The January 2009 election is closed. Fabrizio Giudici and Tom Wheeler are the community appointed members of the current NetBeans Governance Board. The next election will take place in September 2009.
Toni Epple
I'm a Consultant & Trainer living in Munich, Germany. I've been
working with NetBeans for many years and my favorite part is the Rich
Client Platform. I blog and write articles, and I have also authored a book to be publishd in mid-2009.
I give talks and organize meetings in the virtual and real world to
help spread the word about NetBeans. One of my favorite activities
since last year has been my involvement in the NetBeans Platform Certified Training Course, visiting several universities to give free trainings to students. I
would be honoured to serve as a part of the NetBeans Governance Board!
Ryan de Laplante
Ryan is a Java Developer working for IJW
Software Corporation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada since 1998. He has
been using NetBeans for serious work since version 5.5 and has been an
active community member from the beginning. Ryan participates on the
nbusers mailing list, maintains a blog, and contributes to IssueZilla. Although Ryan has never
officially been a NetCAT team member, he has reported 156 issues so far
and worked directly with Sun staff to help diagnose bugs and
performance issues. Ryan was elected to the NetBeans Dream Team in
2008, and is involved in other Sun communities including GlassFish and
OpenSolaris.
Fabrizio Giudici
Fabrizio Giudici is a Senior Java Architect with a lengthy J2EE experience
and in recent years he has expanded his interests to include Jini and NetBeans.
Fabrizio has been running Tidalwave.it, his own consultancy company,
since 2001 and has been a technical speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis,
Jazoon, Jini Community Meetings and at Italian Java conferences. He
started working with Java since 1.0 and after 1.3 he has
been committed to demonstrating that Java performance is not an issue
(really). After bringing Java to the world of Formula One telemetry, he
believes he is on the right path. Fabrizio is a member of the JUG
Milano and the NetBeans Dream Team; he is the author of a number of open source
software, including blueMarine, a digital asset management software based on the
NetBeans Platform.
Tonny Kohar
I have been in software
programming for over 8 years. I have been using NetBeans IDE since the
beginning (when it was called Forte) and love it. It was one of the
Java IDEs that was written in Java itself. I am also a heavy user of
the NetBeans Platform RCP framework. In recent years, for my company I have built applications that run on top of the NetBeans Platform.
Currently, my NetBeans community involvement includes: Blogging; Working with the community on the mailing list; Becoming a member of the NetBeans Dream Team; Filing RFEs and bugs through NetBeans IssueZilla; and Performing NetBeans Platform compability tests for NetBeans 6.1 and NetBeans 6.5. I have also given interviews (here and here) about my work using the NetBeans Platform.
Kristian Rink
I spend my days working as CTO
and software architect / developer for planConnect GmbH, located in
Dresden, Germany. I have been into professional software development
for 10+ years, using Perl, early PHP and Unix shell scripts and JavaEE
web tier technologies. I am also responsible for my firm's
technological infrastructure which involves dealing with various pieces
of hardware and software, ranging from workstation systems to Unix
server systems running both Solaris and several Linux variants.
As far as time and family allow, I enjoy wasting hours dealing with
"new things": talking about technology (libraries, frameworks,
features, etc.) and theoretical aspects (development methods,
architectural concepts, patterns, and so on). With regard to NetBeans,
I work on the NetBeans Community Docs project
as the Community Docs Evangelist for German speaking countries, and I
hope to increase my activities in this area in the near future. I have also been a member of the NetBeans Dream Team since late 2008. Lastly,
I maintain a blog in which I write about NetBeans related things as well.
Much like the experience of migrating to Java for most of my
development work, using NetBeans has drastically increased my
productivity and eased my everyday work, and I am more than happy to
share this kind of experience with others.
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.
Tom 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.
