VMware vExpert announcement
VMware yesterday announced the creation of a new community based award called VMware vExpert. The following is a quote from John Troyer’s post on the VMTN Blog site
VMware is very proud to introduce the VMware vExpert Awards. The VMware vExpert Awards will be given to individuals who have significantly contributed to the overall community of VMware users over the past year, either online or offline. You might be contributing online to blogs, forums, wikis, or other online sites. You might be organizing VMUG meetings or otherwise getting the word out to local IT professionals. You’re helping spread the word about virtualization and making people successful in deploying this game-changing technology. We want to thank you.
Now simply for comparision purposes this is similar to Microsoft’s MVP, rewarding people who specialise in the virtualisation/virtualization field. People who actively participate in the community and spread the good word about this exciting technology sector. VMware are keen that a direct comparison is not made between the MVP and VMware vExpert as you can see from John’s comments below.
The VMware vExpert program will likely get talked about as “VMware’s MVP,” and while we’d like to acknowledge inspiration from Microsoft’s very successful program, please don’t compare them directly. Microsoft MVP has been going on for over a decade and includes a 4-day conference — and the vExpert won’t even get you a free ticket to VMworld!
Our first goal simply is to publicly thank you and acknowledge all the hard work you’ve been doing on behalf of virtualization and VMware. That being said, when you get this award you’ll be visible to various teams inside VMware and may be tapped to participate in various activities.
Now I’m quite new to blogging about virtualisation and I am actively trying to get more involved in the community at large, whether that be through this site, twitter or the VMware communities website. This new award is something that I would like to work towards through 2009, it’s a nice goal to have and will keep me motivated to continue blogging about virtualisation. You would be amazed at the amount of time it actually takes to keep up to date with this fast moving sector and take time to write unique quality content.
There are at present a lot of very, very good people out there in the community, I certainly have a few nominations I will be submitting myself. If you have someone you would like to nominate follow the link to the nomination form
