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 a wiki!

Please add to the end of the list!

Who deserves a beer	When they earned it	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
CrawfordCurrie		For doing thankless tasks that need doing, to the benefit of us all, like updating and rewriting the documentation (in particular: the slow, steady work on CommandAndCGIScripts comes to mind)	MichaelTempest
GeorgeClark		For giving the ReleasePlan some much needed attention and TLC.	MichaelTempest
AndrewJones		For some really quick and good help related to AutoCompletePlugin!	EnrikGuenter
GeorgeClark		For the serious piece of work on Release branch bugs that will make 1.1.3 an even more stable release. And for upgrading f.o. to 1.1.3 without a hacked skin	KennethLavrsen
GeorgeClark	March 2011	For the excellent work George has been doing in the emergency room on triage, resuscitation, and geriatric care.	CrawfordCurrie
Babar & GAC410 in IRC	Apr 2011	Patience of Job dealing with a numpty on a 1.1.3 upgrade epic fail.	BobCorless
OliverKrueger and MichaelDaum	June 2011	For developing the great AutoViewTemplatePlugin. I just noticed it has been working for the last months and making my job easier. Thanks a lot.	GilmarSantosJr
Babar	Sep 2011	For taking care of foswiki.org, upgrading several software packages n stuff. You rock.	MichaelDaum	Geneva11
Babar	Nov 2011	For being such an excellent host for Foswiki Camp 2011	CrawfordCurrie	Geneva11
gac410 pharvey	Nov 2011	For implementing all the weirdest ideas I have, and helping out users when I'm not around as sometimes I have to sleep	OlivierRaginel
GeorgeClark	Dec 2011	Deserves a loud beery cheer for excellent work on keeping the release momentum going, and working to streamline the process with 1.1.4	CrawfordCurrie
GeorgeClark	Jan 2012	Patiently helping me get email working with a new Foswiki installation	NelsonConley
MichaelDaum	May 2012	For his latest extensions, especially TopicInteractionPlugin, althought its name isn't very intention revealing.	FranzJosefGigler
GeorgeClark	May 2012	For his untiring fight against the windmills in form of TinyMCEPlugin and WysiwygPlugin. Don't give up on them.	FranzJosefGigler
GeorgeClark	July 2014	For his great help via the IRC (GAC410), always positive, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and seemingly tireless (the timezone's a killer!)	TrialTest
JozefMojzis, CrawfordCurrie and GeorgeClark	April 2015	To Jozef for reporting configure issues and to Crawford and George for fixing them	FranzJosefGigler
GeorgeClark	July 2015	For giving many plugins the necessary TLC to make them work on Foswiki 2 again, and of course for actually releasing FW 2.0	FranzJosefGigler
GeorgeClark	Oct 2015	For the fantastic piece of work as a release manager driving 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 to get back to the high quality level Foswiki is known for	KennethLavrsen