The Chuck Yerkes Award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding individual contributions in online forums over the past year. It was created after Chuck Yerkes' untimely death in 2004 to memorialize the mentorship he provided countless system administrators through his helpful and accurate posts to system administration mailing lists. Each year, an awards committee selects someone who followed Chuck's example in the prior year in their contributions to system administration online forums—whether mailing lists, web forums, or chat rooms.

From 2005–2008, the USENIX Association presented this award. Beginning in 2009, the Chuck Yerkes Award is presented by LOPSA.

2009

The LOPSA awards committee presents the 2009 Chuck Yerkes Award to Luke S. Crawford. Luke's writing has shown the patience, insight, and helpfulness that we should all strive to emulate in providing mentorship online.

2008

The 2008 award goes to Dustin Puryear for his consistently helpful and astute postings on the SAGE member forums.

2007

The 2007 award was shared by Richard Chycoski and Paul Lussier for their unflagging helpfulness on the SAGE member forums.

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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