TL;DR - We are recognizing your growing contributions and leadership in our community with a new MVP program alongside the SplunkTrust.
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Splunk Community MVPs program, which will sit alongside our existing SplunkTrust program. The SplunkTrust will always recognize the best, set the highest standard, and be our most elite MVP-style program, recognizing our top contributors across all community areas; our new Splunk Community MVPs will join our MVP programs to recognize and reward a broader collection of top contributors in each community area.
Once upon a time, there was a fez. And the fez was brilliant; the fez was inspiring; the fez represented our SplunkTrust… our most esteemed and most contributing community leaders. The first cohort of 22 members were inducted at .conf2015, and the most recent cohort of 69 members were inducted at .conf21. We are proud to continue to recognize and reward our highest and most esteemed community of valuable contributors with our SplunkTrust program, and the fez will always signify these members across our community spaces.
With all respect and praise to the fez… when we look across these programs and spaces, we can’t help but notice hundreds of community members standing out and stepping up. The fact is, our Splunk Community has grown and flourished in so many fabulous ways. In just the last two years, we’ve launched a new technology platform for Community, a new platform for User Groups, and welcomed the Community Slack workspace (finally!) into the fold of official programs. Splunk has also continued its own meteoric rise and growth with new products, new solutions, and even new companies as part of the growing family. And so it makes sense that we’ve seen thousands of new customers and new community members join our programs in recent years.
Amidst all of the growth - across Splunk and across our Splunk Community - we
wanted to say that… WE SEE YOU! We see SO many of you posting, engaging, solving, and contributing in even more diverse and numerous ways. In fact, YOUR growth has been so tremendous that we feel we simply must recognize and reward even more of you for this! So while our SplunkTrust will always remain as our most elite program, we’re so stoked to have it be joined by this new one, welcoming and recognizing so many more.
How do I become a Splunk Community MVP?
Chances are, you’re already well on your way! This program looks across all areas of community contributions, prioritizing engagement and support, in whatever areas you might be most passionate about. Do you love answering questions about Splunk SOAR in Splunk Answers? That’s one way! Driving fabulous engagement in your Splunk User Group? That’s another way! Rockin’ out the Slack contributions? Yep, that could definitely score you an invite! Are you contributing some amazing technical content in our blogs and Tech Talks? Yep, even that. The beauty of this tier is that it can help recognize stand-out contributions in even a single area, and it will recognize hundreds of members overall.
Twice each year, we’ll review these kinds of contributions alongside specific selection criteria (sorry, the specifics are secret to help avert gaming the system!), and we’ll send special invitations to community members that qualify.
What are the perks and responsibilities as a Splunk Community MVP?
Why should I say “yes”? As an MVP, the expectations are few, and the rewards are many. First, if invited, we hope you’ll continue engaging in the ways you have been or look to grow them even more. We want to provide you the limelight and recognition with a special community badge, upgraded permissions, featured content contributions, and of course… some rad swag. We ask that MVPs continue to be culture carriers of our Splunk community ideals, lead by example to bolster the community, and participate in advocacy opportunities to highlight their successes with Splunk.
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Keep engaging and keep an eye on your inbox!
Again, participation is totally optional, but if you meet the criteria and receive an invite, and if you want to join the program, we’d love to have you! So keep up the great community engagement, and you might receive that special invitation very soon. We can’t wait to introduce you to our first group of Splunk Community MVPs!
-- Jason Hupka (a.k.a. "snooplogg"), Sr. Community Trust & MVP Manager
