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Eclipse will be giving away Eclipse t-shirts at JavaOne. All thanks to the cooperation and sponsorship of 12 Eclipse member companies: Actuate, Agitar, BEA, Catalyst/Openmake, Compuware, Datamirror, Enerjy, Exadel, JBoss, M7, Parasoft and Sybase. As with all good things in life, nothing is completely free. To receive a t-shirt, all...

As a JavaOne exhibitor, Eclipse received a number of free 1 day passes to the exhibit hall. Let me know if you are interested in using one of these passes. I will need to mail them to you, so e-mail (ian skerrett at eclipse dot org) me your mailing address...

About two weeks ago, I suggested we do something to celebrate once Eclipse 3.1 reaches the million download mark. Kim Horne came up with a great idea that allows all Eclipse enthusiasts to participate and help the broader community. Her idea is to have willing participants donate volunteer time or...

Macromedia has just announced that they are joining Eclipse and building their next generation tools based on Eclipse. This is very cool and it seems others agree.

Congratulations to the BIRT team on their 1.0 release.

How fast do you think Eclipse 3.1 can reach 1 million downloads? 20, 30, 40 or 50 days? We are thinking of putting this challenge out to the community. If we reach one million downloads in xx days then the Eclipse Foundation will do something special. Not sure what ‘that’...

Last month, I started collecting screen shots of applications that have been built on Eclipse RCP. It is great to see the diversity of open source and commercial applications. When we launch 3.1 we are planning to put a major emphasis on the success of Eclipse RCP. Showing that people...

We are planning to brief some industry analysts on the Eclipse 3.1 launch. We do this to make sure they understand the new news about Eclipse, so they can communicate it to their customers. Their customers tend to be decision makers in the large companies and ISVs. The hope is...

As part of the June launch, I would like to make available a series of screencasts featuring the new Eclipse features. The idea is to provide 2-4 minute demos of different Eclipse features. I’ve suggested to each of the projects that this might be a useful way to communicate their...

I am starting to write the press releases and analyst briefing materials for our June launch. We have decided to focus on two press releases: The fact that Eclipse is more than just a Java IDE and will be shipping 9 projects in the June/July timeframe Eclipse RCP is here...