Announcing the 2024 White Camel Award recipient
Thu, 19-Dec-2024 by
Makoto Nozaki
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<. He co-founded the project in late 2010 as a means to aggregate data for an iOS application. The phone app fizzled, but MetaCPAN took on a life of its own. Olaf has been part of the team working on it ever since. MetaCPAN is a user-friendly search and discovery platform for Perl modules and distributions, based on CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network).
Olaf is also the person responsible for [perl.com](https://www.perl.com/)’s revival. After the site became inactive for several years, Olaf brought the site back to life. He’s always looking for new contributions. Anyone can [submit an article](https://github.com/dnmfarrell/perldotcom/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) via GitHub.
In 2023, Olaf also took over the [Perl Advent Calendar](https://perladvent.org/), a long-running tradition previously managed by Mark Fowler, whom we would like to acknowledge for his 20+ years of dedication.
When Olaf is not working on websites, he is spending time with his family and his dog. He enjoys open-water swimming, biking, and running. He is in the pool regularly with his local Masters Swim Club. He is currently recording guitar parts for a post-punk song cycle about Ragnarök.
In his technical work, Olaf also helps to maintain the modules in the [libwww-perl](https://github.com/libwww-perl) organization. He is the author of “perlimports” and several [other modules](https://metacpan.org/author/OALDERS). Olaf is a regular attendee of the Perl Toolchain Summit.
For the award details, see https://whitecamel.org/.
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