NetBeans Teams

Development

The development team develops the NetBeans IDE and Platform. It makes sure the IDE has the right set of features, and the implementation is clean, fast and rock-solid. For more details about the team, see the Development team pages and the NetBeans wiki.

User Interface (UI)

The UI team designs the user interface of the IDE. They focus on usability, intuitivity, developer productivity, taking into account accessibility requirements and design principles such as the Java Look & Feel Guidelines. Find out more on the UI website, or read the interview.

Quality Assurance (QA)

The QA team makes sure the NetBeans IDE & Platform work as advertised. This includes building and maintaining a suite of automated tests, a regular community acceptance testing propram, as well as maintenance of the bug database. See the QA team pages to find out more.

Evangelism

The Evangelism team is responsible for the promotion of NetBeans (including tradeshows, conferences, press, regional-specific activities, education, etc.), the product information content of the netbeans.org website, and other marketing activities. To see how you can join and participate see the Evangelism team pages.

Web Content

The Web team makes sure the NetBeans website and wiki are state-of-the-art sources of information for the NetBeans community. They feature news, videos and tutorials, make interviews and announcements, and write product feature descriptions. The website uses CollabNet's SourceCast infrastructure with a custom NetBeans look&feel. See the Web team pages to find out more.

The NetBeans Dream Team

The NetBeans Dream Team is a community-driven group of highly skilled NetBeans users. 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. They are experts in one or more areas of NetBeans and act as a local representative for NetBeans users in their area and for their skill set.