What is the Dapr Meteors program? 🌠
Dapr Meteors make a big impact in the Dapr community! The Dapr Meteors program is brought to life to recognize and celebrate the contributions of experts within the Dapr community. These individuals have demonstrated exceptional knowledge and are regularly found orbiting the Dapr ecosystem. By highlighting their achievements, the program aims to foster a sense of community and encourage more people to get involved with Dapr.
Requirements ✅
Dapr Meteors are selected based on their active involvement and impact within the Dapr community. This can include contributions such as writing blog posts, creating videos, speaking at conferences and meetups, helping people on Dapr Discord, or contributing documentation or code to the Dapr OSS project itself.
Benefits 🤩
Being recognized as a Dapr Meteor comes with several benefits:
- Participate in Dapr OSS planning calls to help prioritize Dapr features and collaborate directly with the Dapr OSS team.
- Join regular calls with the Dapr maintainers to provide feedback and ask questions.
- The profiles of Dapr Meteors are shared on the Dapr website, so they gain increased visibility and credibility within the tech community.
- Receive unique and amazing Dapr swag!
- Have access to a budget used for organizing local Dapr meetups.
Community ❤️
We have an incredible Dapr community distributed across the globe! The strength of our community lies in its members’ commitment to being kind and respectful towards one another, even when viewpoints may differ. By valuing each other’s contributions and offering support, the community ensures that everyone feels welcome and empowered to share their ideas. This culture of respect and kindness not only enhances the overall experience for all members but also drives the continuous growth and success of the Dapr ecosystem.
How to become a Dapr Meteor? 📝
Participation is done via (self)nomination via this form. Twice a year, in the first week of April and October, nominees are reviewed and Dapr Meteors are selected by the Dapr community managers and the sponsors. Dapr Meteors are selected for the duration of one year. After this duration, participants can self nominate again
The Dapr Meteors program is sponsored by
Meet the Meteors 🌠
Alex Mang
Alex Mang is a Microsoft Regional Director, Azure Most Valuable Professional, working as a cloud architect, consultant, trainer, software developer but also regularly seen at conferences and user groups speaking mostly on cloud-computing topics. His main goal is to help developers better understand the implications of cloud-computing as a whole, from as many perspectives as possible. Alex was invited three times in a row as a featured speaker at Microsoft Ignite, the company’s largest and most important technical conference gathering nearly 35,000 attendees. Since 2011, Alex runs KeyTicket Solutions, a company focused on democratizing access control, ticketing and management solutions for every single vertical in the world. For his experience on cloud-driven solutions, his Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Certified Solution Associate (MCSA) and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) stand as proof and so do the many happy customers he had the pleasure to work with for the past many years.
Edwin van Wijk
I have been working in IT since 1999 and I’m currently working as Principal Solution Architect, managing consultant and Microsoft Community Lead at Info Support in The Netherlands. I’m a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Technologies category (since 2016). My primary areas of expertise are: building distributed systems, systems integration, (cloud-native) software architecture and patterns, software craftsmanship, .NET (Core) development, Azure and DevOps. I love sharing my experience and knowledge about these subjects by training people, publishing videos and speaking at conferences.
Sander Molenkamp
Sander Molenkamp is a principal cloud architect and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 25 years of professional experience. He works for Info Support designing and developing customer solutions using cloud native architectures. Sander is also an accomplished speaker, having shared his insights and expertise at numerous international conferences. He is passionate about technology and freely shares his knowledge through the dotnetFlix YouTube channel. Furthermore, Sander actively contributes to the organization of multiple free community events, including the Dutch Azure Meetup, Azure Fest, and Bitbash. In his free time, Sander enjoys traveling, is (still) learning to play the ukelele, and tinkers with technology and LEGO. He has also defeated the sword master of Mêlée Island™️.
Will Velida
Will is a Lead Software Engineer at Mantel Group, where he helps customers build reliable and resilient applications using Microsoft Azure, and loves using serverless and container technologies. Will has extensive experience in software development, building solutions in the financial, health and agricultural industries. Will is a Microsoft MVP for Cloud Native Technologies, and was part of the Fast Track for Azure team during his time at Microsoft. Will regularly speaks at conferences, user groups and developer events around the world. When he is away from his keyboard, you’ll find him hiking around the countryside.