Friday August 25, 2006 Seapegasus Blog
Friday August 25, 2006 Just a heads-up that NetBeans Governance Board Elections are approaching. Nominate your favorite candidates from the NetBeans community that you think should (and want to) become a board member by sending a message with their name to nbdiscuss AT netbeans DOT org, or use the contact form. The nomination period ends September 7th, then we'll make another call to vote for the nominated candidates.
Wondering what a governance board is, how it is elected, and who is on it? It's explained in the What is Open Source? section of netbeans.org. Being a board member means that you show interest in getting a deeper insight in decisions that make the NetBeans community tick, and that you take the responsibility to find a solution together with the other board members if a question concerning the community comes up. Things like, what license do we use, or will some NetBeans "representative" attend the Google Summer of Code. To see more examples of what the board actually does, have a look at the (low traffic) nbdiscuss mailing list archive.
Posted by seapegasus ( Aug 25 2006, 07:33:39 PM CEST ) PermalinkHm. What would you pick as a birthday present: Just something you can buy anywhere -- or something personal, unique, individual? Just a bunch of files on a storage medium -- or an actual spiffy object you can carry around with you?
Sounds like an easy choice? What if the spiffy object is the buy-off-the-shelf item, and the bunch-a-files is the unique individual hand-hacked item? Still easy? Hm...
Luckily, the question sorted itself out. My brother performed the Freundian slip of getting his unloved mobile stolen in a country where it does not even work(!). My mysterious bunch-a-files was targeted to be used on that phone. No phone? No phone-related birthday files. :-P So (to everyone's big relief) I gotta go with birthday present solution number two: A booooring iPod Nano.
What will happen to the poor carefully custom-made bunch-a-files? Will they be cruelly deleted? What if he buys a new phone (or gets one for his birthday), wouldn't they work on the new one too? Well, probably not. Nobody in their right mind uses midi NTH themes on a modern phone if you can have real tones and real graphics... Yep, that would have been my great birthday present idea. Custom theme files for his Nokia phone. =-)
Before they grow stale, I thought I just upload them here and donate them to the public domain. Whaddaya think?
Have fun...
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