Lukas Kahwe Smith

We proudly congratulate Liiper Lukas Kahwe Smith on being named "Best Evangelist" at the first "Symfony Community Awards 2011".

The Symfony2 community honored extraordinary commitment with awards in seven categories. The "Best Evangelist" title recognizes Lukas' contribution as a conference speaker and facilitator between development communities.

Lukas is a talented presenter and a passionate networker bringing people together from many communities including the Symfony2, Drupal, PHP, Doctrine communities. The Midgard CMS community decided to migrate to Symfony2 after working together with Lukas on PHPCR. Lukas was also a valuable contact for the Drupal community when they were evaluating frameworks to take Drupal 8 in a new direction. He answered many questions, smoothing the way for a closer partnership between the Drupal and Symfony communities that will benefit both Drupal and Symfony.

Liip pushes the Content Management Framwork (CMF) based on Symfony2 ā€“ originally one of Lukas' initiatives in 2010 ā€“ forward with many primary contributions. The CMF already forms the basis for Liip when implementing complex, customer specific CMS-functionality which is found in most Liip customer projects.