{"id":18139,"date":"2015-04-20T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2015-04-20T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:41:05","slug":"a-warm-welcome-to-the-newest-xamarin-mvps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/a-warm-welcome-to-the-newest-xamarin-mvps\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warm Welcome to the Newest Xamarin MVPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MVP-Badge3\" alt=\"Xamarin MVP\" width=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-16407\" \/>Just a few months ago we announced the continued expansion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/xamarin.com\/mvp\" target=\"_blank\">Xamarin MVP program<\/a> by welcoming the first round of Xamarin MVPs for 2015. These individuals have made significant contributions by sharing their passion and expertise in mobile app development with the expanding global Xamarin community. We honor these individuals with the Xamarin MVP title for these contributions, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing great articles, books, and blog posts<\/li>\n<li>Speaking in public and online<\/li>\n<li>Sharing and building amazing libraries<\/li>\n<li>Helping developers online in our <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\">forums<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xamarinhq\">Twitter<\/a>, Stack Overflow, and other communities<\/li>\n<li>Shipping awesome apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re thrilled to recognize the following new Xamarin MVPs for their remarkable contributions to the community!<\/p>\n<p>.tg  {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;}\n.tg td{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding:15px 10px;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;}\n.tg th{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;padding:15px 10px;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;}\n.tg .tg-s6z2{text-align:center}<\/p>\n<table class=\"tg\">\n<tr>\n<th class=\"tg-031e\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/mvp_ekberg.png\" alt=\"filip\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16444\" \/><\/th>\n<th class=\"tg-s6z2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fekberg\" title=\"Filip on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Ekberg<\/a><\/th>\n<th class=\"tg-031e\"><\/th>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-s6z2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/patridgedev\" title=\"Adam on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Patridge<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/mvp_patrdige.png\" alt=\"adam\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16445\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/mvp_ridland.png\" alt=\"michael\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16446\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-s6z2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rid00z\" title=\"Michael on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Ridland<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-s6z2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/danrigby\" title=\"Dan on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Rigby<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/mvp_rigby.png\" alt=\"rigby\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16447\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/mvp_silva.png\" alt=\"silva\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16448\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-s6z2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/saramgsilva\" title=\"Sara on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Silva<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-s6z2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/seansparkman\" title=\"Sean on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Sparkman<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/mvp_sparkman.png\" alt=\"spakrman\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16449\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/mvp_wolf.png\" alt=\"wolf\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16450\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-s6z2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/adamjwolf\" title=\"Adam on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Wolf<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"tg-031e\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you know an outstanding developer who would make a great Xamarin MVP, please <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/xamarin.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?formkey=dF9KdnZNMWZ4QU5HNlhzRU1wTW1fQ0E6MQ#gid=0\">nominate him or her here<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few months ago we announced the continued expansion of the Xamarin MVP program by welcoming the first round of Xamarin MVPs for 2015. These individuals have made significant contributions by sharing their passion and expertise in mobile app development with the expanding global Xamarin community. We honor these individuals with the Xamarin MVP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":39167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-18139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","tag-xamarin-platform"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Just a few months ago we announced the continued expansion of the Xamarin MVP program by welcoming the first round of Xamarin MVPs for 2015. These individuals have made significant contributions by sharing their passion and expertise in mobile app development with the expanding global Xamarin community. We honor these individuals with the Xamarin MVP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}