Changing the default...

Umbraco got the worlds most friendly community. Period. With more than 5.000 individuals helping each other every month it can be hard to pinpoint who's doing more than others, but there are Umbracians who're putting an almost unbelievable effort in answering questions on the forum, producing killer packages and sharing knowledge in the wiki and blog posts.

To show how much we appreciate their work, we made the Umbraco MVP - Most Valued People (*not* professionals) program in 2007. If you take a look at the ten different people who've previously received the MVP award, I'm sure you'll find out that they helped you when you started with Umbraco and that your Umbraco sites are using their packages.

Previously it was Per and I who decided who got to be MVPs, but last year we decided to change that. Let the people who've received help be the ones who choose the MVPs. So we invented the Karma system on Our and we've used that to make a shortlist of the twenty candidates for the 2010 MVP award:

• Chris Houston
• Chris Koiak
• Dan Drayne
• Darren Ferguson
• Dirk De Grave
• Douglas Robar
• Jan Skovgaard
• Jesper Ordrup
• Lee Kelleher
• Lee Messenger
• Morten Bock
• Nik Wahlberg
• Peter Dijksterhuis
• Petr Snobelt
• Richard Soeteman
• Ron Brouwer
• Sebastiaan Janssen
• Thomas Höhler
• Tim Saunders
• Warren Buckley

Cast your vote before March 1st 2010

To narrow this down to five MVPs, please take your time to vote for your favorite candidate. For more details, please check the voting page on Our Umbraco.

Congratulations to all twenty people who made this list and let the best five win!

Today we've done another update of the umbraco package repo (that's available from the packages tree in the developer section of umbraco). Again we've added some of the best rated/most downloaded projects created by our amazing community.

FamFamFam Icons by Shannon Deminick

Extends the document type icon dropdown with a massive number of icons.

More details on this project on our.umbraco.org.

Log Manager by Immo Wache

Adds a new tree to the developer section that can be used to manage the umbraco log.

More details on this project on our.umbraco.org.

Char Limit

A  datatype that allows you to set a limit on the number of characters that can be entered in a textarea.

More details on this project on our.umbraco.org.

Remember to keep voting on your favorite packages and spread some karma on our.umbraco.org!