Vote now for the 2010 Pooners!

[TonyE]

It is that time again; time for Pooner voting. This year we induct an individual Pooner and a lifetime Pooner.

See past winners at http://www.harpoonpages.com/pooner2009.htm

Vote by replying to this topic and stating your vote. Please only vote at one forum.


What is a Pooner?

A person who gives of their time, talents, and riches to the Harpoon community.

An award given yearly to recognize the efforts of the above.

The lifetime Pooner award recognizes extraordinary effort over a number of years. These individuals represent current and former pillars of Harpoon.

The yearly Pooner award recognizes extraordinary effort often within (but not restricted
to) a single 12 month period.


Rules:
One individual and one lifetime Pooner vote per voter.
Only votes for individuals will be counted, no groups.
I'll tally the votes the first week of January and declare a victor.


Places where votes are accepted:
HarpGamer
HULL mailing list
Matrix Games Harpoon forums
SubSim Classic Subsims forum


Past Lifetime Winners (ineligible to win again for lifetime):
Larry Bond, Chris Carlson, Don Gilman,
Gordon Walton, Byron Audler, Byron Emsoy,
Ed Ladner, Darrel Dearing, Jesse Spears


Past Individual Winners (ineligible to win again for individual):
Russell Sharp, Freek Schepers, Ralf Koelbach,
Jan Paul Koester, Brad Leyte, Mike Mykytyn,
HC2002 Gold Team, Jesse Spears,
Ragnar Emsoy, Byron Audler, Jon Reimer,
Darren Buckley, Saul Jacobs, Tom Wenck


Votes for me, Tony Eischens, won't be counted since I'm running the voting and there is enough trouble avoiding flame wars the way it is.


Please do take the time to vote, even if you are pretty new to the game. Bonus points if you expound upon how great your choices for the 2010 Pooners are and why!

[TonyE]

My votes...

Lifetime: Jon Reimer
Individual: Don Thomas/donaldseadog

The database folks have been awarded a quantity of Pooner awards entirely disproportionate to their numbers. I say that is with good reason for the effort they exert and that makes it easy for me to vote for Jon Reimer for induction as a Lifetime Pooner. He did most of the work behind the MS Access-based editors for both H2/3/ANW and HC/HCE. Russell and I and others have made tweaks and changes but the vast bulk of these masterpieces is Jon's work. To make Microsoft Access accomplish what the editors accomplish is pretty amazing [&o].

Then there is donaldseadog who seemingly came out of nowhere to provide stellar beta testing for the HC code that I write. Not only that but he's been publishing scenarios left and right and encouraging new players as he learns more and more about the game himself. I've never before voted for someone so new to the active community but Don imho deserves this honor even if he happened to stop participating tomorrow (and I highly doubt he will!).

Thank you Jon, and thank you Don

[Anonymous]

My vote:

a) Lifetime Pooner: Rene Haar aka divefreak
(Just saw that my vote for Tony doesn´t count)

For creating and maintaining several excellent HC databases, battleset and for writing HC scens.

b) Pooner of the Year: Don Thomas aka donaldseadog.

A real shooting star; writing one excellent HC scen after another.

Both Rene and Don are gentlemen, real nice guys.

Regards,
Ralf

[jpkoester1]

My votes...

Lifetime: Jon Reimer
Individual: Don Thomas/donaldseadog

[fguerin35]

Hi there,
my votes

Lifetime: Ralf Koelbach
Individual: Frans Koens/Taitennek

Cdr Sylvester

[Meroka37]

Hi,
 
My votes
 
Lifetime: Ralf Koelbach
Don Thomas/donaldseadog

[FreekS]

2010 And Lifetime pooner ( as usual) Herman Hum

For his tireless efforts to keep the game fully tested and provide the best Database and database support

Freek

[roeddog]

My votes
Lifetime: Jon Reimer
Individual: Don Thomas

[Bucks]

Lifetime: Ralf Koelbach
Individual: Frans Koens/Taitennek

Cheers

Darren

[CV32]

Having read the comments here and on HarpGamer over the past week regarding nominations for the 2010 Pooner awards, and mulled them over, I have to admit that I am finding very difficult to disagree with Tony's assessment.

While there are probably several worthwhile candidates this year (and that's a very good thing!), I think I will have to likewise nominate:

Jon Reimer for the Lifetime award

Jon is deserving of this recognition because, as Tony has pointed out, his work made it possible for the community as a whole to build, edit and continuously improve the databases in which the Harpoon computer simulations have their foundation. Notably, this includes both the Harpoon 2/3/ANW and HC/HCG/HCE blood lines, a remarkable thing and something especially worthy of recognition. Without Jon's efforts, my own contributions (and obsessions!) with this sim would be very different and somehow, I have to think, much less enjoyable. A pillar of the Harpoon community like Jon Reimer definitely deserves the Lifetime award.

Don Thomas for the Individual award

While there are a number of folks who regularly contribute to HC/HCE in the way of beta testing, scenario writing, etc, Don seems to stand out when I look back over this past year. Beta testing work, in particular, can be a tedious and largely thankless job, but it is a critical piece of the puzzle and without it this sim could not possibly move forward. Again, as Tony said, Don seemed to be there at just the right times when other folks (myself included) had too much on their plate. And, on top of that, the guy writes scenarios and shares them so that we can all enjoy them. Outstanding.

WTG, Jon and Don! Regardless of whether you win (and I hope you do!), your contributions are very much appreciated.

[Vincenzo_Beretta]

My vote is for the comp.sys.ibm.pc.war-historical newsgroup as "'Pooner of the Year. For the most perceptive, continued, non partisan and insightful analysis of Harpoon over the years, and expecially during difficult times.

[TonyE]

Vince, your post is not appreciated. Not only did you try to place an invalid vote but it is obviously a vitriolic post not at all in the spirit of the Pooner awards. A lump of coal to you.

For everyone who has voted, thank you. For those of you who haven't please do, still more than a week of voting to go and surely many deserving individuals to vote for!

[Bucks]

Tony,

Don't be so hard. Vince just mixed up what he meant to give the vote for... [;)]

He's really voting for comp.sys.ibm.pc.war-historical newsgroup as the group or individual that's done the most to be critical of people's efforts without actually contributing to Harpoon.

Very high noise to signal ratio, message not received...

Cheers

Darren

[TonyE]

Congratulations to the new Pooners!

Jon Reimer for lifetime:
http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonerlifetime.htm

and

Don Thomas for 2010 Pooner:
http://www.harpoonpages.com/pooner2010.htm

Thank you to those who voted and everyone else who contributes to the community!

[JRyan]

Congratulations to the winners!

Jon Reimer was a no brainer, with respect to Tom Wenke.

[TonyE]

Yes, Tom broke the ground and was the first ever to be named Pooner, in 1996.

Hat tip to Jarek Zgoda too for his editor, ah, the good old days [8D]

[CV32]

Congratulations to Jon and Don for their well deserved recognition. [&o]

[Bucks]

Congratulations to both Gentlemen, it's good to see the tradition continue.[:)]

Well done

Darren

[Anonymous]

Congratulations to both, well deserved!

[mikmykWS]

Congrats to you both!