[Coin-announce] Tenth Anniversary of COIN-OR: Your information needed!

[Michael Trick]

It is not too late to get your stories and testimonials to me!  I have a
few, but could really use more!

Mike

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Michael Trick <trick at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,  As you may know, we are coming up on the 10th anniversary of
> COIN-OR (dating from IBM's original announcement at ISMP 2000).  As part of
> the celebrations for this milestone (lots of open source projects don't live
> through their first year, let alone 10!), we, the COIN-OR Strategic
> Leadership Board, are collecting success stories about COIN-OR.  We will be
> using these stories in prize nominations, presentations, reports and other
> anniversary activities.
>
> If COIN-OR has changed your life or made your organization more successful,
> can I ask you to spend a few minutes writing a paragraph or so about your
> experience and to then send it to me (trick at cmu.edu)?  The more
> specificity the better, and any external measures of success ("We won this
> prize due to COIN-OR") are very much welcome.  We particularly want stories
> on how COIN-OR is affecting the world outside of operations research, but
> very much welcome stories from within the field.
>
> We will be using these throughout the rest of the year, but our first
> deadline is in just 10 days.  If you have something to offer, can you spend
> a few minutes now writing me about it?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mike
>
> P.S.  Any thoughts you have on statistics that show the effect of COIN-OR
> or any of its projects would also be very welcome.
>
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> Michael Trick                      trick at cmu.edu
> Professor and Associate Dean, Research
> Tepper School of Business
> Carnegie Mellon   http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu
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Michael Trick                      trick at cmu.edu
Professor and Associate Dean, Research
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon   http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu
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