At the book club meeting tonight there was a short discussion about being a Microsoft MVP. This got me to thinking… do we all know our MVPs? Do we even know what an MVP is? For those of us who don’t know, an MVP is an outstanding member of the technical community. These outstanding people are recognized by Microsoft for their willingness to participate and help other community members. These are the smart people around the world who write the interesting articles, newsgroup postings, and websites that we all read when we need help. *MVPs are not tested for their technical skills, this award recognizes only their community service efforts.
We have a ton of these folks in the Atlanta/Georgia area. I wanted to try to list a few of them out, but this is going to be an incomplete list as this information is not necessarily easy to come by. My apologies in advance for anyone who got left out or mistakenly credited for living in Atlanta. If you know something is off in this list, please comment on this post and I’ll update the main list.
Jim Behning – Small Business Server
Dave Bernard – Visual Foxpro
Tom Bishop – Tablet PC
Dana Coffey - ASP/ASP.Net
Thomas Divine – Windows Embedded
Mark Dunn – Visual Basic.Net
James Hambleton – Windows Embedded
Geoff Hiten – SQL Server
Teo Lachev – SQL Reporting Services
Dennis Rice – Tablet PC
Michael Sanford – Windows Server SDK
Jerold Schulman – Windows 2000
James Shaw – ASP/ASP.NET
Shawn Wildermuth – C#
Paul Wilson – ASP/ASP.NET
— Matt Ranlett