Three ways to reach open source developers and decision-makers
If you want to put your organisation in front of developers, architects, and the people who actually decide what gets...
Eclipse Marketplace: Neon and 20 Million
The Eclipse Neon release is now out. I also noticed Eclipse Marketplace just passed the 20 million successful install milestone...
Longest Serving Eclipse Neon Contributors
I’ve been running various queries against our Git index database. I decided to see who are our longest standing contributors...
Eclipse Contributors Since the Beginning of Time
In my last post, I made reference to all the people named Dave that have contributed to Eclipse over the...
UUID Removal from Neon
Two weeks ago, we informed the Eclipse community cross-projects mailing list that a unique user id (UUID) had been introduced...
OMA Survey Points to Importance of Open Standards and Open Source
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) recently published a survey about the trends of open source and open standards in the...
These Are the Daves I Know
Over the years, many people have contributed to Eclipse projects, including some thirty-nine software developers (39) named Dave or David...
It’s FEEP-ing time!
FEEP does sound like a bird call, but it stands for Friend of Eclipse Enhancement Program. Yes, it is a...
On making standards organizations and open source communities work hand in hand
Did you know that the Eclipse Foundation is home to many open source implementations of industry standards? From IETF to...
Eclipse Platform on Java 9 b118
Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen...
New Eclipse Download Page
The Eclipse Board of Directors has asked the Eclipse Foundation to redesign the eclipse.org download page. The current download page...
Git Staging View
I’ll admit that I never bothered much with the Git Staging View before now, preferring instead to make all of...
5 Things I Learnt at IoT World 2016
Last week I attended IoT World in Santa Clara. It was a great event, and what was particularly exciting was...