NetBeans Governance Board - Candidate Profiles

Aristides Villarreal

Java Developer, Teacher, PanamaJUG President and Speaker on Java and NetBeans in Panama

When asked why he would like to be elected to the NetBeans Governance Board Aristides state that he would like, "To help improve the IDE and community involvement, to attract developers to use the IDE and to promote the implementation of more documentation." As a a board member Aristides would like, "To increase the participation of the community and promote new characteristics for the IDE."

For more information about Aristides and his work visit http://avbravo.blogspot.com and http://panamajug.blogspot.com.

Glenn Holmer

Glenn is web team leader at Weyco Group, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, where the company has been using NetBeans since 2001. He is active on the mailing lists and has been a member of the NetCAT teams for the 3.6, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, and 6.0 releases. He also a member of the NetBeans Dream Team and a verifier for the Plugin Portal.

Glenn writes, "I have experience interacting with the developers and believe that I could help act as a mediator in the unlikely event that a dispute needed the Board's attention."

Lim Chooi Hoe

Lecturer at the School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore.

Masoud Kalali

It is about 9 years that I am involved with software development and almost 7 years that I do Java development. I started using NetBeans from its version 3.x to develop J2EE applications and from that time I am a happy NetBeans user and contributer. Nowadays I work for a big consulting firm and I am also I am Architects zone leader in Dzone. (http://Architects.dzone.com)

It is my first time which I am looking to working with the NetBeans community from the governance board channel and what I would look to do is hearing more from NetBeans users and incorporate what users need in the NetBeans development time line.

In term of being involved with NetBeans, I blog about NetBeans and I try to help the engineering team with RFE and filing bug, however I am a Dream team member and I work with the entire Dream Team on some Community related issues. I am also a contributer of GlassFish project in term of testing, writing articles and blogging.

Paul Clevett

I am a Senior Developer @ PHJ Solutions Ltd working on NetBeans, and I am also getting involved with the Local University who are using NB. I want to give more back to the community. I'd like to provide more of a commercial view on things from the perspective of the developer using NetBeans on a daily basis. I work on it 5 days a week! (and fiddle with it the rest of the time), I'm looking into bringing a couple of other languages into NetBeans at present.

For more information you can visit Pauls' Blog at http://www.netbeansboy.com.

Tom Wheeler

Tom Wheeler is a Principal Software Engineer, instructor and course developer for Object Computing Inc., which is based near St. Louis, Missouri in the midwestern United States. He has more than ten years of professional software development experience, including work in the educational, financial, healthcare and aerospace industries. His areas of expertise include Java desktop application development, Web services, computer security and UNIX systems administration. Tom has been a fan of open source software since running Linux for the first time in 1995 and became active in the NetBeans community after first developing NetBeans Platform applications in 2005. Since then he's written articles, developed examples, answered questions and given many presentations to make it easier for others to learn about the NetBeans platform.

Mr. Wheeler won the NetBeans community award in 2006 and was elected to the NetBeans Dream Team in 2007. He currently serves on the NetBeans governance board and would to be re-elected to help ensure continued growth and success of the NetBeans projects.

You can learn more about Tom and his work in two articles on NetBeans.org: Interview with Tom Wheeler and Welcome on Board NetBeans Air.

Wade Chandler

I have been a software consultant for over 10 years. I have been involved with NetBeans in some form for more than five years; the exact year I'm unsure, but since Forte for Java was released. I love NetBeans, and I believe I can be fair to all for the sake of the community at large. I will continue to push for more community oriented initiatives in NetBeans, and from the standpoint of community issue resolution I will always try to be fair and make my opinion known when needed. As far as my NetBeans work goes, I will continue to try to work in areas which help the community at large.

This year I have had some priority shifts in my community work. I unsubscribed from and have been devoting any user support time to which is the RCP users list. I did this because I have become more involved in NetBeans module development.

I am trying to help out when I can with different modules such as form and db, but my main focus is a project I started along with Tom Wheeler, Fabrizio Giudici, and Tim Boudreau. PlatformX, as it is called, has a couple simple goals or mandates though achieving them is going to take a lot of work.

It is a project for housing modules which help Platform/RCP application developers, and is more focused on that aspect of NetBeans than the IDE except when necessary to support the modules features.

One such example I'm working on is called RootPaneTopComponent, and it brings to TopComponent what JFrame, JApplet, and some other classes have had, which is a RootPaneContainer. This allows a TopComponent to have its own menu bar, glass pane, and layered pane. It also has features which allow the developer to add a component to the north, south, east, or west of the component.

See a simple blog about it: http://wadechandler.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-says-rootpane-always-has-to-be-at.html.

*A TopComponent is what most visible components in the NetBeans IDE extend.