White Camel award

The "White Camel" award is given to important contributors to the Perl Programming Language community.

The awards were initiated by Perl Mongers and O'Reilly & Associates at The Perl Conference in 1999. Today, The Perl Foundation acknowledges these exceptional individuals annually.

By Year

 * 1999: Tom Christiansen, Kevin Lenzo, Adam Turoff
 * 2000: Elaine Ashton, Chris Nandor, Nathan Torkington
 * 2001: David H. Adler, Ask Bjørn Hansen, YAPC::Europe team
 * 2002: Graham Barr, Tim Maher, Tim Vroom
 * 2003: Jarkko Hietaniemi, Andreas Koenig, Robert Spier
 * 2004: Dave Cross, brian d foy, Jon Orwant
 * 2005: Stas Bekman, Eric Cholet, Andy Lester
 * 2006: Jay Hannah, Josh McAdams, Randal Schwartz
 * 2007: Allison Randal, Tim O'Reilly, Norbert E. Grüner
 * 2008: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Jacinta Richardson, Gabor Szabo
 * 2009: Tim Bunce, Philippe Bruhat, Michael Schwern
 * 2010: José Castro (cog), Paul Fenwick, Barbie
 * 2011: Leo Lapworth, Daisuke Maki, Andrew Shitov
 * 2012: Renee Baecker, Breno G. de Oliveira, Jim Keenan
 * 2013: Thiago Rondon, Wendy and Liz, Fred Moyer
 * 2014: Amalia Pomian, VM Brasseur, Neil Bowers
 * 2015: Chris Prather, Sawyer X, Steffen Müller
 * 2016: David Golden, Karen Pauley, and Thomas Klausner
 * 2017: Laurent Boivin, Rob Masic, Kurt Demaagd
 * 2018: Todd Rinaldo, David Farrell, Max Maischein


 * 2022: Mohammad Anwar
 * 2023: R Geoffrey Avery