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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, Tucker Taft, Dirk Craeynest, and 
Jeffrey R. Carter. 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 [1] 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.

[1] https://forum.ada-lang.io/c/projects/ideas/10

The Ada User Awards Committee.

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