Since the start of the Ada-Belgium organization in the early 90s, membership/sponsorship has been per calendar year, and thus runs from the moment of registration until December 31st of the same year. Although there are benefits and services even further in the year (such as the Ada User Journal subscription, access to our mailing lists, reduced fees or even free entrance at our events, the Ada-Belgium Newsletter subscription, and free documentation and CD-ROMs), it is clear that early registration/renewal is recommended to get the most out of your membership.

Individual membership benefits

• Free entrance at our technical presentations, workshops and tutorials.
• Significant reduction on the registration fee for our full-day seminars.
• The right to subscribe to an electronic mailing list reserved for Ada-Belgium members.
• One subscription to the seminar proceedings, printed as the "Ada-Belgium Newsletter", and other material we distribute via postal mail.
• One vote at the General Assembly.
• One indirect Ada-Europe membership, incl. the associated benefits package (see below).

Corporate membership benefits

• All employees of the corporate member get free entrance at our technical presentations, workshops and tutorials.
• All employees of the corporate member entitled to the reduction on the registration fee for our full-day seminars.
• All employees of the corporate member have the right to subscribe to an electronic mailing list reserved for Ada-Belgium members.
• One subscription to the seminar proceedings, printed as the "Ada-Belgium Newsletter", and other material we distribute via postal mail.
• One vote at the General Assembly.
• One indirect Ada-Europe membership, incl. the associated benefits package (see below), for the appointed contact person.
• Access to both of our electronic mailing lists (members ±50 addresses, interested non-members ±190 addresses) to distribute short announcements of new Ada-related products, services and job offers relevant for people and/or companies in Belgium.
• Indirect access to our postal mailing lists to distribute short announcements of new Ada-related products as well as job offers, i.e. we do the mailing to our member list (±40 postal addresses) or our list of all interested people/companies (±500 postal addresses), for free if it can be added to a scheduled Ada-Belgium mailing without increasing shipping cost, invoiced at cost otherwise.

Sponsorship benefits

Companies willing to express their interest in Ada or their support for Ada-Belgium, may become a sponsor of the organization. After Board approval, a corporate Ada-Belgium member (fee 140 EUR) can become a sponsor by either contributing work or resources to the organization, or donating material (such as computer hardware) or money (min. 280 EUR) to help us running Ada-Belgium and organizing events.

In addition to the normal individual and corporate membership benefits (see above), sponsors receive additional services:

• They are mentioned on the Ada-Belgium home-page, on a special sponsors page on our web-site, and on all announcements of Ada-Belgium events (printed, e-mail, web).
• The option to include on our web-site a one page description of their Ada related activities and/or products (depending on Board approval).
• Indirect access to our postal mailing lists is extended to distribute additional kinds of Ada-related information (products, services, ...). We do the mailing to our member list and/or our list of interested people/companies, for free if it can be added to a scheduled Ada-Belgium mailing without increasing shipping cost, invoiced at cost otherwise.
• A reduced fee or free space at exhibitions.
• The possibility to organize a workshop around their line of products or services.
• Other suggestions for cooperation are welcome.

All this offers the sponsor a much higher level of visibility among the Belgian companies using or considering to use Ada. "They can't see you if you're not there"...

Sponsors are important to help sustain and expand our activities, so we can help increase their visibility. If you're interested to sponsor Ada-Belgium, or have any questions, feel free to contact Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be.

Ada-Europe indirect membership benefits

Ada-Europe membership is included in the Ada-Belgium membership.

The Ada-Europe Board decided at its meeting of November 9, 1997, to extend the benefits package for indirect members of Ada-Europe, and has maintained and extended this package ever since. These benefits now include:

• A further reduced early registration fee at Ada-Europe's annual "International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies" of at least 30 EUR, and usually more. For example, at the Ada-Europe'2001 conference, held from May 14 to 18 in Leuven, Belgium, Ada-Europe members got a 60 EUR discount on the early conference registration fee. The same discount was offered for the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 conferences, and an equivalent discount in Swiss Francs for the 2007 conference. The discount was increased to 80 EUR for the 2008 conference. Ada-Europe members got a 60 EUR discount for the 2009 and 2010 conferences, an equivalent discount in English Pounds was offered for 2011, and an equivalent discount in Swedisch Krones was offered for 2012. Ada-Europe members got a 60 EUR discount for the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 2018 and 2019 conferences. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 conference had to be cancelled, and the 2021 conference was held online: to compensate for the missed benefits Ada-Europe members could participate for free! Ada-Europe members got a 60 EUR discount for the 2022 conference, and will get a similar discount for the 2023 conference.

• A copy of the quarterly "Ada User Journal" (AUJ). Beginning in April 1998, the "Ada-Europe News" and the "Ada User" publications were merged and jointly produced by Ada UK and Ada-Europe, establishing the major Ada publication outside of North America. Since March 2002, Ada-Europe has fully taken over the production of the Journal, which now truly is "The journal for the international Ada community".

• "Surprise shipments", as decided by the Ada-Europe General Assembly, typically on a multi-annual schedule and as the budget allows. Examples are the Ada 95 Quality and Style Guide, LNCS 1344, the Consolidated Ada Reference Manual, LNCS 2219, the Ada 2005 Reference Manual, LNCS 4348, and the Ada 2005 Rationale, LNCS 5020. All were published by Springer-Verlag and were sent December 1997, 2001, 2006, and June 2008 resp., to each Ada-Europe member.

• In 2013 and 2014, Ada-Europe arranged with Springer-Verlag to publish the new Ada 2012 Reference Manual, LNCS 8339, as well as the Ada 2012 Rationale, LNCS 8338. Both books were offered at Ada-Belgium's expense to all our members.
  Later in 2014, Ada-Europe arranged for its membership a group order of John Barnes' latest "Programming in Ada 2012" book. Most Ada-Belgium members ordered this book at the significant discounted price via Ada-Europe.

In order to provide the benefit of the reduced conference fee and to send the AUJ as well as surprise shipments, Ada-Europe needs to be able to identify its indirect members. This is only possible if Ada-Belgium conveys its list of members in time to the Ada-Europe secretariat. If we are unable to provide the complete information about all indirect members to Ada-Europe in time, the reduced registration fee and AUJ shipments will regrettably not be available to those late or missing members, nor will any future benefits that might require identification of the indirect members.

We hope you appreciate this extra benefits package that comes at no additional cost to you, and that it will convince you to register or renew your Ada-Belgium membership without delay. Just complete the Application Form, mail or fax it to the contact mentioned on the form, and pay the appropriate registration fee.

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Last update: 2023/01/26.