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As announced by rdkeating25 in http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum1/HTML/004437.html, cptginyu (
) is moving on to a position at WinAmp (It really whips the llama's... ahem), and autumn is coming back to put up with us, I mean, deal with the technical side of the ODP.
We are all grateful to Keith for his massive contributions, you may remember him from such features as a forum search that works, a move @link feature, three tier sorting (allowing us to narrowly avoid Regional/Europe/Countries/United_Kingdom/Sub-Countries/England/Counties/North_Yorkshire), power reviewed edit and the alphabar maker, log chunking, the watchlist, and a timezone feature (which was very cool until it stopped working for me), and for losing all our sites. 
(Just joking, Keith.)
World editors may be especially thankful for World charsets in their forums, the translation utility, and the large collection of new forums.
Some of you may remember *cptginyu* my hero!, which is definitely worth a link here.
Not to mention innumerable bug fixes, editall and meta features, catmods, his contribution to widescale inebriation, and being an all around good sport.
And, of course, no summary would be complete without mentioning the greatest feature of them all, the Kevin Bacon CGI. 
Some of you may know autumn as the person responsible for ChefMoz, and those of you that have been around the ODP a while may also remember her as the person that gave us @link (and mozzie) logging, a cool log and cooling reason field, a new editor log, a delcat log, submission guidelines, a usable sized editor notes box, and many other great features. Oh, and smileys, lots of smileys.
Much thanks Keith, and good luck Autumn.
Since the last issue, the results of two sets of editor awards have been announced.
The results are available at http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum35/HTML/001406.html#item46
With the awards now managed by the meta community, several new novelty categories, perhaps in a small way inspired by the infamous additional 'Biggest Luzer' poll in the previous awards, were added to the proceedings, allowing editors to nominate and vote for the cutest couple, the editor whose name sparks the most gender confusion, and the editor with the oddest nickname. All in the spirit of fun, of course.
Perhaps the hardest awards yet for people to take the results too seriously, these awards saw yours truly deemed the best editor tool, the most prolific penguin cafe poster coming third in the most prolific penguin cafe poster award, samir and not samir winning best World/Bosnian editor, newwave and newwave as the cutest couple, the French in 'impressive' electioneering, bestiality voted best use of a mozzie, robjones coming second for best Adult editor, and merlin1 and robjones demonstrating just how much they are recognised by winning/running-up in most underrecognised editor, and a whole bunch of other awards too. With much hilarity.
Moving on to Spring 2002, and, no, you may not ask why these biannual awards occur in two adjacent seasons, the results were announced at http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum35/HTML/001754.html#item16.
Possibly less entertaining than the last, perhaps the novelty wearing off, but with many categories to nominate and vote in. So many categories, in fact, that the polls were closed and the results aggregated by a computer program; we wouldn't want metas with RSI. newwave continued his reign as biggest luzer; he must be in for a lifetime achievement award next time around. Perhaps the best aspect of these awards were the novelty awards, which you can find at http://enarra.com/spring/s.html. If you weren't nominated, go pick up your award right away, and display it with pride. Thanks go to enarra for developing those, and the other awards.
The Kids and Teens editors decided to throw their own party this year. You can find the results at http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum41/HTML/000208.html#item31. Anyone logging into their dashboard during the voting period cannot have helped but notice (cringe at?) the colourful display in the dashboard note.
There was a low level of novelty in these, the first K&T awards, the only novelty category (most creative editor profile) receiving no nominations, but perhaps next time there will be more opportunity for general silliness -- maybe we could invite pilotchase back. The award graphics were nice, though. (Thanks tweedy7736.)
Congratulations to everyone who was nominated for, or received, an editor award, and thanks to everyone involved in setting them up, creating the polls, and producing the graphics. Here's looking forward to the next editor awards. 
- rpfuller (Newsletter Managing Editor)
