Abstract for fpm on FortranCon2021 (#12)

Co-authored-by: Milan Curcic <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jakub Jelínek <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Laurence Kedward <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Vincent Magnin <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Emanuele Pagone <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Brad Richardson <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: John Urban <[email protected]>

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FortranCon2021-fpm/README.md

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+# FortranCon2021: fpm
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+## Authors
+
+- [Sebastian Ehlert](https://github.com/awvwgk)
+- [Milan Curcic](https://github.com/milancurcic)
+- [Jakub Jelínek](https://github.com/kubajj)
+- [Laurence Kedward](https://github.com/lkedward)
+- [Vincent Magnin](https://github.com/vmagnin)
+- [Emanuele Pagone](https://github.com/epagone)
+- [Brad Richardson](https://github.com/everythingfunctional)
+- [John Urban](https://github.com/urbanjost)
+
+## Track
+
+Fortran-lang minisymposium (12 + 3 minutes discussion)
+
+## Presenter
+
+[Sebastian Ehlert](https://github.com/awvwgk)
+
+## Title:
+
+Fortran package manager
+
+## Abstract
+
+A language-specific package manager is an important element to build an efficient ecosystem of libraries and projects.
+Fortran has long missed a dedicated package manager, making the user experience of practitioners cumbersome. With the Fortran package manager (fpm) we are addressing these needs creating a reliable and productive tool that makes building applications and using libraries intuitive.
+Fpm takes care of fetching and building all transitive dependencies used to build the main project making especially easy to reuse other projects.
+As a cross-platform reproducable development and production environment fpm simplifies the difficulties in building, running, testing, and installing Fortran-centric projects.
+Support for all major Fortran compilers and platforms is available.
+
+Fpm is written in Fortran and built with itself, making it easy to bootstrap and install fpm on any platform with a Fortran compiler.
+The positive effect of a Fortran implementation is the easy accessibility of the codebase, which enables the community to contribute back and improve fpm further.
+While fpm is relatively new and still rapidly developing, it already found adoption even for large-scale projects today.
+Features to incorporate build requirements emerging from developing parallel applications or integrations with GUI environments are planned or under active development.