Allison writes "TPF is proud to announce the winners of the 2004 White Camel awards. The award ceremony was held at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.
Jon Orwant is the original editor and publisher of The Perl Journal. A long-time Perl user, Jon has had a significant impact on the Perl community. Among other things, he ushered in the Perl 6 announcement with the now-famous 'coffee mug heard round the world' at The Perl Conference in 2000.
brian d foy founded the Perl Mongers groups at the second Perl conference in 1997, and started the White Camel awards in 1999. He is the publisher of The Perl Review, which just celebrated its first issue in print. He recently returned from a year in the desert maintaining Perl modules without electricity or Internet access.
Dave Cross is a longstanding member of the Perl community. He started the first non-North American Perl Mongers group, London.pm. He's the current leader of the Perl Mongers groups worldwide, and revived the Perl Mongers group leaders list."
Joking! Congratulations to all. They were well chosen.
Personally, I'm particularly happy to see brian's name on the list. In the first few years of the White Camel awards I always thought it was unfair that one of the people most deserving of an award couldn't get one as he was the person giving out the awards.
I'm glad that discrepancy has been addressed.
