Dear Ada Community,
The Ada User Society is pleased to announce the creation of the Ada User Awards. The goal of the Ada User Awards is to encourage community contributions to the Ada ecosystem and to improve its tooling, libraries and language support. The aim is to drive more and better contributions by fresh or experienced Ada programmers alike, and create a thriving ecosystem with a healthy number of young developers and users while working on long standing needs and widening Ada’s reach to other communities.
The Ada User Awards are steered by an Awards Committee, currently composed of Fernando Oleo Blanco (@Irvise), Tucker Taft (@sttaft), Dirk Craeynest (@DirkCraeynest), and Jeffrey R. Carter (@JC001). The committee will identify an initial set of projects considered of high value to the community, but will also welcome suggestions for other useful (open source) contributions (for compilation, utility tooling, libraries, etc.). Once a project has been completed, the candidate contribution will be screened by the committee, to verify that it meets the criteria for a monetary award offered by the Ada User Society. The Ada community at large is encouraged to voice their ideas for projects that would benefit from such an award. To this end, please submit your comments, views, and ideas within the Ada-Lang forum at forum.ada-lang.io under the “Project Ideas” category. The awards will be made on a rolling basis, where once we have a critical mass of project ideas, we will announce the set of projects identified for awards, and an associated deadline for each.
The Ada User Award is kick-started with a modest fund; additionally, we happily welcome further funding by institutions and individuals. The Ada User Society would like to encourage you to take part as a member of the Society in order to further support these activities and the wider Ada community. With your cooperation, we will be able to support more projects and fund more development.
The “Project Ideas” forum category has a pinned message which contains all the details and conditions in order for an idea to be eligible for an award. The Ada-Lang forums and the different (sub)categories will serve as the communication bus between the Awards Committee and the community. We are eager to read your ideas!
The Ada User Awards Committee.