Form990EZ
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Short Form
Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax
Under section 501(c), 527, or 4947(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code (except private foundations)
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OMB No. 1545-0047
2024
Open to Public
Inspection
A
For the 2024 calendar year, or tax year beginning 01-01-2024, and ending 12-31-2024
B
Check if applicable:
C Name of organization
THE ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION
 
Number and street (or P. O. box, if mail is not delivered to street address)42 FOX HOLLOW
  Room/suite
City or town, state or province, country, and ZIP or foreign postal code IRVINE, CA92614
D Employer identification number

81-0586861
E Telephone number

F Group Exemption
Numberbullet  
G Accounting Method: Other (specify) bullet   H Check bulletI Website:bullethttps://2024.programming-conference.org/J Tax-exempt status (check only one) - ( 6) bullet (insert no.) or
K Form of organization:  
L Add lines 5b, 6c, and 7b to line 9 to determine gross receipts. If gross receipts are $200,000 or more, or if total assets (Part II, column (B) below) are $500,000 or more, file Form 990 instead of Form 990-EZ ...........................bullet $ 52,275
Part Ⅰ
Revenue, Expenses, and Changes in Net Assets or Fund Balances (see the instructions for Part I) Check if the organization used Schedule O to respond to any question in this Part I.....................
VerticalRevenue 1 Contributions, gifts, grants, and similar amounts received .................... 1  
2 Program service revenue including government fees and contracts ................ 2 51,716
3 Membership dues and assessments ............................. 3  
4 Investment income .................................... 4 559
5a Gross amount from sale of assets other than inventory ....... 5a  
b Less: cost or other basis and sales expenses ............ 5b 0
c Gain or (loss) from sale of assets other than inventory (Subtract line 5b from line 5a) ...... 5c  
6 Gaming and fundraising events
a Gross income from gaming (attach Schedule G if greater than $15,000) 6a  
b Gross income from fundraising events (not including $   of contributions from fundraising events reported on line 1) (attach Schedule G if the sum of such gross income and contributions exceeds $15,000) ..6b 0
c Less: direct expenses from gaming and fundraising events ... 6c 0
d Net income or (loss) from gaming and fundraising events (add lines 6a and 6b and subtract line 6c) 6d  
7a Gross sales of inventory, less returns and allowances ...... 7a  
b Less: cost of goods sold ............. 7b 0
c Gross profit or (loss) from sales of inventory (Subtract line 7b from line 7a) ......... 7c  
8 Other revenue (describe in Schedule O) .................... 8  
9 Total revenue. Add lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5c, 6d, 7c, and 8 .............. Bullet 9 52,275
.
VerticalExpenses 10 Grants and similar amounts paid (list in Schedule O) ................ 10  
11 Benefits paid to or for members ...................... 11  
12 Salaries, other compensation, and employee benefits ................ 12  
13 Professional fees and other payments to independent contractors ............ 13  
14 Occupancy, rent, utilities, and maintenance ................... 14  
15 Printing, publications, postage, and shipping ................... 15 3,408
16 Other expenses (describe in Schedule O) ................... 16 33,379
17 Total expenses. Add lines 10 through 16 ................. Bullet 17 36,787
VerticalNetAssets 18 Excess or (deficit) for the year (Subtract line 17 from line 9) ............ 18 15,488
19 Net assets or fund balances at beginning of year (from line 27, column (A)) (must agree with
end-of-year figure reported on prior year’s return) ................. 19 52,556
20 Other changes in net assets or fund balances (explain in Schedule O) ........... 20 1,930
21 Net assets or fund balances at end of year. Combine lines 18 through 20 .......... 21 69,974
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Cat. No. 10642I Form 990-EZ (2024)
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Part ⅡBalance Sheets (see the instructions for Part II)Check if the organization used Schedule O to respond to any question in this Part II.................

(A) Beginning of year(B) End of year
22Cash, savings, and investments................
52,556
22
69,974
23Land and buildings....................
 
23
 
24Other assets (describe in Schedule O) ..........
 
24
 
25Total assets......................
52,556
25
69,974
26
Total liabilities (describe in Schedule O) .............
 
26
 
27Net assets or fund balances (line 27 of column (B) must agree with line 21)
52,556
27
69,974
Part ⅢStatement of Program Service Accomplishments (see the instructions for Part III) Check if the organization used Schedule O to respond to any question in this Part III . . Expenses
(Required for section 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations; optional for others.)
What is the organization's primary exempt purpose? At Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Our mission is to share the importance of modularity with the community of software developers who hope to improve on software project development processes through better modular applications presented by the aspect-oriented programming language. AOSA IS THE PRIMARY SPONSOR FOR THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON MODULARITY, FORMERLY KNOWN AS ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.
Describe the organization’s program service accomplishments for each of its three largest program services, as measured by expenses. In a clear and concise manner, describe the services provided, the number of persons benefited, and other relevant information for each program title.
28 The International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programmingor Programming for shortis a new conference focused on programming topics including the experience of programming. Programming seeks for papers that advance knowledge of programming on any relevant topic, including programming practice and experience.In 2024,the conference was held in Lund,Sweden.TThe 8th MoreVMs workshop aims to bring together industrial and academic programmers to discuss the design, implementation, and usage of modern languages and runtimes.This includes aspects such as reuse of language runtimes, modular implementation, language design, compilation strategies, as well as the interaction of modern languages and runtimes with operating systems and modern hardware architectures.By bringing together both researchers and practitioners, the workshop aims to enable a diverse discussion on how languages and runtimes are currently being utilized, and where they need to improve further. The descriptions of the workshops are presented below.MoreVMs welcomes early-stage work, emerging ideas, insightful discussions of existing systems, as well as extended abstracts for publication in the ACM DL.Relevant topics include, but are definitely not limited to, the following:Extensible VM design (compiler- or interpreter-based VMs)Reusable components (e.g. interpreters, garbage collectors, )Static and dynamic compilation techniquesTechniques for targeting high-level languages such as JavaScriptInteroperability between languagesTooling support (e.g. debugging, profiling, etc.)Programming language development environmentsInteraction of virtual machines, operating systems, and computer architectureCase studies of existing language implementation approachesLanguage implementation challenges and trade-offsSurveys and experience reports to understand usage in the wildSurvey and analysis of existing VMs and compilersIdeas for more predictable performanceIdeas for how VMs could take advantage of new hardware featuresIdeas for how we should build languages in the futureWelcome to the Special Late Breaking Track on Programming with AIAbstractThe narrative of AI changing everything seems inescapable at the moment, with [ironically] programming being one of the first disciplines caught up in the storm. In order to understand the effects of a moment like this, its helpful to step away from the rhetoric of exceptionalism and look back at previous examples of such changes - 40 years ago Bainbridge [1] characterised some ironies of automation, ways in which automation wasnt playing out as it was supposed to. Some of these ironies seem very present today in the supposed unprecedented concern of modern AI - such as the responsibility for users to be ever vigilant of mistakes, or designers building tools that only solve the easy problems and leaving all the complicated tasks to the user. We propose to hold a special track at where late breaking content about how it will be to program with (or against) AI assistance (hindrances) can be understood.In case of need, here are some topics that might help to get you started:creating programs with AIexperience of programming with AIexploratory programming with AIlive programming with AIprogram understanding with AIpsychology of programming with AIuser studies on programming with AItheories about all thatCorrectness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the focus of this special track is on programming with AI. We welcome a wide spectrum of contributions on programming with AI.Welcome to the 10th Edition of the Programming Experience WorkshopIf you intend to participate in the PX/24 workshop, please note that the workshop will allow for structured feedback based on the Writers Workshop format. For that, please download and read all submissions in advance, if possible.Remote participation will be ensured.AbstractSome programming feels fun, other programming feels annoying. Why?For a while now the study of programming has forced improvements to be described through the Fordist lens of usability and productivity, where the thing that matters is how much software can get built, how quickly.But along the way, something has gone missing. What makes programmers feel the way they do when theyre programming? Its not usually fun to spend an age doing something that could have been done easily, so efficiency and usability still matter, but theyre not the end of the story.Some environments, activities, contexts, languages, infrastructures make programming feel alive, others feel like working in a bureaucracy. This is not purely technologically determined, writing Lisp to do your taxes probably still isnt fun, but its also not technologically neutral, writing XML to produce performance art is still likely to bebureaucratic/bureaucratic.Whilst we can probably mostly agree about what isnt fun, what is remains more personal and without a space within the academy to describe it.PX set its focus on questions like: Do programmers create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly (liveness); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience?In this 10th edition of PX, we will expand its focus to also cover the experience that programmers have. What makes it and what breaks it? For whom? What can we build to share the joy of programming with others?Here is a list of topic areas to get you thinking:creating programsexperience of programmingexploratory programminglivenessnon-standard toolsvisual, auditory, tactile, and other non-textuallanguagestext and more than textprogram understandingdomain-specific languagespsychology of programmingerror toleranceuser studiestheories about all thatCorrectness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop. We also welcome a wide spectrum of contributions on programming experience.ArtsProgramming 2024 - Step into a world where lines of code dance with strokes of creativity!At this years edition of the Programming conference, we are opening an Arts track to engage with the idea that art can inform computational practices and their presence in the world. With this track we invite participants of the conference to join a series of presentations and meet with the artists. We hope the Arts track will inspire the programming community to propose artistic projects for future editions.Events include:KhipuKoding, a session with live coding by Paola Torres Nunez del Prado;Programming algorithmic art keynote by Professor Benoit Baudry;Exhibition of Mundania Chamber with Robert Willim;Arts Track Presentations by various artists;Practical Arts Programming Workshop;
(Grants $   ) If this amount includes foreign grants, check here ...MediumBullet		 28a 36,787
29
(Grants $   ) If this amount includes foreign grants, check here ...MediumBullet 		29a
30
(Grants $   ) If this amount includes foreign grants, check here ...MediumBullet 		30a
31 Other program services (describe in Schedule O) ................
(Grants $   ) If this amount includes foreign grants, check here...MediumBullet		 31a
32 Total program service expenses (add lines 28a through 31a).......... bullet 32 36,787
Part Ⅳ
List of Officers, Directors, Trustees, and Key Employees (list each one even if not compensated ; see the instructions for Part IV)Check if the organization used Schedule O to respond to any question in this Part IV............
(a) Name and title (b) Average
hours per week
devoted to position		 (c) Reportable compensation
(Forms W-2/1099-MISC) (if not paid, enter -0-) 		(d) Health benefits, contributions to employee benefit plans, and
deferred compensation		 (e) Estimated amount
of other compensation
Ademar Aguiar  
 
Chairman 		3.00 0    
PATRICK REIN  
 
Sec./Treasurer 		2.00 0    
Form 990-EZ (2024)
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Part Ⅴ
Other Information
(Note the Schedule A and personal benefit contract statement requirements in the
instructions for Part V.) Check if the organization used Schedule O to respond to any question in this Part V.......
Yes
No
33
Did the organization engage in any significant activity not previously reported to the IRS? If "Yes," provide a detailed description of each activity in Schedule O ...................
33
 
No
34
Were any significant changes made to the organizing or governing documents? If "Yes," attach a conformed copy of the amended documents if they reflect a change to the organization’s name. Otherwise, explain the changeon Schedule O. See instructions. ..........................
34
 
No
35a
Did the organization have unrelated business gross income of $1,000 or more during the year from business activities (such as those reported on lines 2, 6a, and 7a, among others)? ............
35a
 
No
b
If "Yes," to line 35a, has the organization filed a Form 990-T for the year? If "No," provide an explanation in Schedule O
35b
 
 
c
Was the organization a section 501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), or 501(c)(6) organization subject to section 6033(e) notice, reporting, and proxy tax requirements during the year? If "Yes," complete Schedule C, Part III
35c
 
No
36
Did the organization undergo a liquidation, dissolution, termination, or significant disposition of net assets during the year? If “Yes," complete applicable parts of Schedule N ................
36
 
No
37a
Enter amount of political expenditures, direct or indirect, as described in the instructions. bullet
37a
 
b
Did the organization file Form 1120-POL for this year?...................
37b
 
No
38a
Did the organization borrow from, or make any loans to, any officer, director, trustee, or key employee or were
any such loans made in a prior year and still outstanding at the end of the tax year covered by this return?..
38a
 
No
b
If “Yes," complete Schedule L, Part II and enter the total amount involved .
38b
 
39
Section 501(c)(7) organizations. Enter:
a
Initiation fees and capital contributions included on line 9.......
39a
 
b
Gross receipts, included on line 9, for public use of club facilities.....
39b
 
40a
Section 501(c)(3) organizations. Enter amount of tax imposed on the organization during the year under:
section 4911 bullet0 ; section 4912 bullet0 ; section 4955 bullet0
b
Section 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(29) organizations. Did the organization engage in any section 4958 excess benefit transaction during the year, or did it engage in an excess benefit transaction in a prior year that has not been reported on any of its prior Forms 990 or 990-EZ? If “Yes," complete Schedule L, Part I
40b
 
 
c
Section 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(29) organizations. Enter amount of tax imposed on organization managers or disqualified persons during the year under sections 4912, 4955, and 4958bullet0
d
Section 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(29) organizations. Enter amount of tax on line 40c reimbursed by the organizationbullet0
e
All organizations. At any time during the tax year, was the organization a party to a prohibited tax shelter transaction? If "Yes," complete Form 8886-T ................
40e
 
No
41List the states with which a copy of this return is filed. bulletCA
42a The organization's books are in care of bulletPATRICK REIN
 Telephone no.bullet (175) 412-0308


Located at bulletHELMERT STRASSE 2-3POTSDAM, BRANDENBURGGM ZIP + 4 bullet14482


Yes
No
b
At any time during the calendar year, did the organization have an interest in or a signature or other authority over a financial account in a foreign country (such as a bank account, securities account, or other financial account)? . .
42b
 
No
If “Yes," enter the name of the foreign country: bullet
See the instructions for exceptions and filing requirements for FinCEN Form 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR).
c
At any time during the calendar year, did the organization maintain an office outside the U.S.? . . .
42c
 
No
If “Yes," enter the name of the foreign country: bullet
43 Section 4947(a)(1) nonexempt charitable trusts filing Form 990-EZ in lieu of Form 1041 - Check here ...... bullet
and enter the amount of tax-exempt interest received or accrued during the tax year ....bullet43
 
Yes
No
44a
Did the organization maintain any donor advised funds during the year? If "Yes," Form 990 must be completed insteadof Form 990-EZ.............................
44a
 
No
b
Did the organization operate one or more hospital facilities during the year? If "Yes," Form 990 must be completedinstead of Form 990-EZ.............................
44b
 
No
c
Did the organization receive any payments for indoor tanning services during the year? .........
44c
 
No
d
If "Yes," to line 44c, has the organization filed a Form 720 to report these payments? If "No," provide an
explanation in Schedule O ............................
44d
 
 
45a
Did the organization have a controlled entity within the meaning of section 512(b)(13)?.........
45a
 
No
45b
Did the organization receive any payment from or engage in any transaction with a controlled entity within the meaning of section 512(b)(13)? If "Yes," Form 990 and Schedule R may need to be completed instead of Form 990-EZ (see instructions)......................
45b
 
No
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Yes
No
46
Did the organization engage, directly or indirectly, in political campaign activities on behalf of or in opposition to candidates for public office? If “Yes," complete Schedule C, Part I. ...........
46
 
No
Part Ⅵ
Section 501(c)(3) Organizations Only All section 501(c)(3) organizations must answer questions 47- 49b and 52, and complete the tables for lines 50 and 51. Check if the organization used Schedule O to respond to any question in this Part VI ..................
Yes
No
47
Did the organization engage in lobbying activities or have a section 501(h) election in effect during the tax year? If "Yes," complete Schedule C, Part II .......................
47
 
 
48
Is the organization a school as described in section 170(b)(1)(A)(ii)? If "Yes," complete Schedule E ..
48
 
 
49a
Did the organization make any transfers to an exempt non-charitable related organization?......
49a
 
 
b
If "Yes," was the related organization a section 527 organization?................
49b
 
 
50
Complete this table for the organization's five highest compensated employees (other than officers, directors, trustees and key employees) who each received more than $100,000 of compensation from the organization. If there is none, enter "None."
(a) Name and title of each employee (b) Average
hours per week
devoted to position		 (c) Reportable compensation
(Forms W-2/1099-MISC) 		(d) Health benefits, contributions to employee benefit plans, and deferred compensation (e) Estimated amount of other compensation
NONE
f
Total number of other employees paid over $100,000 .............bullet  

51
Complete this table for the organization's five highest compensated independent contractors who each received more than $100,000 of compensation from the organization. If there is none, enter "None."
(a) Name and business address of each independent contractor (b) Type of service (c) Compensation
NONE
d
Total number of other independent contractors each receiving over $100,000..........bullet  


52
Did the organization complete Schedule A? NOTE. All section 501(c)(3) organizations must attach a
completed Schedule A ........................................ bullet
Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return, including accompanying schedules and statements, and to the best of my knowledge and belief, it is true, correct, and complete. Declaration of preparer (other than officer) is based on all information of which preparer has any knowledge.
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Phone no.
May the IRS discuss this return with the preparer shown above? See instructions .........bullet
Form 990-EZ (2024)

Additional Data


Software ID: 24020490
Software Version: 2024v5.2

Form 990-EZ, Special Condition Description:
Special Condition Description

SCHEDULE O
(Form 990)
(Rev. January 2025)
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Supplemental Information to Form 990 or 990-EZ

Complete to provide information for responses to specific questions on
Form 990 or 990-EZ or to provide any additional information.
Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
 Go to www.irs.gov/Form990 for instructions and the latest information.
OMB No. 1545-0047
Open to Public
Inspection
Name of the organization
THE ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION
 
Employer identification number

81-0586861
Return Reference Explanation
Other Expenses.1002 Office Expenses $229
Other Expenses.1007 Conferences, Conventions, and Meetings $33150
For Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see the Instructions for Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Cat. No. 51056K
Schedule O (Form 990) (Rev. 1-2025)


Additional Data


Software ID: 24020490
Software Version: 2024v5.2