Easy Come, Easy Go........ (sung as "Bye Bye Mr. MVP Guy"....)
It was too good to last.....
Alas, Microsoft has revoked (actually just "not" awarded) the
MVP award to me again this year. Oh well. I guess it wasn't meant to be. I figured receiving it last year was a fluke anyway.
Actualy...........................I'm not the only one............................ Originally,
MVP awards were given to people who spent time in public newsgroups answering questions for other end users. MS wanted to reward these folks for their "free technical support" of their products.Viola! The MVP program was born. So that's basically the way it was for several years, until last year. Apparently somewhere, somehow, the "powers that be" decided to expand the program a little and include some of us folks who don't participate in the newsgroups, and work out in the community through user groups. (hence
INETA) So many of us INETA folks were given MVP awards for 2004.
Well...................run things ahead to one year later.......... Things are different now. Apparently feelings have changed, and the work that we do with .NET user groups doesn't quite make the cut for being awarded the MVP this year. When I sat down the make out the list of accomplishments in the community for 2004, I was amazed at how much had occurred throughout the year, and how many people I had managed to touch. It certainly dwarfed anything that I had done in 2003 for the .NET community. I was quite proud of the list. But the things on my list don't show up anywhere on the MVP renewal checklist. Oh well. No big deal.
It was certainly neat to be rewarded for our hard work this year. But it certainly isn't why we do it. We do it because we like interacting with people, and promoting the spirit of community. And looking back, it is probably for the best because once we were all in the program, it was as if they didn't really know what to do with us anyway. So I guess I'll just keep rockin' along and doing what I do.
-Eric.