Shaun Walker the creator of DotNetNuke

Thank you for maximizing the coupling of every component of this system.

Shaun - on DNN platform 15 years now. Thanks!

Hi Shaun, DNN, popularly called DotNetNuke, is a great software, intelligently designed. I cannot imagine mental hours, coding time, material commitment & personal sacrifice you put into the project. I cannot thank you enough for this masterpiece software. Thank you Shaun Walker. May God bless you and family super abundantly. I love you. Felix ADEJIMI

Shaun, I'm so sorry I was so late to realize (@nvrCanRetire). We are running 10k plus portals with millions of pages total serving 501c3 non=profits since (5k portals last you and Joe and I met .. I was the guy that drank all the micro brews and was try'n to explain how we were supporting at the time 5k portals....). I wrote a cache provider on your infrastructure that made it possible. I finally realized just today they pushed you out... You did a wonderful service to the portal community putting your infrastructure together. It saddens me to see that dnn corp is try'n to reduce it to a one site commodity. take care. Scott (they guy that should have presented, how we scaled dnn, at every conference since 2005..)

Hey Shaun! Thank you from Denver Colorado - We love DNN! We have been using it for a bunch of years now ... over 8 years I think. Through the powers of DNN we've sold beer kits, and lots of author's books, we've blogged on building homes, and consulted on nuclear energy, we've tried to educate on mental health issues and sold folks on the use of cloud computing, we've engineered haz waste solutions, medically pioneered office buildings, and sold commercial doors. Why we have even described the pedigrees of dogs and placed their litters into wonderful homes. While many of our customers are small to mid-sized companies, DNN has made this all very easy for them to maintain their own content once we got them all up and running. So, thank you Shawn! Your absolute hard work, commitment and willingness to share solutions made this all possible! Sincerely, Jenny J.

Shaun, I joined the DNN flight in 2004 and I have ever since remained on board. Thanks to him and to everyone that supported in one way or the other in creating DNN. It has become a way of life to me as there is no day I don't mention the word "DNN" or "DotNetNuke"

Shaun, thank you for planting a seed that has grown to become a big tree for the birds - myself inclusive - to feed on. Great thanks also to others who helped in the process.

Dear Shaun, I started Web Development last year, and until now I couldn't find a good cms that not only works with .Net, but is also free to use. Thank you so much for DNN, it is a really great piece of software that is brilliantly written and awesome due to it being free-source and compatible with the .Net languages. I have only started using it recently, but it makes web development SO much easier. I don't know if you will read this, but if you do I hope you know how much I appreciate your effort. Cameron

Today I am a full-time DotNetNuke developer and have done about 400 DotNetNuke projects. I became to this status because of this great DNN framework. Shoun. You are the great man and you are the founder of this excellent framework. You have done much much work for me and my family. You can be happy since you have saved a lot of lives and families. You have given so many things to the community. We are having a great life because of you. The great gentleman. I am wishing you a great future. Thank you very very much for everything that you have given us so far.

Hey Shaun ! Yes, thank you, definitly !!! Because thanks to what you created I managed to convince my husband to come and live back in France with me : he took is "recently discovered" DotNetNuke with him and off we were, creating our company in Millau, around it ! So yes, I can say that you have made this possible to us, and that today, as we have done for the last 10 years nearly, we make a living out of DNN ! Wishing you all the best now and in the future, you deserve it !

Thank you Shaun. We enjoy working with DNN each and every day. It was nice joining you for the last breakfast at DNN CONNECT 2015. Although you didn't know me you reached out your hand and wished me a good trip home. So I am reaching back to you here, because sadly I didn't get to sign the shirt. It is great to still have you in community. I personally wish you all the best and hope to see you back next year. Thanks for making DNN such a big part of our lives and giving us the chance to build our income and our families on this awesome platform!

YOU, are the REAL MVP!

Thanks so much for your work! I have worked with DNN since 2006 and still love it

Many, many Thanks!

I have just found about this site. I feel honored to be able to give a public thank you message to Shaun Walker. From me (and on behalf of the DNN community to the extent I may be allowed to) I have found later than sooner -and I am sorry for that- the kind of man Shaun Walker is. It seems to me that by the time I got into the DNN world (2007/2008) he was kind of caught inside a sort of fast train and he was not able to even look through the windows. You get to know a person by the kind of people that gets together around him and by the result of his work, creativity and generosity. Keep up the good work, Shaun :)

Dear Shaun, DNN is a wonderful project!! I have been following since IBuySpy. creation of In those early years, DNN made us proudly say that even we dotnet guys have an opensource solutions!! :-) Thank you for your contribution! All the best! Anup

Shaun, I wish I could find just the right words to truly express my gratitude for all you have done. iBuySpy Workshop/DotNetNuke/DNN have been the technical centerpiece for several of my businesses. Without your vision and leadership, this strong community and ecosystem just simply wouldn't exist. I would not be where I am today and my businesses would not be where they are today. It seems a "thank you" is just not enough, but nonetheless I offer that to you. You have been kind, decisive and inspiring through the years and I am sure that will continue through to any new ventures. Keep in touch!

I've been using DNN for almost ten years now and I hope to use it for the next ten, or even ten more. What a great tool, thanks to its solid foundation and the extraordinaru evolution I've been lucky to share. DNN is already a positive piece in the history of internet. Best regards, and all the best for you, Francisco

Terabyte Thanks Shaun Walker. Thanks is little beside your great job. CMS with DNNreally easy and DNN is over competency. I hope you more peaks. keep working as recent steps.

Thank you Shaun for taking us up to speed with Microsoft technology. I wish somebody could write a robot here to fill in as many "Thanks" as Gifford think is required :) This is just another stupid joke of mine....

Shaun, It's been an amazing journey. Thank you for all of your contributions to the DNN platform and community. Open sourcing the product so early on was a pivotal decision that improved many people's lives. Your generosity, vision, perseverance and passion are legendary.

Thanks!

Shaun, Thanks a lot for your initiative and hard work on DNN. It's been a pleasure getting to know you on several occasions in The Netherlands over the years. Wish you all the best for the future. Greetz, Stefan Kamphuis

Shaun it was a pleasure to meet you (2013), I appreciate the invite to the DNN HQ and the hotel. I still remember how my wife was saying how young you look, ha! Good job on that, you have touched many lives and created a system where we too can make a living from it. I have learned allot from you and the DNN community. Much appreciated. -Duane Wilson

Shawn, outstanding work and great leadership! You started something that has helped a lot of people, including myself, my company and many of my clients. Thank you.

As a business analyst I encountered the iBuySpy workshop via the asp forums, as I reviewed iBuySpy it migrated to become .netnuke. At this time I introduced it to two website developers friends of mine. Once they had reviewed the framework and once ver 2 of Dotnetnuke became available, we created a hosting division based purely on the Dotnetnuke platform. Our company grew quite fast and we eventually sold the company when we were made an offer we could not refuse. Currently Cyber Factory specialize in hosting DNN. So it is thanks to Shaun that we have been very successful in providing hosting services and solutions in South Africa All the very best for your future endeavors Robin

thanks so much for cool job.

Shaun, Thanks for all you have done with the DNN framework. I have been with it since the IBuySpy days. Best Wishes and hopefully I will be able to be a part of your next big vision. Tom Harris 9d Interactive

You saved our bacon back in 2005 and helped make our dream a reality. May our paths cross again someday. Thank you, Shaun. Carol and Lynda

I started with DNN in 2005 as a hobby. What I know about web development I know because of DNN. During my time in the DNN community I met numerous people I now call friends. Being a part of the DNN community has been rewarding and enjoyable on several different levels. For that, Shaun, I thank you!

Thank you very much for all you work Shaun Walker. Thanks IBuySpy Workshop sample I learned my C #. And Best wishes for 2015.

Thank you Shaun!! I've built our company and my livelihood around the project you started, so in a way your efforts have been life changing for me, and I'm sure also for many others. Thanks Again!

Without DNN I am not sure our company would exist. I wish you and you family all the best... To your success, Brad

Hey Shaun, Thanks very much for all you did to get DNN to the stage it is now. I am a pastor at a VERY small church in British Columbia that simply cannot pay me enough to live on. On top of that, two years ago I was diagnosed with Cancer. The DNN Community platform has provided the opportunity I needed to start my own web development company and work from home. I am happy to report that cancer is losing its battle with me and I am thrilled to be afforded an opportunity to work at something I love to do. DNN has literally been a "God Send"! Best to you in your new endeavors. Hutch

Thank you Shaun! I have build the most of my sites with DNN and will further do so :) And thanks Timo for this great idea Richard

Thank you Shaun for your vision and for your hard work in creating this awesome community. I will always remember being at one of the Las Vegas conventions and giving you a hard line of questioning about User Interface. You were gracious and you took everything I said in consideration. :) I wish you continued success in your future endeavors.

Thanks Shaun! DNN has come a long way and is the CMS of choice for the bowling industry. I host hundreds of installations of DNN Community Edition for bowling centers nation wide and have been pleased at the progress over the years. I'm a .NET lifer as a developer and for my customer base DNN is the easiest, most cost effective solution available in the .NET framework..I appreciate the continued efforts and progress of this web application. ~ Heath

Shaun: Hey, thanks a lot for your passion, time, and effort on DNN. I've been jazzed about the platform since Stan helped me get going in 2005. Since then, I've shifted my career from performing general IT support to working exclusively on DNN projects. You've have a huge impact on my life whether you know it or not! I suspect that there's a lot of other similar stories out there. You rock! See Ya! Van

been using DNN since version 1 many thanks for a wonderful project !

Working with DNN for 6 years now, I have grown a great deal of respect and appreciation for your amazing work. You can look back to an epic journey that has had (and will have) a massive impact on many, many lives. I wish you the best in your future endeavours. Hopefully, you'll be able to join the community in France in a couple of months and be stunned about the progress DNN has made. Kind regards from The Netherlands, Tycho de Waard (ICATT interactive media)

Thank you Shaun With the DNN as base framework we successfully created several solutions. Best Regards.

Dear Shaun, First thanks for your efforts on DotNetNuke. My first day of job in my life started on DNN only. It was DNN3.0 at that time. Thanks a lot for this Framework. Thank you is a very small work to express about you and your efforts

Shaun, I personally didn't meet you until just recently but I have followed your DNN journey since the beginning, and have gained a great deal of respect for you technical and entrepreneurial success! I'll say it again, a lot of us wouldn't be here if it weren't for your vision! Thanks!

Shaun - thanks for 1.) creating something that has benefitted so many; 2.) being a great community voice and leader; 3.) providing a venue that allowed me to express part of who I am, have fun and grow a business around it. I'm still not sure what I want to be when I grow up. But your contribution has given me the ability to keep playing in the sandbox until I figure it out. If there is anything I can ever do for you, just let me know. :-)

Thanks! Good job!!

Shaun, I have been using DNN since inception. In fact, even before that when IBuySpy was first introduced to show a use case scenario for ASP.Net. A simple thank you cannot express the impact you have made to so many. None-the-less - Thank you!

Thanks Shaun! Your passion is the foundation of my company. Without your vision, dedication and commitment, I would not have the company I have today. I value our community immensely and thank you for giving us the opportunity to have so many friends around the globe.

Thanks for creating so amazing platform, I've been around some years and haven't found any that can replace it!!! Long live to DNN!!

tnx for your perfect job

thanks for all your inspiration you gave us your everything and never asked anything thanks #Shaun for your creativity and passion bond for web solutions | Rotterdam - The Netherlands

Thanks for DotNetNuke - but also for paving the way for OpenSource development on Windows and for .net-CMSs in general. I believe that most .net CMS today wouldn't exist if it had not been for your work and passion the first years. You have in many ways influenced most of my business-life in awesome ways - thank you forever! Love from Switzerland, Daniel + the sxc 2sic team

Shaun, Thanks for all of your contributions in and outside of the code to the DNN Project, Community, & Ecosystem. Your decision to open source has made a lot of people's lives better including mine. DNN is a great solution with a great community which is all a result of your generosity & vision. Thanks again...

Shaun, Thanks for this wonderful cms/framework and community you have created! Without it allot of people including myself would not have been able to start and run our businesses the way they are today. No matter what sort of knowledge a community member has you are always there to help and just keep giving. An example to us all. We are all owe you!

Dear Shaun, A 1000 character message can hardly do justice to the profound influence DNN has had on me and my family's life. My only regret is that I wasn't there a year earlier to join you right from the start. We met in 2005 in Holland for the first time and ever since I've had the utmost respect for how you handled our sometimes tumultuous community: with eloquence and restraint. I realise that this baby of yours has now passed on to other hands and that this undoubtedly leads to some anxiety. And given the role I've been granted I can assure you the first thing I ask myself at every turn is "what would Shaun have done?". I hope our relationship will continue as strong as it has been and that we'll have plenty of opportunities to meet again in person. All the best to you and your family, Peter

Hello Shaun, Thank you for what you started, thank you for giving simple people like me power to deliver what my customers need. Thank you for the motorcycles, I have a "Reserved for Shaun Walker" on one bike in my garage for when you visit Ireland. Just give me 48 hours notice and I will have the bike, helmet and jacket ready to go. I hope you are enjoying this new phase of your life.

Thank you very much for this great work, Shaun! The .Net world would be poor without the fantastic DNN. DNN enriches the internet. The many installations, the large community of users and the incredible number of modules show that your step was an important and positive step for the future. I wish you all the best for your future! Take care. Best Regards Henner

Shaun, You changed the direction many of us were heading in and built an amazing community. I now have so many friends across Europe and the US I would never have met if it were not for you. I have no doubt that whatever you put your hand to in the future will be successful. Thank you Shaun. Best wishes, Declan Ward

Shaun, thanks for the great start. Thanks to that i enjoy every day the possibilities of a stable and flexible platform. There has no question i didn't answer with DNN. I've seen a lot of people contributing to the community, a result of your start. Thanks also to the community to pickup this great platform and build forward on it!

Shaun, thank you for the tears, the sweat and (almost) blood it (sometimes) took to keep this project afloat all these years. It shaped the life of many people, grateful people.

Thanks for the wonderful gift you gave the world!

Thank you Shaun for not only giving us DotNetNuke but for brining the ASP.NET community into the Open Source spirit. You are the person who showed me that it is ok to give code away and help others. I'm still doing it to this day!

There is so much I could say here. But I'll keep it short. Thank you so very much for your efforts, along with all of the others, to start a platform that has become something great that has allowed so many to build businesses around the platform.

Shaun, I've been making a living with DNN for 8 years. I really appreciate your gift to all of us, as well as the contributions of a host of others. Happy Holiday, Merry Christmas, a wonderful New Year to you all! joe

Shaun, thanks for all this nice cars.

Thanks! Thanks for firing up the .NET Nuke passion in me, thanks for laying the foundation of my professional life, thanks for making every working day a day I can practice my hobby. You will never be forgotten!

My thanks to Shaun, too. He done so much for DNN and the community, We all will missing him!

Thank you for DotNetNuke and the community. You have brought a lot of friends in my life.

Thank you so much, Shaun... None of us would be where we are right now if it weren't for you!

I have no idea what my life would be like without what you've released to the public back in 2002. DNN was my personal initiator for delving into web development and it is the backbone of my business ever since. Thank you so much.

The life I now live, I live thanks to Shaun's Christmas gift in 2002. I spent a great deal of time during my twenties looking for the right business opportunity... something that would allow me to be an entrepreneur, a founder and a CEO. When I started Atlantic Web Fitters I had created my own CMS... but when I adopted DotNetNuke in 2005, I found a warm and welcoming community that adopted me! Shaun is not only the father of a great open source project, he's also directly responsible for improving my quality of life, as well as allowing me the opportunity to offer a better way of life to thousands of people who are responsible for keeping up their own websites. I love that Shaun is Canadian, and it makes me very proud to know that so many people around the world have benefited from someone who was generous enough to gift the world and bring attention to Canada. Thank you Shaun... as a DotNetNuke MVP, I've always been proud to share the DNN story, a Canadian story with many gathered a

Thank you Shaun for creating a project that would change so many lives. I wouldn't be where I am today if you hadn't released IBSW back in 2002, and my family wouldn't be what it is either. Best wishes to you for 2015.