Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Thecommunities around Google products and services have been growing tremendously over the last couple of years. It is inspiring and motivating for us to see how many users like you contribute to Google Forums. For some time, we´ve been thinking of ways to thank ourTop Contributors —our most the passionate, helpful, friendly, and active users. These TCs have demonstrated incredible commitment to our communities and continue to share their profound knowledge by answering user questions within the forums.

We decided to give the online world a break for a moment and meet in real life to celebrate our past success and work on future endeavours. Google Forum Guides, Googlers that participate in the forums, and Top Contributors will convene for the firstglobal Top Contributor Summit on September 13th and 14th in Santa Clara and Mountain View, California. During the Google-organized two-day event, Top Contributors will meet guides, engineers and product managers in order to get to know each other, provide feedback and share new ideas. We'll be sharing some of the insights and takeaways after the event too, so stay tuned. And if you would like to follow the events online, look out for the#TCsummit tag on Twitter and our updates onGoogle+.

Posted byEsperanza Navas andKaspar Szymanski, Search Quality Team