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 See also List of computer science awards Perl programming language YAPC, Yet Another Perl Conference The Perl Foundation O'Reilly and Associates References External links White camel information on perl.org The Second Annual YAPC News of the 2011 Award News of the 2012 Awards Perl Computer science awards