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Each year the Eclipse Foundation gives out Eclipse t-shirts at JavaOne. This year we are asking for help to design the shirt. For those Eclipse fashion police, this is your chance to put your money where you mouth is. Please submit your ideas via this bug.

eWeek has published their list of the top 15 Open Source Influencers. I think it represents a pretty good cross section of people that are currently deeply involved with open source software. Of course I am also biased since Mike Milinkovich is #3 on the list. Congrats Mike! Of course...

Eric Rizzo received the Top Newcomer Evangelist award at EclipseCon 2008. In this podcast, Eric discusses his tireless work with the Eclipse newcomer newsgroup, getting help with Eclipse, and more. The link should also soon be available on Eclipse Live.

The Google Summer of Code timeline is posted in the GSoC FAQ. According to the timeline, students have until March 31 to submit their project proposals. Don’t delay, submit today!

I just posted a video podcast titled “ Creating an Equinox Service using Declarative Services“. This video podcast briefly describes Equinox services and goes through the steps required to create and run a service using the Equinox Declarative Services (in incubation at the time of recording). For the recording, I...

Each year I try to report on the demographics of the EclipseCon attendees; here are the 2007 and 2006 reports. We collect this information when people register for the conference. It is optional, so not everyone responded but we have about 1300 responses. Years of Experience with Eclipse Similar to...

We’ve received many wonderful applications; I’m really looking forward to this term’s GSoC. Students, you need to submit your proposals through the Google Summer of Code system. You can find it here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/. You will have to register with Google if you want them to pay you for your efforts...

Google has opened their Summer of Code 2008 application system up for students, so now is the time. The student application deadline is March 31 @ 5pm PDT. We have already received a bunch of applications and there’s some good stuff. There are also a lot of incomplete proposals. Students...

I’ve been trying to decide how to work with Equinox services in the user interface. I’ve started modifying the Organizer application that will soon be part of the Eclipse Examples Project (once it’s provisioned) to use Equinox services. I’ve got a view that updates its appearance based on available services...

If you missed EclipseCon or you want in-depth Eclipse RCP training, then consider registering for a 4-day RCP course in a city near you. If you register before March 31, you will receive a 10% discount on the regular price. Courses will be offered in 22 cities from May 19-June...