Perl Activists win White Camel Awards

The first White Camel awards were presented to some well-deserving folks at the Perl Conference 3.0. Tom Christiansen, Kevin Lenzo and Adam Turoff were the three winners. Click below for details.

The awards were sponsered by Perl Mongers, O'Reilly and sourceXchange-so hats off to them for good work.

Tom Christiansen won the Perl Advocacy award for his work on the documentation, while Kevin Lenzo won the Perl Community Award for his work in "Yet Another Perl Conference" creation/design. Adam Turoff won the Perl User Group Award, for his efforts in making the first group, helping in Perl Mongers and encouraging formation of many other user groups.

Keep up the good work, guys.

kevin lenzo -- nicest guy ever

[cwinters]

If you went to yapc, you'd know. People like him, Tom, Adam and countless more make this community (not just Perl -- opensource, etc.) so different from everything else and so excellent. Strength from diversity, rah rah rah.

Chris

(wishing I had several thousand bucks to be at TPC right now...)

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[RoLlEr_CoAsTeR]

they could just mirror their site.. which actually might not be that good of an idea, i don't know.. but for when slashdot goes down.. gets too slow, something. maybe having another processor would be nice, who knows? (not me, obviously..)

and that was my $0.000001 worth for today.

Re:Congrats, Tom, on your Advocacy award.

[Jon Peterson]

Heh - that's the truth.

I respect the guy because he's put alot of hours in doing high quality stuff, especially stuff that others don't do, like the documentation.

But that doesn't give him license to be rude as hell to pretty much anyone he meets in comp.lang.perl.misc. If usenet newbies wind him up and he can't control his temper he should just keep out of it. People would give him alot more respect that way.

Monger fights!!!!

[gorilla]

Toronto has the best Mongers group!

Coulda done better than TChrist

[Charlie Bill]

Tom's days as the paragon of help and assistance in the Perl community are pretty well over. Back when he was The Guy, perhaps he had a leg to stand on, but I think that he certainly believes he is The Man and The Shit, tho his legend no longer lives up to reality.

Schwartz shoulda gotten it, man. He's out there _still_ working it. Or maybe Salzburg. Somebody who after you interact with them you don't feel like you've been crapped on.

Re:Slashdot Internal Server Error

[Trepidity]

I'd be happy if Slashdot were like eBay. eBay gets hundreds (if not thousands) of times more traffic than Slashdot does, yet the two sites have comparable reliability.

Congratulations Tom! Really!

[Arandir]

I don't know who these other turkeys are ragging on you, but they don't count. They're just pissed because you won't fit their tiny mold.

And as for the charges of your being impatient and full of yourself, well, duh! I bet you're lazy too! I expect nothing less. It's perl after all. Keep up the good work!

Congrats, Tom, on your Advocacy award.

[Anonymous Coward]

Because you sure as hell won't ever be winning the community award.

Re:Coulda done better than TChrist

[merlyn]

Schwartz shoulda gotten it, man. He's out there _still_ working it.

I appreciate the sentiment, and was nominated. However, since I'm on the board of directors of one of the co-sponsors of the White Camel awards, I'm automatically disqualified.