From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!e34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Ricky E. Sward" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Call for SIGAda Award Nominations Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.29.43.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1251477516 28637 127.0.0.1 (28 Aug 2009 16:38:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ricky.sward@msn.com Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.29.43.1; posting-account=VitNXQoAAAAps5PkdYIH1vCvo-vqNN7W User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MS-RTC LM 8),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8041 Date: 2009-08-28T09:38:36-07:00 List-Id: Dear Members of the Ada Community: As the new Chair of SIGAda, I=92m 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 --------------------------------------------------- Ricky E. "Ranger" Sward, PhD Lead Information Systems Engineer The MITRE Corporation O: 719-572-8263 C: 719-661-6895 rsward@mitre.org ---------------------------------------------------