Congratulations to the winners of the first 2015 Semi-Annual GeoNet Contest!

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We would like to announce the winners of the first 2015 Semi-Annual GeoNet Contest held from February 1st - June 30th. This contest runs during the first and second half of the year. There is also a year long contest for our grand prizes. You can read more on this in Get involved in the new 2015 GeoNet Contest​.

There are many users that help encourage discussions, provide answers, and share knowledge throughout the community. They dedicate their time to assisting others so that they can enhance their experience with GIS and Esri products. We would like to especially thank a few of our members who have excelled as our top participants.

Our winners will be receiving a variety of prizes as outlined in the 2015 GeoNet Contest Prizes​. Some of these prizes include Amazon gift cards, Esri Certification Exams, ArcGIS Home Use Licenses, Esri Virtual Training, and Esri Press books.

Within the community they will be awarded the 2015 MVP Badge that they can display on their profile and in their Me in Three​​. They will also get an "MVP Champion" icon beside their name as seen below:

MVP Badge

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Champion Icon

And now let's put our hands together and congratulate our top ten winners:

  1. Robert Scheitlin, GISP
  2. Dan Patterson
  3. Sephe Fox
  4. Rebecca Strauch
  5. Darren Wiens
  6. Tim Witt
  7. Stan McShinsky
  8. Chris Sergent
  9. Curtis Price
  10. Tom Sellsted

Thank you all for your contribution to the community!

Are you wanting to get in on the second semi-annual contest? Check out Announcement | Second 2015 Semi-Annual GeoNet Contest​.

27 Comments
IanMurray
Frequent Contributor

Congrats to all the winners!  Apparently I was just outside the top 10 (once you excluded ESRI staff).  Curious where I actually ended up. 

XanderBakker
Esri Esteemed Contributor

First of all congratulations to all of you!

Since I work for Esri (Colombia), I'm not among the winners (I ended 4th), but that was something I knew from the start. The reason you don't see the Esri icon next to my user account is that I started to contribute to the forums long before I joined Esri. I haven't changed my account for 2 reasons, the accumulated points I have up to now (don't want to start over) and the contributions I make, I do (mostly) in my free time. I don't get any compensation from Esri for doing this.

I have always said that contributing to GeoNet (and the former forums) has been an experience in which I have learned a lot. However, I feel somehow a bit disappointed that some of use that ended up there don't get the recognition they deserve IMHO...

edit: the icon would have been nice...

RebeccaStrauch__GISP
MVP Emeritus

If it helps at all.....we all appreciate those of you that work for esri and still contribute to the forums.  fwiw.

DanPatterson_Retired
MVP Emeritus

In the mail

SepheFox
Frequent Contributor

Isn't it possible to change your email/account settings without losing the points? I think I'd rather have an ESRI globe than the MVP icon, but maybe that's just me

JayantaPoddar
MVP Esteemed Contributor

Congratulations Everyone!!!

I agree with Xander Bakker​. Even I am using my personal id for GeoNet as I want to contribute and learn from the forum even when I am not a part of Esri (India). It's great to have a bunch of you GeoGeeks in the forum, especially the non-Esri contributors.

Thanks,

Jay

XanderBakker
Esri Esteemed Contributor

Hi Jayanta Poddar , you finished right behind me. I am a bit surprised that you are not in the list of winners. Do you know what happened in your case?

XanderBakker
Esri Esteemed Contributor

Hi Sephe Fox , for me it is the other way around. Since my activities on GeoNet are not part of my (official) activities for Esri, I prefer to keep that separated. I'm sure it would be possible, but in case that I would no longer work for Esri, I'm sure I will still keep working with ArcGIS, since it is the only thing I know (and the only thing I would be interested to work in)...

SepheFox
Frequent Contributor

What I'm saying is... I wouldn't mind a job with esri I can totally see how you may want to keep your work life separate from your online life though, if you are not posting in an official capacity.

SepheFox
Frequent Contributor

You work for esri too, Jay? I had no idea. All these secret esri employees!

JayantaPoddar
MVP Esteemed Contributor

Xander Bakker​ / Sephe Fox​,

Yeah guys.... I am currently working for Esri India (Distributor of Esri)

Great organization to start my career with.

SatyanarayanaNarmala
New Contributor III

Congratulations to all the winners.

SachinKanaujia
Occasional Contributor III

Congratulations. More power to all contributors and admins of Geonet

TimWitt2
MVP Alum

Thanks, it is always nice to help people!

DavidBarnes
Occasional Contributor III

Congratulations to the winners! And a big Thank You! And thank you to everyone else who participates around here!

I try to contribute when I believe I have something worth saying or an answer to a question. Which isn't as often as I'd like. I also try to get an idea of what kinds of things you guys are doing and where you're running into issues in the parts of the softwares I deal with. We do listen, even if it doesn't always seem like it. You all are the reason we are here.

RobertScheitlin__GISP
MVP Emeritus

Ditto. Congrats to all the winners and especially to those esri folks that receive no reward for there diligent efforts to help this thriving community.

ChrisSergent
Regular Contributor III

Agreed. I don't know if they are required to help, but the effort is awesome and you just can't require that.

SkipRepetto
New Contributor II

Big congrats to the winners and for all you do within  our community.  Also a huge hurrah to my ADFG  colleague, rastrauch

Thank you for all the knowledge you;ve shared with me over the past, oh what is it 13 years!

RebeccaStrauch__GISP
MVP Emeritus

Thanks Skip.....time for you to start contributing too!

AsrujitSengupta
Regular Contributor III

Well, it was never about the icon or a badge for me. It started out as something to keep myself occupied during my spare time and now I try and answer when I can. But surely I have learnt a lot more outside my area of interest, than I could by studying myself.

The Badges or the Icons were a way to quickly get an idea about how 'Senior' the member was and how many Correct answers they have already provided(it used to show in the earlier Forums). I believe, this gave an assurance of some sort to the member seeking an answer.

I had my apprehensions about GeoNet in the beginning, but have slowly gotten used to it now and kinda like it more than the previous forums.

Everything being said, Congratulations to the winners and Best of Luck to others!

MicahBabinski
Occasional Contributor III

Well done! I'm a huge geonet fan. It's a great resource for people working with Esri software.

JoeBorgione
MVP Emeritus

Congratulations to all the winners!  I find your comments, ideas and solutions helpful.

RakeshSinha
Occasional Contributor

Congratulations  to all the winners!

Xander, I totally agree with you. I use to be a part of Esri (Redlands) tech support but chose to use my personal id just to avoid any confusions. To be honest I created this new Id after leaving Esri support. Though I may not be a part of Esri anymore but I still love working with ArcGIS and specially Esri Business Analyst applications.

SteveLynch
Esri Regular Contributor
VenusScott
Occasional Contributor III

Congratulations to everyone! You are all winners in my book!

RavindraSingh
Occasional Contributor

congratulations... to all contributors...

KimberlyVilimas
New Contributor III

Now I have a new life goal. I MUST ATTAIN THIS LEVEL OF GREATNESS.

About the Author
Timothy Hales is a Senior Education Specialist for Esri Training Services developing instructor-led and web courses. Before developing training content for Training Services, he was the Enterprise Community Manager for Esri Community (GeoNet).