From: RachelC@ActiveState.com
To: letters@lwn.net
Subject: please post asap, apologies as well
Date: 19 Feb 2001 11:07:46 -0800


ActiveState is delighted to kick off the first annual Programmers' Choice
and Activators' Choice Awards. We'd like to honor those unnamed heroes
who've *actively* contributed to making Perl and Python the most popular
open source programming languages.

Accordingly we'd like your input for the Programmers' Choice
<http://www.ActiveState.com/Awards> for Perl and Python. Know someone whose
code design rocks? We'd like to hear from you!  We're also acknowledging
those we deem worthy for their accomplishments with Perl and Python in an
Activators' Choice award. Following a month long discussion period of late
caffeine-filled nights, our dev team will through a rigorous evaluation
process cast their votes for one deserving Perl and Python programmer.
Here's how it works:

- Fill out the nomination form to make your nominations NOW. Programmers'
  Choice <http://www.ActiveState.com/Awards> 
- Check back on Feb. 20, 2001 to see the list of the top nominees.  
- Vote for one of the finalists from Feb. 21 to March 5, 2001.

Get out the vote and stay tuned…Winners will receive a cool trophy and
will be announced March 6, 2001.