the conference in recent years. Nevertheless it is prudent to retain adequate reserves for the future.  Accordingly, the plan for 2001 aims to make the conference self-supporting. In addition it is proposed to raise the indirect member fee from 20 to 25 Euros as outlined at the General Assembly in 1999; it should be noted that the fee has remained unchanged since 1994.