The French national scientific research center (CNRS) is organizing a short seminar (in French) the 13th June at the Paris Observatory:
Registration is open.
I will present/demonstrate fpm and @hkvzjal will present/demonstrate stdlib. There will be also a talk by B. Pichon (who was or is a WG5 member) about Fortran 2018 and 2023 and the status of compilers, and a talk about Fortran and GPU by V. Lafage (cited in this recent post).
my limited french makes me understand this is a live event, not an online one, right?
Yes, it is a live event. And I don’t think there will be videos put online. But if we look at other “journées”, the PDF should be put online afterward. For example, it was the case for the following one:
Note that some PDF there are in English, even if the title of the presentation is in French.
Personally, my PDF will be in French as I consider there are already enough documents in English on the subject. And I will not bring new knowledge on the subject. The objective is therefore just to be active on the national level and promote the tools of the Fortran-lang community.
But note that the groupe Calcul is also organizing Cafés Calcul, which are online presentations whose videos are afterward put online here:
Same comment, the slides are sometimes in French, sometimes in English. And although most of the time the talk is in French, it is sometimes in English.
This is great, thanks so much
I’ve just registered!
Friday, the seminar will be broadcasted live on Zoom (but not recorded):
https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/99589960580?pwd=cELAaLUG2PigKhBX6ANk0HOylQQkEr.1
Start: 10:00 UTC+2 (Paris time)
End: 17:30 UTC+2
Congrats @vmagnin and @hkvzjal for your talks. Wish I had been there but kids got sick 
Maybe next time !
Hi JC, I hope your kids will feel better for Monday.
This seminar was a success, at its scale, with the little room full with ~50 persons, plus ~20 on Zoom, maybe half young researchers (Ph.D., Postdocs, etc.) and half more experienced Fortraners. And it was really nice and friendly for the few Discourse people to meet face to face 
, in flesh and bones as we say (en chair et en os). No avatars, no captcha to enter that real world event (“prove that you are human”, or frog 
).
I will post when the PDF will be online. Talks were in French, but two of them had slides in English, Jose’s (@hkvzjal) talk about stdlib and Fortran on GPU by Vincent Lafarge.
The chairman said that he will propose to create a Fortran working group to organize more events.
Note also that I have of course announced FortranCon 2025.
Thanks @vmagnin! So Fortran is strong in France!
I hope it is as strong as it is discreet!
I know other people in my lab are still using Fortran, but they are very discreet, contrarily to me 
Well, it can be fun to see people astonished when you say you are using Fortran, and even write or make talks about it, and moreover say you really like it! Yes, Fortran Pride is a fun adventure!
YouTube lets you “autodub” a video to another language, which is how a recent video Fortran and Multithreading / Programming was translated from Italian to English.
Three PDF are already online. Vincent Lafarge’s slides are in fact a mix: ~1/3 French, 1/3 English, 1/3 computer code.