| title: Eric Helgeson Named 2017 Grails® Rock Star | |
| date: November 30, 2017 | |
| description: The Grails® Rock Star Award recognizes a member of the Grails Community for his or her outstanding contributions to the success of the Framework. | |
| author: Sergio Del Amo Caballero | |
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| The Grails<sup>®</sup> Rock Star Award recognizes a member of the Grails Community for his or her outstanding contributions to the success of the Framework. | |
| Yesterday at G3 Summit 2017, Eric Helgeson was awarded the Grails Rock Star Award. Eric is the author of the book [Practical Grails 3](https://www.grails3book.com/), and he is often seen in the [Grails Slack Community](https://grails.slack.com/) answering and helping other users. Moreover, Eric contributes to the Grails Community with code, plugin development, issues reporting, etc. | |
| Also, Graeme Rocher and Jeff Scott Brown, Grails framework co-founders, were awarded Grails lifetime contributor awards for their contributions in the past decade to the framework success. | |
| **Congratulations to Eric, Graeme, and Jeff for these well deserved awards.** | |
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