PLEASE VOTE: NetBeans Governance Board

The nominations closed yesterday, and this is the final list of people 
who were nominated and did not refuse the nomination up until now:

 Tom Ball (Sun Employee)
 Niclas Hedhman
 Charlie Kelly
 Milos Kleint
 Maxym Mykhalchuk
 Michael Wever
 William Will

To cast your VOTE, please go to 
http://www.netbeans.org/articles/boardFall2002_form.html. The voting 
period closes on October/20, midnight in the last timezone.
You can also go to the netbeans.org website and click on the voting 
banner on any of the pages there.

The voting results and the new board will be announced after the voting 
closes, on Oct/21.

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The personal info for the nominees is on the voting page, and is also 
included below:

Tom Ball (Sun Employee) Has not submitted personal info.

Niclas Hedhman, 38 years old, recently married, living in Malaysia. 18 
years professional experience in process control and industrial 
automation systems. Became "Java for applications" advocate in 1996, 
implemented first Java-based building automation system in 1997. Became 
a JCP member in 2000, invited by the RMI group, for the JSR-78, dealing 
with Custom References in RMI. Currently Chief Software Architect at 
eWarna.com, which provides color communication and color management 
solutions for the textile industry.

Charlie Kelly is developing Netbeans modules for encrypted email and an 
encrypted file system. Charlie began studying computer science in 1967 
at St. Francis College. He taught computer science at Dalien Institute 
of Technology and taught information systems and operations research at 
the University of San Diego. He was CTO at Niwot Communications from 
1999 to June 2002.

Milos Kleint, 27 years old, Czech, currently living in Malaysia and 
working for the same company as Niclas Hedhman (eWarna.com). Previously 
working for Sun Microsystems on the netbeans project (version control 
modules) for 2 years.

Maxym Mykhalchuk, 22 years old, partnered ;), living in Ukraine. 2 years 
professional experience in AI programming. Recently graduated from the 
University, now applying for PhD. Currently System Programmer at SPA 
"Infomet" (child of SPA "Orbita"www.orbita.dp.ua), which provides GIS 
solutions for weather forecasting & weather monitoring.

Michael Wever, 25 years old, born and breed Australian, but recently (3 
weeks) immigrated to Norway. Bachelor in Computer Science and Physics, 
with thesis in Robotic software, Java3D, and reverse transformations. 
Worked with www.ECSI.com.au for 3 years developing solutions for the 
Coal and Metals Mining Industry primarily with Minex. Worked for the 
last 2 years designing and implementing architecture for Minex5, 
separating the existing product into a server application, and the 
client-gui on top of NetBeans. Experience also in C/C++ with OpenGL, and 
Fortran. When not cutting code I relish in rockclimbing and snowboarding.

William Will 43 years old, living with my domestic partner in San 
Francisco, California. My past lives were as an engineer, consultant and 
engineering manager. Xemus Software, the software engineering firm I 
helped found in San Francisco in 1997, is the main sponsor of Project 
XEMO, an open source project building music software with the NetBeans 
Platform. Having come from a primarily C/Lisp/Smalltalk background I 
have been working in Java since it hit the market in 1996. In a previous 
life I worked for Siemens/Nixdorf in Germany, which is where I received 
my high school and college education in Computer Science.