Congrats to Earl! Much deserved! -Laura On Oct 27, 2008, at 5:39 AM, Bryan Ruby wrote:
I just visited Packt Publishing's award page and found that Earl Miles (merlinofchaos) was voted as one of the Most Valued People from Open Source Content Management Systems (try wearing that title on a T-shirt!). There are other projects besides Drupal listed. What I found interesting is that most of the MVPs for projects were the projects' lead/founder. Perhaps that says something about Drupal truly being community driven. Link at: http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-cms-most-valued-people-announced .
PacktPub.com <http://www.packtpub.com> has been accepting MVP nominations since early July and for the majority of Content Management Systems, there were a number of candidates that received enthusiastic support. This demonstrates how many different people are key to the sucess of a CMS and how difficult it is to select an individual as the person who has contributed the most.
The following list of names were put forward by members of the Content Management System's development team and community and represent the exceptional support, guidance, and sheer amount of time that the MVPs have given up to support the development and growth of the respective CMS.
Congratulations to those who were selected as the first annual Open Source CMS MVPs.
BryanSD