Last Call for NetBeans Governance Board Voting

This is a reminder for the NetBeans Governance Board voting that is in 
progress and will close today, Thursday May/29.  The list of nominees you can
vote for are:

Vincent Brabant
Svata Dedic
Maxym Mykhalchuk
Tor Norbye

To cast your VOTE, please go to:
http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/boardFall2003_form.html. The 
voting period closes on May/29, 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 May/30.

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The personal info for the nominees is included below:

Vincent Brabant, Has not submitted personal info but you can check out the 
interview with Vincent <http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/sprout/2003-02-04.html> from Sprout 8.

Svatopluk Dedic - Svatopluk Dedic, 28 years old, Czech. Studied
Computer Science at Charles University, worked for several local companies
on multimedia apps and banking software, then worked on NetBeans (modules
java, javadoc, beans, clazz) for SUN Microsystems for 3 years, now working
for Systinet (for a very short time). Past experiences in Java and C++, 
mainly building client applications and GUIs.

Maxym Mykhalchuk - Maxym Mykhalchuk, 23 years old, living in Ukraine.
3 years professional programming experience: AI, Database design, I18N. 
Currently Lead Ingeneer at SPA Infomet (www.orbita.dp.ua), which provides GIS
solutions for weather forecasting & weather monitoring.  
NetBeans interests:  I18/NL10N, Russian translation of the IDE, Marketing in
Russian community.

Tor Norbye (Sun Employee) - Tor Norbye (http://www.norbye.org/tor),
works for Sun Microsystems, in California. Has in the past written a couple
of commercial modules on top of NetBeans for Sun's tools products. Currently
working on a "secret" Sun product yet to be announced.  NetBeans involvement
these days limited to the tasklist module project in his spare time;
http://tasklist.netbeans.org