White Camels and Active Awards, oh my!

[theorbtwo]

At the OSCON last night, the ActiveState Active Awards were given out, including Matt Sergeant as Programmers Choice for Perl, the author of AxKit, DBD::SQLite, and quite a number of XML perl modules. Andy Dougherty won the Activators Choice for Perl Award. Andy is quieter on his homepage, so no long writeup: he's apparently been of the Secret Perl Cabal for quite a while, since before 5.0. ActiveState calls him "the granddaddy of Perl porters and pumpkings".

The Perl Foundation (to which PM is related, them both being part of YAS) gave out their White Camels. Tim Mahr won for the Seattle Perl Users Group, and... drum roll please... None other then our very own Tim Vroom won for none other then our very own Monastery. (Merlyn accepted the award for him.)

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Confession: It does an Immortal Body good.

[merlyn]

Merlyn accepted the award for him.

That was the plan. What actually happened is that brian d foy didn't get a chance to do the third award, so I didn't get a chance to get on stage. {sigh}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker