Confidence for the community
Our MVPs are for the community and will always be glad to help if you have a problem. Feel free to reach out to them and they will do what they can to get you pointed in the right direction.
Brenden Kehren
Owner/Developer at Kehren Development — Sparta, Wisconsin, US
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Partner/Senior Developer — BizStream Grand Rapids, MI USA
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Senior Software Engineer at Heartland Business Systems — Green Bay, Wisconsin, US
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If you think you have what it takes, please review the MVP FAQ or apply for consideration using the self-nomination form below.
Anyone receiving the Kentico Xperience MVP award is entitled to the following benefits:
- Recognition of being a Kentico Xperience MVP
- Exclusive access to Kentico teams
- Access to the closed group of Kentico Xperience professionals on the MVP team
- Early insight into Kentico Xperience strategy and roadmap
- Access to early-versions and betas
- Open channel with Product Owners to provide feedback and influence the development of both products
- Possibility to sharpen presentation skills
- Immediate feedback from other MVPs on proposed problem solutions
- Possibility to learn from MVPs and apply their findings in your projects
- Budget to attend conferences to talk about Kentico Xperience
- Invitation to the annual Kentico Xperience Connection conference
- Teambuilding with other members of MVP team once a year in the Czech Republic
- Kentico Xperience Enterprise Subscription License for personal use (including agency website)
- Kentico Kontent partner subscription for personal use (including agency website)
Having a Kentico Xperience MVP in your team brings many benefits including:
- Recognition of your company as Kentico experts for having an MVP onboard
- Early insights into Kentico strategy and roadmap allowing you to be ahead of your competitors
- Direct access to Kentico teams and possibility to influence the products development
- Faster solutions to problems thanks to the connection to other MVPs
- Recognition of your company at Kentico organized events and conferences
The Kentico Xperience MVP designation is earned through contributing to the developer community and promoting Kentico. Are you a good fit for an MVP? MVPs are:
- Enthusiastic and passionate about Kentico Xperience
- Actively promoting Kentico Xperience on various channels (Medium, Dev.to, Kentico Xperience blog, etc.)
- Open to sharing knowledge about their projects and provide feedback of their experience
- Certified developers for the current version of Kentico Xperience
- Very knowledgable of the Kentico Xperience platform
- Highly skilled problem solvers
- Regularly helping the community and educating others (Slack, Stackoverflow, QA forums, GitHub, etc.)
- Active on social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.)
- Contributing to (not only Kentico) open-source repositories
- Attending industry events such as local meetups, user groups, global conferences and present Kentico Xperience in their talks
- Joining (not only Kentico) podcasts or videos about relevant topics such as Kentico Rocks podcast or DevelopersGarage
- Team players
When we do the evaluation, we love to see MVPs:
- Publish articles about topics relevant to Kentico Xperience
- Be active on DevNet
- Speak at a conference
- Join a podcast or video
- Contribute to Kentico open-source repositories
- Provide feedback and help to Kentico teams
- Be active throughout the whole year
- Be a Kentico Xperience Certified developer on the current version
The selections of Kentico Xperience MVPs are based solely on completed nomination forms. All nominations are weighted on a number of factors that include:
- Engaging in the above listed activities
- Passion, drive and knowledge of Kentico Xperience
- Willingness to contribute to Kentico open source projects
- Willingness to contribute community code and samples to sources like the Kentico Marketplace
- Candidate's geographical location. We prefer to have our MVPs located around the globe to help support the community in all regions.
At the end of each calendar year a panel evaluates each candidate's contributions to identify the most active and engaged indivudals. MVPs are announced each January, recognizing those individuals that have made contributions to the Kentico community and assisted their fellow developers.