Voting Open for the MongoDB Community Awards
For three weeks, we invited members of the MongoDB community to nominate candidates for awards in three categories—Community Champion, Innovative Application, and MongoDB Contributor. Dozens of nominations were submitted from MongoDB users around the world.
After considerable deliberation, 10gen employees picked finalists in each of the three categories. However, it will once again be left to the MongoDB user community to choose the grand prize winners via online voting. The competition for recognition is expected to be fierce, and each vote is important. After reading the following list of award candidates, we invite you to
vote on category winners
.
Community Champion
This award recognizes an individual for their efforts evangelizing and growing the MongoDB community.
Nathen Harvey
is the manager of Web Operations for CustomInk.com and the co-organizer of the
Washington DC MongoDB Users Group
and DevOps DC. As organizer of the DC MUG, Nathen has been instrumental in growing the group to 250 members in one year through consistent meetings, detailed event summaries, and good beer.
Takahiro Inoue
is the leader of the MongoDB user community in Japan, having founded the Japan MongoDB User Group, now at over 600 members, and has organized seven MongoDB seminars in Tokyo. Takahiro
blogs
about MongoDB frequently, is working on the first Japanese-language MongoDB book, and helped develop
Treasure Data
’s
Fluentd
, an advanced open-source log collector.
Karl Seguin
is a developer with experience across various fields and technologies. With respect to MongoDB, he was a core contributor to the C# MongoDB library NoRM, wrote the
interactive tutorial mongly
, the Mongo Web Admin and
the free Little MongoDB Book
.
Rick Copeland
is a Lead Software Engineer at SourceForge, where he developed the
Python ODM Ming
, led the effort to rewrite and open source
Allura
(the developer tools portion of the SourceForge site on the Python/MongoDB platform), and created the
Zarkov
realtime analytics framework. He is a frequent speaker at MongoDB events and an avid MongoDB enthusiast.
Innovative Application
This award recognizes a company or individual who has built an innovative application using MongoDB.
MongoPress
is an open source, MongoDB-based CMS, developed by Mark Smalley. MongoPress uses PHP and jQuery to offer a NoSQL alternative which is easy to use (even for beginners) and offers a high-performance and more lightweight alternative to WordPress.
Cascade
is a tool developed by the NYTimes R&D Lab that links browsing behavior on a site to sharing activity to create a map of information as it is spread and shared through social networks. Initially applied to New York Times stories and information, the tool is widely applicable and can help us to understand how messages spread in the online space.
Cube
is an open-source system for visualizing time series data, built on MongoDB, Node and D3. If you send Cube timestamped events (with optional structured data), you can easily build realtime visualizations of aggregate metrics for internal dashboards. Cube was developed and open sourced by
Square Inc
.
MongoDB Contributor
This award recognizes a community member for significant contribution to the codebase of the MongoDB core server, language drivers, or tools.
Gustavo Niemeyer
is a developer at Canonical, and in his free time, Gustavo is a contributor to Google’s Go language and the author of the
mgo
(mango), the MongoDB driver for Go. He also designed the Geohash concept that is used internally by MongoDB.
Nat Lueng
is a Singapore-based MongoDB user. In addition to bug fixes and small enhancement in the MongoDB core, C# driver, and Java driver, Nat is prolific on the free support forums, including 2,700+ posts to date.
LearnBoost
is an education startup built on node.js and MongoDB. The team, particularly Guillermo Rauch and Aaron Heckmann, built
Mongoose
, a popular MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment.
Visit our
voting form
to weigh in on these candidates until 1:30 PST on December 9th. We’ll announce the winners at the conclusion of
MongoSV
.
December 6, 2011