{"id":8691,"date":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officedevblogs.wpengine.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","slug":"extending-sharepoint-pnp-team-with-new-mvp-community-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/extending-sharepoint-pnp-team-with-new-mvp-community-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending SharePoint Patterns and Practices team with new MVP community members"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"PnP<\/p>\n

We are happy to announce\u00a0additional community members being included in\u00a0the SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) team. We are really excited to grow the team, which will help us to address growing interest in the SharePoint\u00a0community and development topics. Starting from this week, SharePoint PnP team has been extended with\u00a0Mikael Svenson<\/a> (Puzzlepart),\u00a0Andrew Connell<\/a> (Voitanos), and Andrew Koltyakov<\/a>\u00a0(ARVO Systems). They are all well-known MVPs who have been active in different areas of the SharePoint\u00a0PnP community effort for a long time.<\/p>\n

SharePoint Patterns and Practices\u00a0Team coordinates the open-source and community driven work for\u00a0SharePoint development<\/a> topics in Github<\/a>. This work is supervised by the SharePoint engineering, but SharePoint development community MVPs are closely involved in the day-to-day activities. SharePoint PnP has numerous\u00a0open source components<\/a> and controls,\u00a0which are being built together with the community. SharePoint PnP team also coordinates SharePoint development samples, documentation, and other guidance.<\/p>\n

Existing SharePoint PnP team community members are\u00a0Erwin van Hunen<\/a> (Rencore),\u00a0Paolo Pialorsi<\/a> (Piasys.com),\u00a0Radi Atanassov<\/a> (OneBit),\u00a0Waldek Mastykarz<\/a> (Rencore) and\u00a0Elio Struyf<\/a> (Valo Intranet). We are further looking into extending the team from the people who have been\u00a0active and closely involved in the SharePoint Dev community activities under the SharePoint Patterns and\u00a0Practices initiative.<\/p>\n

Introduction of new SharePoint PnP team members<\/h2>\n

Meet Andrew Connell<\/h3>\n

\"Andrew\"<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Andrew C. with his own words.<\/p>\n

Andrew Connell is a full stack web developer with a focus on Microsoft Azure & Office 365, specifically the Office 365 APIs, SharePoint, Microsoft’s .NET Framework \/ .NET Core, Angular, Node.js and Docker that enjoys development, writing & teaching\u2026 if it\u2019s cutting edge web you will find Andrew there! He has received Microsoft\u2019s MVP award every year since 2005 and has helped thousands of developers through the various courses he\u2019s authored and taught both in-person & in online courses. Recently he launched his own on-demand video platform, Voitanos<\/a>\u00a0to deliver his on-demand video training.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout the years Andrew has been fortunate enough to share what he has learned at conferences like Microsoft\u2019s TechEd, Build, Ignite & SharePoint conferences, Angular\u2019s ngConf & AngularU, SPTechCon, SP Live 360, and Techorama among many others all around the world in North America, Europe, Asia & Australia. You can find Andrew on his popular blog (http:\/\/www.andrewconnell.com<\/a>), follow him on Twitter @andrewconnell<\/a>, check out some of the numerous projects he\u2019s involved in on GitHub (http:\/\/www.github.com\/andrewconnell<\/a>) or listen to his popular weekly podcast, The Microsoft Cloud Show (http:\/\/www.microsoftcloudshow.com<\/a>), which is focused on Microsoft cloud services such as Azure and Office 365 as well as the competitive cloud landscape.<\/em><\/p>\n