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The process of electing the 2008 board of director slots has begun. As of this moment, there will be four elected committer representatives and four elected add-in provider representatives on next year’s board. However, under our Bylaws, the final determination will be made based on the total number of strategic...

Cities hosting DemoCamps: 31 Eclipse-based demos: 145 Total attendees: 760 Longest running event: Poznan Poland over 2 days Most Attendees: 61 in Sofia, Bulgaria Number of NetBeans evangelist registered: 1 in Austin (not sure if Gregg attended) Opportunities to meet other Eclipse enthusiasts: unlimited Thank you to all the organizers...

By popular demand we have added a Top Contributor award as a category to the Eclipse Community Awards. The key feature of a Top Contributor is that they make their contributions due to their passion for making Eclipse a better community. In general, no one is paying them for the...

I recently upgraded my laptop to the latest version of Ubuntu (“Goosy Gander”, or something). There’s some cool new features that I really enjoy, like working Bluetooth™ support. For kicks I turned on all the neat-o gee whiz graphics features (like that über cool compviz desktop cube thingy). Frankly, they...

An upcoming issue of IEEE Software will be discussing Software Development Tools. I’ve been asked by Arthur Ryman, who is one of the guest editors of this issue, to let the community know that they’re accepting article submissions for the issue. Arthur is particularly interested in articles that discuss the...

Normally, I like to make my unit tests so that they do not depend on external things running. As a general rule, I try to write tests that prove that the logic in my code works. While I care that communication between my application and, say, a database or application...

It has been just over 2 weeks since we open the Friends of Eclipse donation system. I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to make a donation and show their support. Today we had a special donation of $500 from David Lynch. In his comment David...

Bug Labs is a company I have been watching over the last couple of months. Besides having a great name, they are building a platform for consumer electronics using OSGi for the runtime and Eclipse for the SDK. They just announced their Eclipse based SDK, Dragonfly is now available. It...

The Eclipse Open System Engineering Environment (OSEE) project is one I have been interested in watching. Of particular interest is the fact it is being led by a group of engineers inside Boeing. In my opinion, I think the next wave of open source projects will involve non-traditional ISV’s, companies...

I just received one of those standard project announcements from Anne Jacko, but in it was something which really caught my eye: ——————————————————————- EMFT Project Announcement The EMFT project would like to announcement the creation of a new component, EMF4NET. The goal of EMF4Net is to enhance the Eclipse Modeling...