Back in 2012 we began a quarterly program to recognize those of you who have over the years contributed more to Liferay than your average open source enthusiast. Each quarter we recognize the top contributors and the last 2 quarters are no different. These individuals have contributed code, blogs, helped out on the forums, and generally improved the Liferay community during the second half of last year!

 

Meera Prince

Liferay & Java Sr. Technical Consultant, IAMSURAJ

 

Denis Signoretto

Project Manager & Java Developer, Intesys S.r.l.

 

Lauri Hiltunen

Software developer, Ambientia

 

Matti Tahvonen

Sr. Vaadin Expert, Vaadin

 

Abhishek Kumar

Sr. Liferay Developer, Albero Technology

 

More details about each of these individuals can be found on the Liferay Developer Network's Contributors page!

 

As you all know, Liferay 7 is right around the corner. If you've been participating in the Community Expedition, you'll be very familiar with the awesome changes in architecture, tools, and possibilities that are introduced with the new release, which is almost upon us. If you're not, sign up today!

 

Those changes I hope will also have a profound impact on our open source community, and I believe we can and should take advantage of it as much as possible. As I discussed during my community talk @ DevCon, we are working on a new program for recognizing rockstars in our community. This will essentially be a much more realtime and fine-grained way to recognize those who continue to do what they do - give a little back to the community through a variety of methods.

 

We'll have much more detail on this as we get closer to the release, but it will be effectively taking the place of our quarterly top contributors going forward. Participation, contribution, and the awesome feeling one gets when they share knowledge is what I believe drives our community, and we will crank it way up in the very near future. Exciting times ahead!