Virtual Beers

Contributing to Foswiki is thirsty work. And every so often, someone in the Community does something outstandingly cool, or puts in a ton of work, or helps you out in a big way. At times like that, you often feel motivated to buy them a beer - hence the Foswiki Virtual Beer award.

We're very practical people, though, so if you award someone a virtual beer, expect to be called on to convert it to a real beer^* when you meet the person face to face!

* If you don't like beer, don't worry! Virtual beers can be freely converted to the vice of your choice e.g. Belgian chocolates, Marmite/vegemite sandwiches, Cuban cigars etc.

Don't forget that giving one person too many virtual beers can give them a sore head.

Caution: please wait at least 8 hours after the consumption of beer before attempting to operate an email client!

Who deserves a beer	Why they deserve it	Who's buying?	Converted?
IsaacLin	for the most awesome re-writing of many topics - ProjectCulture being the first I noticed, and many more since..	SvenDowideit, CrawfordCurrie
CrawfordCurrie	for pointing me to the literal-tag (giving me IRC support)	OliverKrueger	By organising Hannover09
KennethLavrsen	for putting in a huge amount of effort into all the boring renaming / debranding work	KoenMartens, RafaelAlvarez, CrawfordCurrie
MichaelDaum, KennethLavrsen	a whole beer crate for BrandNameQuestionnaireResults	OliverKrueger, CarloSchulz, RafaelAlvarez (not a crate, but surely few beers if I ever meet them), MartinSeibert
MichaelDaum and CarloSchulz	for giving us a new skin identity so quickly	SvenDowideit
CrawfordCurrie, KennethLavrsen and SvenDowideit	for putting so much valuable time in the first Foswiki-release. Awesome!	MartinSeibert
CrawfordCurrie	BuildContrib? is just so cool!	EugenMayer
IsaacLin	For writing javascript for FossyTweets	MichaelCorbett
KennethLavrsen	For ignoring the doubters, and implementing what seems to me to be an excellent approach to Tasks.Item393. Just do it!	CrawfordCurrie	Hannover09
KennethLavrsen	For being persistently driving the release. Keep the momentum, please.	FranzJosefGigler
KennethLavrsen	For not sleeping until the beta1 has been released! What a great job. Thank you!	EugenMayer, MartinSeibert, WillNorris
CrawfordCurrie	For making Foswiki a much more safe program - especially with the taint related improvements	KennethLavrsen	Hannover09
KoenMartens and WillNorris	Koen for the hard work getting the website converted in time for the 1.0.0 release and Will for providing this tailoring of the pattern skin as a contrib so all can benefit from it	KennethLavrsen
OlivierRaginel, EugenMayer, SvenDowideit	For being there almost 24 hours a day during the last week of development before the release. I never felt alone for one minute on this release. It has been hard work but especially these 3 fine developers have been there to help me fix the last urgent issues. Thank you so much.	KennethLavrsen
KennethLavrsen	For going through with this release even though he had some very unfortunate personal circumstances that required him to travel to the other side of the globe. Go Kenneth!	KoenMartens, EugenMayer
KoenMartens	For simply giving us his server!	EugenMayer
ArthurClemens	For his persistent work on this sites skin (and more) making it legible on small screens again!	FranzJosefGigler
MartinSeibert	thanks a lot for allyour efforts on marketing, press releases, demo videos, flickr tour and so on...	CarloSchulz
OlivierRaginel	wow, for fixing all sorts of nasties, like assert_matches, ETP and that other thing I gave you so much shit for	SvenDowideit
ArthurClemens	For not giving up on EditTablePlugin. You have spent many hours of work on this plugin and as someone depending on it in my daily business I am very greatful for this effort.	KennethLavrsen
KennethLavrsen, OlivierRaginel	For allways beeing extremly helpful on #foswiki (no matter how dopey my questions were).	StefanPalm
MichaelDaum	For being extremely helpful with some key clarifications about the ldap contrib which allowed me to nail down the last step of our ldap integration.	IngoKappler
CrawfordCurrie	For spending a lot of time implenting the CSRF protection for 1.0.6. Fantastic job. And a feature that shows the competitors our rear lanterns as we just move forward with the pedal to the metal.	KennethLavrsen
CrawfordCurrie	For solving my Question209 Thank you!!	TorbenGB
MichaelTempest	For amazing patience, fortitude, and exceptional analysis skills in finding and fixing so many Tiny MCE-related problems, and for continuing to apply those skills to the core, to the benefit of us all.	CrawfordCurrie
JensHansen	For driving the process of founding the Foswiki Association. The crate of beer also goes to all of the founding members (virtual beers preferably converted to real ones on the first general assembly).	MichaelDaum
SvenDowideit	For introducing WikiGuest to me	OliverKrueger
KoenMartens	For arranging that we got a new server and for arranging contributions for the funding of it	KennethLavrsen
KoenMartens	For taking the effort and upgrading our site to current shipping version, even if it meant taking some beatings for it.	KennethLavrsen
KennethLavrsen	For driving the 1.0.7 release with all its important bug fixes!	KoenMartens
CrawfordCurrie	For the CSRF protection code, making Foswiki safer than all the other collaboration suites out there together!	KoenMartens	Hannover09
ArthurClemens	For redesigning the Foswiki homepage.	MartinSeibert
MichaelDaum	For taking care of the TWiki- and Foswiki-Tweets on Twitter and helping TWiki-interessees to get to know Foswiki.	MartinSeibert
OliverKrueger	For organising, hosting, running (and paying for) the excellent Foswiki 09 summit. Respect!	CrawfordCurrie
DanielRohde	For helping me with all my HolidaylistPlugin issues. Thanks a lot, really cool!	IngoKappler
SvenDowideit	For putting tegether FoswikiOnaStick? - fantastic - it has really helped me demo the wiki within my place of work......fingers crossed I can get it taken up!!!	NeilGood
AndreUlrich	A long overdue VirtualBeer for working with the pootle people and making http://translate.foswiki.org/ a reality.	WillNorris
PaulHarvey	For continued support and fixes right when you need them. Support under fire, above and beyond unbiased Interfacing of the developer and user communities	CraigBowers
WillNorris	For the new PackageViewTemplate and the Tabbed Extension view. A great step forward in usability of the Extensions support environment.	GeorgeClark
SvenDowideit	For taking the plunge and starting active Foswiki development on a Windows platform	MichaelTempest
GeorgeClark	For the impressive quantity of bug-fixing and general improvements, particularly configure/installer code	PaulHarvey
MichaelTempest	For implementing the Selenium browser-in-the-loop WYSIWYG tests, and numerous difficult WysiwygPlugin? bugs	PaulHarvey
PaulHarvey	For tackling the documentation that ships with Foswiki	MichaelTempest