Mulesoft Champions Program Review

Mulesoft Champions Program Review

What is the Mulesoft Champions program?

Mulesoft defines the program as:

The Champions Program is all about you. Grow your skills, get recognized, get rewarded, and network with the top MuleSoft developers and advocates around the world. - https://developer.mulesoft.com/champions 

The program allows you to create an account and participate discussions and challenges.  The challenges range from validating that you read an article/watched a video, participating in a Linkedin/Facebook/Forum discussion or submitting code for challenges.

How well does the Champions Program meet its stated goals?

Grow your skills

The coding challenges provide some basic uses cases that are good when you are starting out, however when you working on specific use cases they may not help with your skill development.

The weekly articles validations are where some of the real gems are which are blogs or articles written by real MuleSoft practitioners and will gain new insights

Recognition

I submitted a blog post which was tweeted, but they are not leveraging the Linkedin MuleSoft group which would provide better exposure to the community

Rewards

There is a wide range of awards and I think most people will find something they like.  The points required doesn't seem out of line for the rewards either.

Networking

The program has had little impact on my networking

Summary  

I think the program is an interesting way to get a community to work more closely together and I think they are only scratching the surface of how it can be used to really improve the MuleSoft and adaption