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> professors find themselves with little motivation to do work related to
> Ada.   If such funding were available, I would be happy to encourage more
> of my own students to pursue more Ada projects, including the development
> of more libraries.

Is the Ada Resource Association still a viable group?
If they are truly interested in the future of Ada, perhaps
they would look at grant proposals for new Ada annexes
and award grants to those that seem to be of particular
value.

"New" annexes might include bindings and/or all-Ada packages
that implement existing standards, or alternate ways to
provide functionality available in other languages, or something
entirely new.

Presumably the award committee would include in their
evaluation criteria ensuring that the project includes
some mechanism to ensure wide-spread acceptance of the
result, i.e., plans for some sort of review by someone
other than just the designers/coders.