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| <h1>NetBeans Community Honors Contributors</h1> |
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| <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. |
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| <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. |
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| <img src="../../../../images_www/javaone/crowdAtNetBeansSoftwareDay.jpg" width="600" height="400" |
| alt="A packed crowd at NetBeans Software Day (photo: J. Chalupa)"/> |
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| <i>A packed crowd at NetBeans Day</i> |
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| <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: |
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| <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)"/> |
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| <i>Rich Unger accepts his award from James Gosling and Tim Cramer</i> |
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| <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. |
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| <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. |
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| <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." |
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| <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. |
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| <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. |
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| <p>Tim Boudreau |
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