The Chuck Yerkes Award
The Chuck Yerkes Award is presented annually to the person (or people) judged to have most significantly mentored others on the various SAGE member forums. It was created after Chuck Yerkes' untimely death in 2004.
2007
The 2007 award was shared by Richard Chycoski and Paul Lussier for their unflagging helpfulness on the SAGE member forums.
Richard Chycoski has been working in the industry since 1975 as a hardware technologist, systems programmer, software engineer, network architect, systems consultant, IT manager, IT engineer—and sysadmin. He spent the first 23 years working at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and the last 9+ years at Cisco Systems in San Jose, California.
Paul Lussier has been
involved in UNIX/Linux system administration and open source for
over 14 years. During that time he has been lucky enough to run
only UNIX-like systems at home and work, and he feels extremely honored to
have contributed to works of art such as The Linux Administrator
Handbook and SSH: The Definitive Guide (2d ed.). He is a former
Reluctant Chairman of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group
and is still a very active member of that community. In his spare time
he tries to convince Emacs that Linux is just a bootloader
and that time he fired up vi really meant nothing. Currently he is
enjoying life hacking Perl and building infrastructure as a member
of the Platform Development Team at Permabit Technology Corporation.
2006
The 2006 award went to Doug Hughes for mentoring, participation, and professionalism.
2005
The 2005 award went to Brandon Allbery. Brandon has been conspicuously and helpful in IRC as well as on the regular sage-members mailing list. Brandon seems to answer more questions on a wider array of topics than most other people on the IRC channel.
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