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         <h1>NetBeans Community Honors Contributors</h1>

         <p>At this year's NetBeans Software Day, five members of the IDE's
         global development community were honored for their valuable
         contributions to the NetBeans platform. Each winner received a framed
         plaque (designed by James Gosling) and a new Sun "developer machine" -
         an Ultra 20 Opteron workstation that comes with the Java Desktop System
         and a suite of Java technology developer tools preinstalled.

         <p>Most of the winners have been involved with the NetBeans community
         for many years. Only one of five works for a company which creates
         software that interoperates with NetBeans. These individuals became
         involved with NetBeans because they support open source software
         development and wanted to make a difference.

         <center>
             <img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/crowdAtNetBeansSoftwareDay.jpg" width="600" height="400"
                  alt="A packed crowd at NetBeans Software Day (photo: J. Chalupa)"/>
             <br>
             <i>A packed crowd at NetBeans Day</i>
         </center>
         <p>

         <p>Unfortunately, not all of the winners could be at the event in
         person.  The NetBeans development community takes this opportunity to
         congratulate this year's winners and thank them for their continued
         support:

         <p>
         <center>
             <img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/richJamesAndTim.jpg" width="600" height="400"
                  alt="Rich Unger accepts his award
                       from James Gosling and Tim Cramer (photo: J. Chalupa)"/>
             <br>
             <i>Rich Unger accepts his award from James Gosling and Tim Cramer</i>
         </center>

         <p>
         <ul>
         <li><i><a href="http://today.java.net/pub/au/117">Vincent Brabant</a></i>
         - Vincent works for a telecom company in Brussels, Belgium. He first
         used NetBeans 3.0 when taking a Java technology course in 2002. Vincent
         launched the TranslatedFiles project as a community center for people
         doing translations of NetBeans and has localized the IDE, documentation
         and parts of NetBeans.org in French. He was a past member of the
         NetBeans governance board.

         <p><li>
         <i><a href="http://today.java.net/pub/au/116">Maxym Mykhalchuk</a></i>
          - Maxym lives in the Ukraine and is working on his Ph.D.
          involvingcomputer-assisted translation. In 2002, he started a project
          to localize NetBeans in Russian and currently manages the Russian-
          language mailing list. "...It's nice to know that there are people here
          on Earth you've never seen in person, but that you helped and they
          helped you..." says Maxym. He was also a past member of the NetBeans
          governance board.

         <p><li>
         <i><a href="http://www.manorrock.com/about.html">Manfred Riem</a></i>
         - Manfred is a long-time member of the NetBeans development community.
         He first started using NetBeans in 1999, when it was a commercial
         product yet to be acquired by Sun Microsystems. He has worked on the
         Dutch translation of the IDE and NetBeans.org content. "I didn't expect
         to win an award," says Manfred, "...being involved with NetBeans was and
         is for me something I like because it will benefit a lot of people."

         <p><li>
         <i><a href="http://today.java.net/pub/au/88">Bruno Souza</a></i>
         - Bruno can easily be recognized at the JavaOne developer conference as
         the guy wearing the Brazilian flag on his back. He has been tremendously
         active in popularizing NetBeans in his native Brazil, where he works as
         a consultant.

         <p><li>
         <i><a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/richunger/">Rich Unger</a></i>
         - Rich works for Nuance Communications as one of the lead developers of
         V-Builder, a development environment for Voice-XML (a tool for creating
         voice-based menus). V-Builder is built on the NetBeans platform and re-
         uses a number of plug-ins that can be found in the NetBeans IDE. "I like
         it when people write me or the list, saying they are using my code," he
         says. "I'll see email addresses from Turkey, China, or the JPL and think
         Cool! I suppose, in any vibrant open source community, that's how just
         about everything gets done." Rich has been involved in NetBeans for a
         number of years, and has made many code contributions including the
         "cluster harness", which made it much easier to build applications on
         the NetBeans platform, and also wrote an excellent tutorial to go with
         it. Rich is a current member of the NetBeans board.
         </ul>
         <p>

         <p>Tim Boudreau
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	<title>NetBeans Community Honors Contributors</title>
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	<h1>NetBeans Community Honors Contributors</h1>

	<p>At this year's NetBeans Software Day, five members of the IDE's
	global development community were honored for their valuable
	contributions to the NetBeans platform. Each winner received a framed
	plaque (designed by James Gosling) and a new Sun "developer machine" -
	an Ultra 20 Opteron workstation that comes with the Java Desktop System
	and a suite of Java technology developer tools preinstalled.

	<p>Most of the winners have been involved with the NetBeans community
	for many years. Only one of five works for a company which creates
	software that interoperates with NetBeans. These individuals became
	involved with NetBeans because they support open source software
	development and wanted to make a difference.

	<center>
	<img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/crowdAtNetBeansSoftwareDay.jpg" width="600" height="400"
	alt="A packed crowd at NetBeans Software Day (photo: J. Chalupa)"/>
	<br>
	<i>A packed crowd at NetBeans Day</i>
	</center>
	<p>

	<p>Unfortunately, not all of the winners could be at the event in
	person. The NetBeans development community takes this opportunity to
	congratulate this year's winners and thank them for their continued
	support:

	<p>
	<center>
	<img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/richJamesAndTim.jpg" width="600" height="400"
	alt="Rich Unger accepts his award
	from James Gosling and Tim Cramer (photo: J. Chalupa)"/>
	<br>
	<i>Rich Unger accepts his award from James Gosling and Tim Cramer</i>
	</center>

	<p>
	<ul>
	<li><i><a href="http://today.java.net/pub/au/117">Vincent Brabant</a></i>
	- Vincent works for a telecom company in Brussels, Belgium. He first
	used NetBeans 3.0 when taking a Java technology course in 2002. Vincent
	launched the TranslatedFiles project as a community center for people
	doing translations of NetBeans and has localized the IDE, documentation
	and parts of NetBeans.org in French. He was a past member of the
	NetBeans governance board.

	<p><li>
	<i><a href="http://today.java.net/pub/au/116">Maxym Mykhalchuk</a></i>
	- Maxym lives in the Ukraine and is working on his Ph.D.
	involvingcomputer-assisted translation. In 2002, he started a project
	to localize NetBeans in Russian and currently manages the Russian-
	language mailing list. "...It's nice to know that there are people here
	on Earth you've never seen in person, but that you helped and they
	helped you..." says Maxym. He was also a past member of the NetBeans
	governance board.

	<p><li>
	<i><a href="http://www.manorrock.com/about.html">Manfred Riem</a></i>
	- Manfred is a long-time member of the NetBeans development community.
	He first started using NetBeans in 1999, when it was a commercial
	product yet to be acquired by Sun Microsystems. He has worked on the
	Dutch translation of the IDE and NetBeans.org content. "I didn't expect
	to win an award," says Manfred, "...being involved with NetBeans was and
	is for me something I like because it will benefit a lot of people."

	<p><li>
	<i><a href="http://today.java.net/pub/au/88">Bruno Souza</a></i>
	- Bruno can easily be recognized at the JavaOne developer conference as
	the guy wearing the Brazilian flag on his back. He has been tremendously
	active in popularizing NetBeans in his native Brazil, where he works as
	a consultant.

	<p><li>
	<i><a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/richunger/">Rich Unger</a></i>
	- Rich works for Nuance Communications as one of the lead developers of
	V-Builder, a development environment for Voice-XML (a tool for creating
	voice-based menus). V-Builder is built on the NetBeans platform and re-
	uses a number of plug-ins that can be found in the NetBeans IDE. "I like
	it when people write me or the list, saying they are using my code," he
	says. "I'll see email addresses from Turkey, China, or the JPL and think
	Cool! I suppose, in any vibrant open source community, that's how just
	about everything gets done." Rich has been involved in NetBeans for a
	number of years, and has made many code contributions including the
	"cluster harness", which made it much easier to build applications on
	the NetBeans platform, and also wrote an excellent tutorial to go with
	it. Rich is a current member of the NetBeans board.
	</ul>
	<p>

	<p>Tim Boudreau
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