--- title: "June 2016 Axelerant Insider" url: https://www.axelerant.com/blog/june-2016-axelerant-insider published: 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z author: "Nitika Nehra, Axelerant Alumni" source: Axelerant Thinking --- # June 2016 Axelerant Insider > The Axelerant Insider June 2016 The Geek Voice - Ep 2 - Poster - Piyuesh # The Axelerant Insider # June 2016 ![The Geek Voice - Ep 2 - Poster - Piyuesh](https://557351.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/557351/Imported_Blog_Media/Podcast-Ep02-01-640x480-1.jpg) The Geek Voice - Ep 2 - Poster - Piyuesh [The Geek Voice](https://soundcloud.com/axelerant) from Axelerant brings you all the geeky and open source stuff from around the world on a monthly basis. [In Ep. 2 we talk to Piyuesh Kumar from QED42](https://soundcloud.com/axelerant) about his crowdfunding campaign, mentorship in India, and more. We also discuss DrupalCon NOLA, Acquia's Bolt (now BLT), and DrupalCon Dublin. ## Axelerant Achievements ![](https://557351.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/557351/Imported_Blog_Media/Achievement-Graphic-Template-02-01-640x344-1.jpg) - Axelerant turned four on June 1, 2016! - We continue to be number one in Drupal 8 contributions in India. ### Some New Team Member Achievements - [Lakshmi Narasimhan](https://axelerant.com/about) presented a session in [PgCon](https://www.pgcon.org/2016/). - [Swaroop Kundeti](https://axelerant.com/about) is presenting in NYC Camp. - [Michael Cannon](https://axelerant.com/about) is leading photographers at [OpenCamp](http://opencamps.org/). [Join them](https://www.axelerant.com/resources/articles/join-open-camps-photography-team-2016). - [Mridula Harshwardhan](https://axelerant.com/about) became NLP Practitioner. - [Prabhat Sinha](https://axelerant.com/about) became Scrum Master. - [Rajiv Singh](https://axelerant.com/about) cleared Acquia certification. **Great job, team!** ## Contributions - ***303 ****Drupal 8 commits by Axelerant* [hussainweb](https://www.drupal.org/u/hussainweb) : 218 [rudraram](http://drupal.org/u/rudraram) : 12 [alansaviolobo](http://drupal.org/u/alansaviolobo) : 8 [mohit_aghera](http://drupal.org/u/mohit_aghera) : 8 [tkuldeep17](http://drupal.org/u/tkuldeep17) : 8 [aliyakhan](http://drupal.org/u/aliyakhan) : 7 [miteshmap](http://drupal.org/u/miteshmap) : 6 [truptti](http://drupal.org/u/truptti) : 5 ankit agrawal : 4 [sushyl](http://drupal.org/u/sushyl) : 4 [alvimurtaza](http://drupal.org/u/alvimurtaza) : 3 [subharanjan](http://drupal.org/u/subharanjan) : 3 [swati_qa](http://drupal.org/u/swati_qa) : 2 [lakshminp](http://drupal.org/u/lakshminp) : 2 [phantomvish](http://drupal.org/u/phantomvish) : 2 [rajeevk](http://drupal.org/u/rajeevk) : 2 [shwetaneelsharma](http://drupal.org/u/shwetaneelsharma) : 2 [sabreena](http://drupal.org/u/sabreena) : 1 [am_sreenivasan](http://drupal.org/u/am_sreenivasan) : 1 [nikitajain](http://drupal.org/u/nikitajain) : 1 karthik kumar bodu : 1 [nikunjkotecha](http://drupal.org/u/nikunjkotecha) : 1 [pradeep22saini](http://drupal.org/u/pradeep22saini) : 1 [saurabhsirdixit](http://drupal.org/u/saurabhsirdixit) : 1 - [Saurabh](https://axelerant.com/about) and [Subharanjan](https://axelerant.com/about) supported several [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-bulkquick-edit) [plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/testimonials-widget), responding to over 20 [forum questions](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-contributor/comprock). 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Reference: [Inside Axelerant](https://www.axelerant.com/resources/articles/december-2015-axelerant-insider) --- Read on the web: https://www.axelerant.com/blog/june-2016-axelerant-insider