2015 Q3-Q4 Top Contributors and What Comes Next

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!
 

2015 Q3 Top Contributors

Meera Prince
Liferay & Java Sr. Technical Consultant, IAMSURAJ
 
Denis Signoretto
Project Manager & Java Developer, Intesys S.r.l.
 
Lauri Hiltunen
Software developer, Ambientia
 

2015 Q4 Top Contributors

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!
 

Coming Soon: Liferay 7 and the Ultimate Challenge

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!
Blogs
Liferay-7 seems a lot promising ... the same goose bumps when i first saw the responsive UI and changes in 6.2 ... but this time it seems much bigger.

And finally a big kudos to all the Contributors!! Thank you, surely without people like you the word "community" has little value.