NetBeans Innovators Grant Winners

[tomwheel]

On behalf of the NetBeans Dream Team I am pleased to announce the
winners for the NetBeans Innovators Grant.  But before I do, I'd just
like to take an opportunity to say thanks to all those who submitted
proposals.  The response was even greater than we anticipated, but our
judges worked hard to read every single proposal.  The hardest part,
however, was narrowing down so many great proposals to just the list
of winners below.  This took longer we expected and we truly
appreciate your patience while the judges took a little extra time to
thoroughly consider the proposals.

Because there were several projects with similar names, I've included
the main contact's name for each project.  We'll be posting the list
of winners and a brief description of each project to the NetBeans Web
site soon.

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to Sun Microsystems for
their generous support of the NetBeans Innovators Grant.

Large projects
-------------------------------------------------------------
  CashForward (Bill Snyder)
  Cube°n (Anuradha Gunasekara)
  JavaSpaces (Magdalena Dukielska)
  IvyBeans (Laurent Forêt)
  NB Project (Sergey Sheypak)
  NB-XUL (Aditya Kumar Sharma)
  NetBeans Spot/Sun SPOT Plugin
  NbPython (Allan Davis)
  Scala Support (Caoyuan Deng)
  Visual JavaFX (Adam Kędziora)

Small projects
-------------------------------------------------------------
  CoffeeDregs (Kees Huizing)
  JSpree (ManiKanta G)
  Netbeans Update Service (Mark Ashworth)
  MONOH (Carlos Oliveira)
  Numbered Bookmarks (M.A.S. Jayasundara)
  PDFViewer (Steve Tzou)
  PL/SQL Editor (Alexandre Soumbatov)
  Project Darkstar Tools and Mobility Support (Karel Herink)
  Regular Expressions Module (Angad Singh)
  Resource Bundle Editor (Denis Stepanov)

Tom Wheeler, on behalf of the NetBeans Dream Team

[tomwheel]

On 4/16/08, Tom Wheeler <tomwheel@...> wrote:
> On behalf of the NetBeans Dream Team I am pleased to announce the
> winners for the NetBeans Innovators Grant.
...

The contact for "NB Project" was listed incorrectly in the
announcement. The correct contact for this project is Alessandro
Dourado.  I sincerely apologize for this error.

Tom Wheeler, on behalf of the NetBeans Dream Team

[holod ()]

tomwheel wrote:

On 4/16/08, Tom Wheeler <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On behalf of the NetBeans Dream Team I am pleased to announce the
> winners for the NetBeans Innovators Grant.
...

The contact for "NB Project" was listed incorrectly in the
announcement. The correct contact for this project is Alessandro
Dourado.  I sincerely apologize for this error.

Tom Wheeler, on behalf of the NetBeans Dream Team

I can't understand: Which project won the competition?
"AnimateNB" by Sergey Sheypak or "NB Project" by  Alessandro Dourado?
It seems to me, that's great mistake. What do I have to tell to my students?
Last evening we were in the list, this morning we are out.
What does it mean?
Please, explain.
That's very strange situation.
Thank you for your attention.

Sergey Sheypak.

P.S.
I even  surprised with attitude to participants: no one wrote me a letter.
I've just was really surprised when my name disappeared from  the list.
I've had to use Google to find the answer (I found this thread) why I am not in list.
You see, problem is not in the money or any other physical substance, problem is in the other thing:
we were waiting for 17 days, we were really nervous.
Finally, we are in list, great luck! Small victory, yes, we did it, we passed! Now we can realize our dream project, help to develop our favorite IDE.
And next morning we see that our project was excluded. (???) Why? If uor project didn't pass examination - no problem, of course there are a lot other distinguishing proposals and we wish good luck to other teams. But situation differs.
I am not a poet, I can't explain my feelings with beautiful powerful words.
But it really hearts.
Oranizators gives you a chance to realize your dream and then this chance is taken away, because somebody can't write 20 names without mistake.
That's amazing.
I thought such can happen only in Russia (country where I live). But no, even in the USA some people can make mistakes and other have to feel sufferings because of it.

Seems like I'am a second class person. Organizators allow theirself to do what they want. They can encourage you and your team and they can make really bad things.
That's unfair. I can't say more. I hope none of organizators will feel the same it their life. I don't want to make evil to someone. I am just really very sad like a child. :)

Excuse me for my aggressive letter and unpleasant words, but such situation can happen in kindergarten or in primary school, but it can't happen during serious international competition.

[tomwheel]

The project name was correct but the contact name was incorrect.
Therefore, it was Alessandro Dourado's project which won.

I agree it was a very unfortunate mistake, one that was completely my
fault and I very sincerely apologize again for the error.


On 4/18/08, holod <serega.sheypak@...> wrote:

> > The contact for "NB Project" was listed incorrectly in the
> > announcement. The correct contact for this project is Alessandro
> > Dourado.  I sincerely apologize for this error.
>
> I can't understand: Which project won the competition?
> "AnimateNB" by Sergey Sheypak or "NB Project" by  Alessandro Dourado?
> It seems to me, that's great mistake. What do I have to tell to my students?
> Last evening we were in the list, this morning we are out.
> What does it mean?
> Please, explain.
> Thank you for your attention.

--
Tom Wheeler
http://www.tomwheeler.com/

[Aditya Sharma]

what i would like to ask is that our project, NB-XUL ,  has been selected for the grant in the large project category but we have not had anything communicated to us on my email ( i am the primary contact), i understand there must be something that has to be done, or some other sort of communication must have taken place, the winners were announced via the mailing list, what i want to ask is, has anyone else had any communication ? and since the results were announced late has there been any change in the deadlines?


Regards,
Aditya Kumar Sharma

[holod]

Nevermind.

tomwheel wrote:

The project name was correct but the contact name was incorrect.
Therefore, it was Alessandro Dourado's project which won.

I agree it was a very unfortunate mistake, one that was completely my
fault and I very sincerely apologize again for the error.


On 4/18/08, holod <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > The contact for "NB Project" was listed incorrectly in the
> > announcement. The correct contact for this project is Alessandro
> > Dourado.  I sincerely apologize for this error.
>
> I can't understand: Which project won the competition?
> "AnimateNB" by Sergey Sheypak or "NB Project" by  Alessandro Dourado?
> It seems to me, that's great mistake. What do I have to tell to my students?
> Last evening we were in the list, this morning we are out.
> What does it mean?
> Please, explain.
> Thank you for your attention.

--
Tom Wheeler
http://www.tomwheeler.com/