<div dir="ltr">Ezra,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for letting us know about this easy way to support the acs package. </div><div><br></div><div>I just filled out the nomination form. It was just a few questions. The whole process took me less than 5 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Ari</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Ezra Haber Glenn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eglenn@mit.edu" target="_blank">eglenn@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
acs.R Community:<br>
<br>
The Free Software Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2017<br>
"Project of Social Benefit Award," presented to the project or team<br>
responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free<br>
software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly<br>
benefits society in other aspects of life.<br>
<br>
If anyone is willing to nominate the acs package, the recognition<br>
would be much appreciated -- the package has been generous supported<br>
by MIT and the Puget Sound Regional Council, as well as a great deal<br>
of user-feedback and creative development on the part of the<br>
ACS/Census/R community.<br>
<br>
The nomination form is quick and easy -- see<br>
<<a href="https://my.fsf.org/projects-of-social-benefit-award-nomination" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://my.fsf.org/projects-<wbr>of-social-benefit-award-<wbr>nomination</a>>.<br>
Deadline 11/5.<br>
<br>
More info at <<a href="https://www.fsf.org/awards/sb-award/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fsf.org/awards/<wbr>sb-award/</a>>.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
--<br>
Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP<br>
Department of Urban Studies and Planning<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 7-346<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
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