{"id":3293,"date":"2011-03-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2011\/03\/17\/kate-gregory-on-being-a-most-valuable-professional-mvp\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:59:25","slug":"kate-gregory-on-being-a-most-valuable-professional-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/kate-gregory-on-being-a-most-valuable-professional-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Gregory on Being a Most Valuable Professional (MVP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/1616.image_346DDDCD.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/1616.image_346DDDCD.png\" alt=\"Kate Gregory on Being an MVP\" title=\"Kate Gregory on Being an MVP\" width=\"104\" height=\"79\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.2011mvpsummit.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2011 MVP Global Summit<\/strong><\/a> took place a few weeks ago at MS headquarters. MVP stands for <em>most valuable professional<\/em>, a distinction that Microsoft assign to some prominent community personalities for their passion and dedication in helping the community get the most out of Microsoft technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mvp.support.microsoft.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">MVP program<\/a> has several disciplines, being C++ one of those. There are about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mvp.support.microsoft.com\/communities\/mvp.aspx?product=1&amp;competency=Visual+C%2b%2b\" rel=\"noopener\">70 C++ MVPs world wide<\/a>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/Charles\/VC-MVP-Summit-Kate-Gregory\" rel=\"noopener\">This<\/a> is the first of a series of interviews Charles Torre (our spy in Channel 9!) did recently to the C++ MVPs who attended the Summit. We start with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gregcons.com\/kateblog\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kate Gregory<\/strong><\/a>, a Canadian C++ MVP who recently was nominated &ldquo;<strong>2010 C++ MVP of the Year<\/strong>&rdquo; for the great job done in presenting sessions on C++ development at several MS conferences including recent and upcoming TechEd&rsquo;s, local codecamps, Channel 9 (we&rsquo;ll be posting some of her technical screencasts) and so forth. Kate is a great <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gregcons.com\/kateblog\/\" rel=\"noopener\">blogger<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/Charles\/VC-MVP-Summit-Kate-Gregory\" rel=\"noopener\">the chat<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 MVP Global Summit took place a few weeks ago at MS headquarters. MVP stands for most valuable professional, a distinction that Microsoft assign to some prominent community personalities for their passion and dedication in helping the community get the most out of Microsoft technologies. The MVP program has several disciplines, being C++ one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,103],"class_list":["post-3293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cplusplus","tag-community","tag-mvp"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The 2011 MVP Global Summit took place a few weeks ago at MS headquarters. MVP stands for most valuable professional, a distinction that Microsoft assign to some prominent community personalities for their passion and dedication in helping the community get the most out of Microsoft technologies. The MVP program has several disciplines, being C++ one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}