FOSSY 2026 in Vancouver

[Pietro Monteiro]

BTW, mnabipoor make some A68 t-shirts for FOSDEM. I volunteer to get some printed and bring them to FOSSY. This is the image he creasted:  https://0xff.ir/tmp/access-algol68-do-skip-od-1.png

pietro

On Wed, Apr 22, 2026, at 2:39 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
> wow this is very cool! I need to get myself in gear on this!
>
> Looking forward to meeting everyone.
>
> UBC is great in the summer, plus Pacific Spirit Park sits between UBC 
> and the rest of Vancouver, so lots of nice walking in the forest.
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 11:07 Pietro Monteiro <pietro@sociotechnical.xyz> wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> FOSSY, the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference is in Vancouver, Canada this year on August 6th to 9th. There's a toolchain track and it would be cool to have some A68 talks since the frontend is getting released with GCC 16.
>> 
>> Vancouver is great that time of the year and the UBC campus, where the conference is going to be, is beautiful.
>> 
>> Chris, you're a local so you don't have any excuses :) I'm looking forward to your talk on implementing the Standard Prelude for GNU Algol 68!
>> 
>> More info on FOSSY and on the toolchain tack: https://2026.fossy.ca/ and https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/fossy2026
>> 
>> pietro