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It's A Wrap ---
JavaOne 2009 Community One and JavaOne
Highlights
Over 15,000 enthusiastic developers and students from 90 different
countries gathered in person and online last week for the 3rd annual CommunityOne
and 14th annual JavaOne
conferences in San Francisco. An energetic audience of developers,
students and open source advocates and leaders had the opportunity to
learn from community experts in over 70 technical sessions, Lightning
Talks and Hands-on Labs on a variety of topics ranging from cloud to
web, to operating systems to social and collaborative platforms. Resources:
NetBeans
DreamTeam:
The
NetBeans
Dream Team is a community-driven group of highly skilled NetBeans users
and contributors. They participate at NetBeans developer events, on
mailing lists and developer forums, providing new, interesting and
informative content as well as developing new and creative ways to
promote NetBeans. Mission
Statement:
The NetBeans Dream Team strives to
make the NetBeans open source project more accessible to our user,
contributor, and partner communities. Roles and
Responsibilities:
The founding members have been asked to
draft a charter of responsibilities for the group
They are responsible for creating
admission guidelines, recruiting, screening & accepting new members
Act & represent the interests of
NetBeans in a positive, professional manner
Involved in NetBeans related activities
a week. (ie blogging, writing content, localization work, answering
questions on mailing list & representing NetBeans on industry
forums, NetCAT participation,
Act as a local representative and
contact for NetBeans & their skill set
James Gosling made
Honorary Dream Team Member onstage at JavaOne 2009
April 16-17,
2009 Amsterdaam NetBeans Dream
Team visit Amsterdaam HogeSchule for training -- **More** on Toni
Epple's blog
NetBeans Demo Camp at JUG Genova
11/25/08,6:30-9:30PM
A
interactive presentation (with lots of live demos) of the NetBeans 6.5
latest features and of a range of related tools and technologies,
including:
* NetBeans 6.5 by DreamTeam member Fabrizio
Giudici
* Integrating JavaFX with Java by Giampaolo Melis of MoteNav
fame
* more NetBeans demos by JUGGenova
Profiling
NetBeans within Amazon Ec2 by Alan Williamson Kirk
Pepperdine has started to move his benchmarking knowledge to the
world of clouds. We are going to start seeing some real reports as one
of the worlds leading Java performance tuning experts turns his
attention to the world of clouds. Learn what all the fuss is about here on Kirk Pepperdine's blog.
NetBeans Community Award Winner Q and A -- Lorent Foret
"IvyBeans" -- Silver Medal Sun.com
interviews Award winner Lorent Foret:
"...IvyBeans provide a full Apache Ivy
integration into the library management feature of the NetBeans IDE.
That means, directly from NetBeans you have access to a dependency
manager like Ivy, which helps you manage the dependencies between your
projects and third party libraries, especially open source
libraries.... -- Lorent Foret" MORE
Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans Community Kick Off
World Tour and Announce NetBeans Innovators Grant Winners Sun Sponsored Challenge
Program Recognizes Open Source Technology Innovation With 13 Winners
Sharing $127,500 Prize
..."It has been a wonderful opportunity to
bring something alive that we believe in," said Anuradha Gunasekara,
creator of Cube'n NetBeans plug-in as he reflects upon the contest.
"Taking part in the project and winning the NetBeans Innovators Grant
project was an opportunity that comes along once in a lifetime!"
Celebrate Software Freedom Day with NetBeans! Annual Software Freedom
Day -- Sept. 20, 2008 -- Celebrate the virtues of free and open source
software
"...Can you imagine not having access to
the NetBeans IDE source code? Not being able to adapt NetBeans IDE to
your needs or create NetBeans plugins for the benefits of other
developers? Or contribute your knowledge to help make the NetBeans IDE
the ultimate development environment? Well, neither can we! ..."
Interview: Rom Feria, Project Leader of JEDI Program --
NetBeans.org Rommel Feria discusses
Java Education Development Initiative (Philippines):
"...The Java Education & Development
Initiative (JEDI) Project is a partnership of the UP Java Research
& Development Center (UP JRDC) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. with the
aim of providing free and open source Computer Science/IT courseware
for colleges and universities...."
Python in NetBeans: NBPython at Ted Leung on the Air
"...One of the obvious things that Sun
could do in the Python world is to make Python a supported language in
the NetBeans IDE. NetBeans has really nice support for Ruby and
Javascript, so why should Python be left out? So today Sun is
announcing that a future version of NetBeans will provide support for
Python. We are not announcing which release of NetBeans that will be
because we are taking an unconventional (at least for NetBeans) path
towards providing that support...."
New TeamMates --
Community currently at 28 Members.
Hon.
James Gosling
USA
Honorary
member NetBeans Dream Team; "Father of Java"
Has
a proven strong allegiance to and is passionate about NetBeans; Strong
character: honest, reputable and knowledgeable
Not an employee of Sun Microsystems
Actively involved in the NetBeans community and
projects
Specialist in one or more areas of NetBeans
(including packs & Platform)
Individuals who can influence others (for
example):
Active on NetBeans mailing lists, industry forums
and/or at industry events
Leader or Member of a Java User Group (JUG), open
source project or other complimentary community
Lead in a large development team
Professor/Instructor
Experienced blogger
Industry analyst
NetBeans Module Developer
NetBeans Patch Contributor
Other Considerations: Language skills; Research
projects;
Term Limits: 1 year term with a simple confirmation process
to continue if the member elects to continue to be a member. Members
are asked if they would like to continue to be a member every year.
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