About 10 Australians and New Zealanders made the trek to Seattle for the MVP Summit. Before the official start to the Summit, some of the ANZ-ers caught up at Rock Bottom, a bar not far from our hotels.
Jessica Garcia, from Microsoft in Sydney, is the Australian MVP Lead.
John Green, Excel MVP, is also from Sydney.
John McGhie, an MVP from Sydney. No-one is ever quite sure whether he's a Word MVP or a Macintosh MVP. He tries to be both.
Rod Gill, Microsoft Project MVP from Auckland, New Zealand.
Robert Chandler, MVP for HTML Help, from Melbourne.
Robert maintains the page that lists all the Australian and NZ MVPs, complete with pictures, specialities and links to their web pages.
Bill McCarthy, VB MVP from Victoria.
Bear in mind that in these parts, VB stands for Victoria Bitter, as well as Visual Basic.
Doug Robbins, Word MVP from Brisbane, with Suzanne Barnhill of Alabama, USA, at the Microsoft Officer dinner.
Sandi Hardmeier, MVP for Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, from Perth, with Jessica Garcia.