Call for SIGAda Award Nominations

["Ricky E. Sward" <ricky.sward@msn.com>]

Dear Members of the Ada Community:

As the new Chair of SIGAda, I’m sending you this call for nominations
for the SIGAda Outstanding Ada Community Contribution Award and the
ACM SIGAda Distinguished Service Award.  Nominations are due on
September 28th to SIGAda-Award@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG.

On Thursday, Nov 5th, these SIGAda Awards will be presented in a
special morning plenary session at the SIGAda 2009 conference in
Tampa, Florida (See http://www.sigada.org/conf/sigada2009/).

The ACM SIGAda Awards recognize individuals and organizations who have
made outstanding contributions to the Ada community and to SIGAda.
The two categories of awards are:

(1) Outstanding Ada Community Contribution Award
     -- For broad, lasting contributions to Ada technology & usage.

(2) ACM SIGAda Distinguished Service Award
     -- For exceptional contributions to SIGAda activities & products.

Please consider who should be nominated this year.  You may nominate a
person for either or both awards, and as many people as you think
worthy.  One or more awards will be made in both categories.

Please visit http://www.acm.org/sigada/exec/awards/awards.html#Recipients
and peruse the names of past winners.  This may help you think about
the measure of accomplishment that is appropriate.  You may be aware
of people who have made substantial contributions that have not yet
been acknowledged. Nominate them.  Consider what you believe to be the
best developments in the Ada community or SIGAda in the last year; the
last 5 years; since Ada's inception. Who was responsible?  Nominate
them.

Please note that anyone who has received either of the two awards
remains eligible for the other.  Perhaps there is an outstanding
SIGAda volunteer who has won our Distinguished Service Award and who
has also made important contributions to the advance of Ada
technology, or vice versa.  Nominate him or her!

The nomination form is available on the SIGAda website at
http://www.acm.org/sigada/exec/awards/awards.html. You need to visit
this website to see past award winners' names, so you don't nominate
someone who has already won an award in a category.  A picture of the
statuette used for the award is also on this site.  Submit your
nomination as an e-mail or e-mail attachment to SIGAda-
AWARD@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG.

The ACM SIGAda Awards Committee, composed of volunteers who have
previously won an award, will determine this year's recipients from
your nominations.

Call our attention to the people who are most deserving, by nominating
them.  And please nominate by September 28th.

Your participation in the nominations process will help maintain the
prestige and honor of these awards.

Thank you,

Ricky E. Sward
Chair, ACM SIGAda
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Ricky E. "Ranger" Sward, PhD
Lead Information Systems Engineer
The MITRE Corporation
O:  719-572-8263  C:  719-661-6895
rsward@mitre.org
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