An Open Source Fascicule

The big news this week has to be the change in the NetBeans Community Docs Coordinator post - the job that was done flawlessly for the past year by the first Coordinator Amit Kumar Saha . To fill in his boots and take over the huge responsibility, we have Mr Varun Nischal as announced by James Branam.

For me, Amit Kumar Saha was a source of inspiration, and someone who had so much to offer for the community as well as for all the NetBeans enthusiasts and contributers. He is a thorough professional and would always be there for any help or advice regarding NetBeans Community Docs. He guided me through creating my first Doc right from where to start, how to create the wiki pages and everything. Now I have contributed four Docs to the community, and he supervised all of them brilliantly. Not only would he try out the tutorials and suggest proper improvements, but he would take time out from his busy schedule and edit the docs to make them perfect!

Hats off to Amit!! For the dedicated and superb work! He has surely taken the NetBeans Wiki to a new level, one which we all can be proud of!

And.. to shoulder the huge responsibility, who else could we ask for than Varun Nischal. Varun has been an active contributer and NetBeans enthusiast since a long time. We hope you carry forward the wiki revolution with the same zeal and enthusiasm and take the Community Docs program to greater heights.

Me and varun are also planning on building a new module project, that will have support for Community Docs creation and other facilities within the IDE. For more information, see my earlier post How about Community Docs within the IDE? as well as Varuns proposal. We welcome all NetBeaners to come up with their ideas and suggestions to turn this idea into reality!

Again GoodBye Amit.K.Saha and wish you all success for the future! I am sure you will still have a lot more to offer to the community! And... Welcome Varun Nischal!!