{"id":15088,"date":"2025-03-03T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=15088"},"modified":"2025-03-03T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:12:53","slug":"vmware-vexpert-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/vmware-vexpert-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware \u2013 vExpert 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/vexpert-badge-year.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15089 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/vexpert-badge-year-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m very happy to have been accepted into the vExpert program for 2025. This is the thirteenth time that they\u2019ve forgotten to remove my name from the list (even I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d keep doing that &#8220;joke&#8221;). You can read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/vexpert\/2025\/02\/26\/the-vexpert-2025-awards\/\">here<\/a>. Thanks again to Corey Romero, the vExpert PROs, and the VMware by Broadcom Community and Advocacy Team for making this kind of thing happen. And thanks also to the vExpert community for being such a great community to be part of. This year there are 1212 vExperts from <a href=\"https:\/\/vexpert.vmware.com\/directory\">75 Countries<\/a>. Congratulations to you (whether this is your first or thirteenth time). There&#8217;s been a lot happening in and around VMware recently, and I&#8217;m happy that programs like this can continue to exist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/vexpert-badge-stars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15090 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/vexpert-badge-stars-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m very happy to have been accepted into the vExpert program for 2025. This is the thirteenth time that they\u2019ve forgotten to remove my name from the list (even I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d keep doing that &#8220;joke&#8221;). You can read more about it here. Thanks again to Corey Romero, the vExpert PROs, and the VMware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[528,786],"class_list":["post-15088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","tag-vexpert","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15091,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions\/15091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}