Focused workshops are important in evolving Ada technology to better meet the needs of the Ada community. Workshops are free for those registered for the conference. The following workshops are currently planned for SIGAda 2005.

• Ada Application Programming Interfaces (API) Management, Geoff T. Smith
  Wednesday, November 16, 4:00 - 5:00 PM

• AdaCore's GNAT Academic Package, Edmond Schonberg
  Wednesday, November 16, 5:00 - 6:00 PM

  This session will provide an update on the implementation of the new language standard in GNAT, as well as a summary of AdaCore's GNAT Academic Program ("GAP").

  AdaCore has been actively involved in the implementation of Ada 2005, and most of the features of the upcoming standard are now available in GNAT releases. We will provide a survey of these features and describe the roadmap for the full implementation of Ada 2005 in the GNAT technology.

  GAP is an AdaCore initiative to promote Ada in academia by making the GNAT development environment available to professors and their students. The GAP program now has more than 80 colleges and universities worldwide enrolled as participants. Thanks to the implementation of Ada 2005 features in the GAP release, educators can present Ada at its best, in the context of contemporary language design.

• Visual Studio 2005, Bindia Hallauer
  Wednesday, November 16, 7:30 - 10:00 PM

• Agile and CMMI methodologies revolving around Microsoft Solutions Framework Version 4, Bindia Hallauer
  Wednesday, November 16, 7:30 - 10:00 PM

  This BOF will compare and contrast different approaches to improving the reliability of software-intensive products. The approaches that will be covered are:

  1. the Microsoft Solutions Framework and Trustworthy Computing
  2. the SEI's CMM, the Team Software Process, and the Personal Software Process
  3. Extreme Programming

  Representatives from both Microsoft and SEI are expected to attend. In addition, various materials will be handed out.

• Commercializing Ada, Robert C. Leif
  Wednesday, November 16, 10:00 - 11:00 PM

  This workshop will cover the current status of various markets (military, medical, etc.), copyrights and their suitability for Ada (e.g., GPL), and the combined usage of Ada and XML. In addition, a presentation on the Progresssive Software approach will be presented by Robert Leif and Marius Alves.

Additional workshops or Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions are welcome. Workshops have a focused objective and result in a report to be published in Ada Letters. BoFs are informal discussion groups. If you would like to propose a Workshop or BoF, please contact the Workshops Chair, Alok Srivastava, Alok.Srivastava at AUATAC.Com