[acs-r] Free Software Foundation "Social Benefit" award nominations

[Mark White]

I did it as well.

Thanks, Ezra!

Mark

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:46 AM, <arilamstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ezra,
>
> Thank you for letting us know about this easy way to support the acs
> package.
>
> I just filled out the nomination form. It was just a few questions. The
> whole process took me less than 5 minutes.
>
> As the author of a few R packages myself, I know firsthand how hard it is
> to get enough compensation (whether financial or simply professional
> recognition) to maintain multi-year support for package development and
> maintenance.
>
> I'm glad that you've been so responsive in this forum for many years. If
> helping you get nominated for this award helps you continue providing this
> level of support, then I'm glad to have helped with that.
>
> Ari
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Ezra Haber Glenn <eglenn at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> acs.R Community:
>>
>> The Free Software Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2017
>> "Project of Social Benefit Award," presented to the project or team
>> responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free
>> software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly
>> benefits society in other aspects of life.
>>
>> If anyone is willing to nominate the acs package, the recognition
>> would be much appreciated -- the package has been generous supported
>> by MIT and the Puget Sound Regional Council, as well as a great deal
>> of user-feedback and creative development on the part of the
>> ACS/Census/R community.
>>
>> The nomination form is quick and easy -- see
>> <https://my.fsf.org/projects-of-social-benefit-award-nomination>.
>> Deadline 11/5.
>>
>> More info at <https://www.fsf.org/awards/sb-award/>.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP
>> Department of Urban Studies and Planning
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 7-346
>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>> eglenn at mit.edu
>> http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ezra-glenn
>> 617.253.2024 (w)
>> 617.721.7131 (c)
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