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Jan 6, 2021

Happy New Year, Atlassian Community!

In 2020 we all had to learn how to connect, share, and learn in an entirely different way.

After a year of so much bad, we deserve to celebrate some good! These awards are meant to highlight just a few of the members who went above and beyond this year despite the tribulations they surely faced. For those not mentioned in this post - we are grateful for you and look forward to recognizing you sometime soon.

Before we dive into the individual award categories for 2020, I want to congratulate our overall top contributors. We notice and appreciate the time and care you put into helping fellow community members and are astounded and humbled by your dedication:

Top 10 overall (Based on avg daily posts)

@Nic Brough _Adaptavist_ 20.28 daily posts
@Daniel Ebers 13.68 daily posts
@Jack Brickey 11.53 daily posts
@John Funk 8.78 daily posts
@Walter Buggenhout _ACA IT_ 8.18 daily posts
@Bill Sheboy 8.08 daily posts
@Brant Schroeder 7.77 daily posts
@Liam Green 5.98 daily posts
@Hana Kučerová 4.73 daily posts
@Thomas Schlegel 4.62 daily posts

Thumbs up (Most kudos given)

@Jimmy Seddon (Leader) - 518 kudos given
@Calogero Kalos Bonasia (Member) - 228 kudos given
@Tim Keyes (Atlassian) - 316 kudos given

Reading rainbow (Most page views on articles)

@Thomas Schlegel (Leader) 2,035 page views
@Zoryana Bohutska _SaaSJet_ (Member) 580 page views
@Josh Frank (Atlassian) 1,103 page views

“Let me grab my glasses” (Most page views on Q+A posts)

@Nic Brough _Adaptavist_ (Leader) 30,164 page views
@Sachin (Member) 6,762
@Minh Tran (Atlassian)

Gold standard (Most kudos received)

@Andy B - PTC + @Teodora V (Leaders) A tie at 459 kudos received
@Katerina Kovriga _Stiltsoft_ (Member) 388 kudos received
@Brittany Sudlow (Atlassian) 646 kudos received

Awesome Authors (Most engaging articles)

@Kat (Leader) 128 comments received
@Poorvi Jhawar (Member) 43 comments received
@Ben Thoma (Atlassian) 254 comments received

Positively prolific (Most published articles)

@Alexey Matveev _Appfire_ (Leader) 61 articles published
@Andrei Pisklenov _Actonic_ (Member) 19 articles published
@Jessica Taylor (Atlassian) 28 articles published

Helping hand (High-quality solutions)

@Nic Brough _Adaptavist_(Leader) 1,230 solutions authored
@Bill Sheboy (Member) 268 solutions authored
@Michael Pryor (Atlassian) 184 solutions authored

Beacon (Most successful Group leaders)

@Joerg Mueller-Kindt (Leader) Berlin/Hamburg
@Alexander Pappert (Member) Kudos program
@Stephanie Zhang and @Wei Heng (Atlassians) Confluence mobile feedback group

Groupopular (Most kudos received on group posts)

@Jodi LeBlanc (Leader) 201 kudos received
@Fabio Genovese (Member) 22 kudos received
@Griffin Jones (Atlassian) 50 kudos received

Super Grouper (Most group posts initiated)

@Fadoua (Leader) 27 conversations initiated
@Monika Rani (Member) 18 conversations initiated
@Griffin Jones (Atlassian) 21 conversation initiated

ACE-llent (ACE leader crushing the online content game)

@_Fabian A. Lopez "Manages several online groups with the same passion and enthusiasm he puts into his ACE responsibilities!"

Special mention to @Deepanshu Natani for bringing together ACE cities and co-hosting events with them and also sharing great write-ups online. @Ollie Guan has been consistently crushing it online as well as supporting with Shanghai events.

A couple fun quotes about some Community superstars from Atlassian team members:

@Andy B - PTC “A beacon of silliness and helpfulness. FMA makes Community fun while genuinely adding value for his fellow members.”

@Matt Doar__ LinkedIn “Leads by example and keeps a positive attitude - consistently engages and helps fellow Community members. All around role model.”

@Alex Janes “Truly a saint. Works hard to help peers and gracefully de-escalates conflict.”

@Bill Sheboy “Bill has really stepped up in a big way as of late. He has great input and follows up consistently. For example, check out this thread.”

@Joerg Mueller-Kindt and @Hubert Kut “Not only these Berlin ACE Leaders did they host 55 events last year, but they also tried out several different event formats and virtual platforms (for example wonder.me, hopin.to) to help engage their members in new, fun ways."

Thank you to Community members on and off this list! We appreciate you all very much. Please join me in this content celebration by adding your favorite happy gif in the comments below.