Results of the NetBeans Governance Board Election

The NetBeans Governance Board Election closed Monday, March 2nd, and the 
NetBeans team is pleased to present the new members of the 16th cycle of 
the Governance Board.

But first, a big THANK YOU to all our accomplished nominees 
<http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/election_profiles.html> 
listed below for taking part in this election and for their continued 
support of the NetBeans project.

    * Toni Epple
    * Ryan de Laplante
    * Fabrizio Giudici
    * Tonny Kohar
    * Kristian Rink
    * Tom Wheeler

The results: The community representatives for the new NetBeans 
Governance Board are *Fabrizio Giudici* and *Tom Wheeler*. This is 
Fabrizio's first appointment to the Board and Tom's third term. Both are 
also members of the NetBeans Dream Team.

The Sun Microsystems appointee and third member of the NetBeans 
Governance Board is *James Branam*. James is a NetBeans Technical 
Writer, and Manager of the NetBeans Community Docs Program 
<http://wiki.netbeans.org/CommunityDocs>.

Please join us in congratulating Fabrizio, Tom and James!

For more information about NetBeans Governance, and the election 
process, please see the following pages:

NetBeans Governance <http://www.netbeans.org/about/os/governance.html>
Board Election Process 
<http://www.netbeans.org/about/os/election-process.html>
The Current and Past Board Members 
<http://www.netbeans.org/about/os/who-board.html>

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Thank you.