"I’m humbled to receive the namesake award of a computing pioneer who showed that what a programmer could do with a computer is limited only by the programmer themselves"

That's like the exact opposite of what Turing proved, with the halting problem and all.

I'm any case, a well deserved award!

A github-like service for musicians that would allow:

1. Version control of compositions; 2. Forks of other musicians' "repositories" / compositions; 3. Contributions to other musicians' songs; 4. Possibly play the songs online; 5. Private / public repos; 6. Individual / band / group / organization repos. 7. ???

You may find this interesting: http://www.kompoz.com

Kind of like this? http://www.beatlab.com/

I'm a terrible musician, but I love this idea.

this is something similar: http://www.ohmstudio.com/

What I have in mind is more focused on the composition part of music creation, rather then recording / editing. But this is a very cool project! And of course collaborative sound editing would be awesome for an idea such as mine.

How would the notation be setup?

I didn't work much in the the idea, but since I'd focus more in hte composition process, I thought of building an easy-to-use, graphic version control tool that integrates with common composition software (finale, guitar pro etc.).

This tool wold then convert the score / tablature into a single representation that would be used for storing, diffs and such. Perhaps this represantation could be text-based (lilypond [1]?) to use a mainstream VCS (git) as backend.

But I don't have the skills or time to do that, so it will stay in stand by until someone (me?) implements it someday.

[1] http://lilypond.org/

Very interesting concept.