Announcing the 2009 Q1 VM /ETC UGG & UGH Winners
April 6th, 2009 | 
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I’m proud to recognize the first ever VM /ETC Ugly Green Guru (UGG) and Ugly Green Hero (UGH) award winners. Regular readers will recall I announced these new quarterly awards for Top Commenters on vmetc.com when VMware announced the vExpert program this past January.
So without further delay the 2009 Q1 winners with number of comments are:
- Sean Clark – 13 – UGG
- Carlo Costanzo – 8 – UGH
- Jason Boche – 7 – UGH
- Tom02010 – 6 – UGH
- Martin Lohmeijer – 5 – UGH
- David Marshall – 4 – UGH
- Dracolith – 4 – UGH
The winners will receive an email from me this week requesting a shipping address and a t-shirt size. I’ll get the shirts delivered from Cafepress.com as quick as possible. Click the shirt image to see the back of the shirt too.
Special recognition goes to Sean Clark as the first ever Ugly Green Guru. Follow Sean on Twitter, Disqus, VMworldunderground.com, and his blog.
The reader with the most comments each quarter earns Ugly Green Guru status and will receive a unique t-shirt with UGG on the pocket instead of UGH (as pictured).
I originally thought I could lean on the Disqus plugin to track my Top Commenters, but after exporting my Comments table from the MySQL WordPress database I realized several regular readers of VM /ETC did not accurately show up in the Disqus system. This was because they never claimed their free profile at Disqus. Anyways, I decided to award 7 winners this time, but I will most likely limit future winners to the top 5. I highly recommend claiming your Disqus profile and checking out their service.
The comment count started over as of the start of Q2 so comment on the posts here at VM /ETC and knock Sean off the Guru thrown! Comments do not need to be technical in nature, but in the event of a tie or an obvious attempt to cheat the system I reserve the right to make a final call. Be sure to use the same email address for each comment as that will be the data I tally the winners against. I need your email so I can contact you if you win.
If you are not big on commenting but just have to have a VM /ETC t-shirt check out my CafeExpress.com store and order one of several different styles for yourself. I’ve recently added a $13 value shirt to the inventory. You can even grab a UGH shirt, but I’m keeping the UGG version exclusive to contest winners. 
As always, thanks to all the readers who comment on vmetc.com posts!
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Thanks Rich. These are great.
He's right about comments not having to be technical. And please someone, don't let me win this in Q2. I don't want to get the UGS (Ugly Green Stalker) award from Rich next time around.
Thanks, Rich. Thanks, Disqus. And thanks to yellow and blue in the wrong proportion. Without you, we wouldn't have this ugly green blog to learn from.
Seriously though, thanks for taking time to make this an edutaining site to visit.
Congrats to Sean and for the recommendation to follow Rich on Twitter. I'm not exactly an expert, more like a interested customer of virtualization. Follow me on Twitter @gocyclones
Sweet! Thanks for sounding off, Matt. One new documented follower of VM/Etc!! Only 1 or 2 more to go to help pay off this t-shirt.
Rich, great idea. And great implementation. Yet another reason to come and participate on this ugly green Web site! Keep up the great work, we'll keep commenting, and please, above all else, stay ugly green…
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