Re: Fwd: potential awards for Ian Murdock

[Zlatan Todoric <zlatan@riseup.net>]

Hi Daniel,

On 01/04/2016 08:22 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
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> Can anybody else comment on awards that Ian could be nominated for?
> 

Has anyone gave you any input on this?

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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Date: 	Sun, 3 Jan 2016 22:29:43 +0000
> From: 	Flee ICT <fleeict@gmail.com>
> To: 	daniel@pocock.pro
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> Dear sir,
> 
> In your web article dated 2/1/2016 on Ian Murdock you wrote:
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>> Can anybody think of awards that Ian Murdock should be nominated for,
> either in free software, computing or engineering in general? Some, like
> the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering can't be awarded
> posthumously but others may be within reach.
> 
> These came to mind:
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> ACM Turing Prize
> http://amturing.acm.org/
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> ACM Distinguished Service Award
> http://awards.acm.org/distinguished_service/
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> EFF Pioneer Award
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_Pioneer_Award
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> IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
> http://www.computer.org/web/awards/pioneer
> 
> Lovelace Medal
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovelace_Medal
> 
> Thank you for remembering Mr. Murdock so kindly.
> 
> (--> Flee ICT)
> 
> 
> 

IMHO we should nominate him for all awards we can and we should do this
ASAP. Any ideas how to go on with this?

Also, as community, we should honor him this year in some special
(Debian) way (my opinion, others can disagree).

zlatan