Quarterly News Digest

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[Messages without subject/newsgroups are replies from the same thread. Messages may have been edited for minor proofreading fixes. Quotations are trimmed where deemed too broad. Sender's signatures are omitted as a general rule. -arm]Dear Reader,This period saw the celebration of the Ada-Europe conference, after a year of hiatus, and only in virtual form. This is cause for celebration and a signal of hope for Adaists to meet again in the future in this close-knit event where one can mingle with newcomers, old faces, and the "guiding lights" of the language alike. Announcements about the event, for the record, are found in this number [1].Another yearly moment of excitement for the Ada open source community is the release of the GNAT Community Edition, which we witnessed at the end of May [2]. And, speaking of open source communities, I will mention the mass exodus from the Freenode chat network due to a change in ownership and policies. The dwellers of #ada have chosen, on the 20th anniversary of the channel, the Libera Chat network as a new home. The thread announcing the news [3] is also a reminiscence about other venerable technologies that, like IRC and Usenet, still are going around.