Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

Until 2010, the french compiler community had no official national meetings. Laure Gonnord and Fabrice Rastello decided to motivate the different french actors to meet regularly. All groups whose activities are related to compilation were contacted and the first “compilation day” was organized in September 2010 in Lyon. The next sessions, in a form of 3-days workshops, took place in Aussois (winter 2010), Dinard (spring 2011), Saint-Hippolyte (autumn 2011), Rennes (summer 2012), Annecy (spring 2013, organized by Compsys again), Dammarie-les-lys (winter 2013), and Nice (summer 2014). This effort is a success: the community (http://compilfr.ens-lyon.fr ) is now well identified and such an event occurs at least once a year. The community is still animated by Laure Gonnord and Fabrice Rastello, and now also by Florian Brandner (ENSTA), and is now recognized as a sub-group of the CNRS GDRs ASR (Architecture, System, Network) and GPL (Software Engineering and Programming). As a subgroup of GPL, the community is (from 2014) now in charge of organizing one day during the Research school “Ecole des jeunes chercheurs en Algorithmique et Programmation”.