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 direct and indirect members of Ada-Europe whose names have
been made known by their Associate member receive a discount at Ada-Europe
conferences.
Ada-Europe has a Memorandum of Understanding with SIGAda 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.
Current activity concerning standardization is at an international level and is focused on the national bodies that are members of ISO. Ada-Europe has established a category C organisational liaison with ISO JTC1/SC22/WG9, which allows for direct involvement of Ada-Europe and its members in the standardization effort.
Ada-Europe will consider providing grants to support activities in connection with the liaison with ISO JTC1/SC22/WG9 for direct involvement in the standardization efforts. Another means of providing support is by grants to other organizing bodies. For example, Ada-Europe has provided grants in the past to workshops in Brest and York. Conditions that must be satisfied are that the organization is European, that the event promotes the use of Ada, that it is run on a not-for-profit basis, and that a report of 4-6 pages is produced suitable for publication. Applications for grants should be sent to the President.
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, in part due to the profits from the past conferences and the Sponsorship program established in 2002. As a consequence, the Board recommends deferring the increase of the indirect membership fees by 5 Euro, as proposed since 2001, to 2006. However, the heavily subsidized cost of shipping the Journal to an increasing number of direct members makes it advisable to raise the direct membership fee by 5 Euro in 2005.
The Board further proposes to be given the option of distributing another Ada-related book to all members in either 2005 or 2006.