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We have announce our EclipseCon keynote speakers and I think we have a great lineup of speakers from Redmonk, Forrester, Twitter, GitHub, Nashorn and Vert.x. This year we are going with 2 – 30 minute keynote speakers each morning, so we have double the number of speakers. On Tuesday, the...

Next week is the deadline to nominate an individual, project or product for an Eclipse Community Award. We have a lot of great nominees already but I know there are many other individuals, projects and products that deserve to be recognized. You can check out the current list of nominees...

When you run a project at Eclipse, you are very likely interested in getting some indicators regarding the health of your community. And as Randall Munroe suggests, maybe these indicators will be a good way for you to extrapolate on when your project will actually rule the world Download stats...

Open source governance is an important issue that is sometimes overlooked or misunderstood by new open source projects. This week there has been a fascinating discussion on the future of the vert.x project that illustrates the need and options for governing an open source project. Unlike some discussions on this...

The second annual ALM Connect conference is set for March 25-28 in Boston, co-located with EclipseCon. Building on the success of last years event, the program committee led by Dave West from Tasktop, has put together a great line-up of speakers and sessions. ALM Connect explores the rapidly changing landscape...

I received this message via the EMO inbox today: haha noobs your number sorting in project explorer is like a mistake from windows 95 this is ridiculously funny He’s right. It is ridiculously funny. I’m assuming that the sender is part of some nerd mafia and sent this message to...

Two years ago we started to allow advertising on eclipse.org. The goal was to help the commercial ecosystem be more successful, by communicating with the millions of developers who use Eclipse. In the end, this has also turned into a nice supplement to our existing membership revenue. In 2012, advertising...

Each year we recognize some of the leading individuals, projects and products in the Eclipse community with the Eclipse Community Awards. A lot of people spend a lot of time and effort supporting the Eclipse community so the Awards are a great opportunity to recognize these contributions. I know from...

Well, December 21st is here and the the apocalypse didn’t happen! But it’s still a big day at Eclipse because today at 12:00 noon, Eastern Time, our webmaster team of Denis and Matt started the process of turning CVS into a read-only service. At this point, we are down to...

The ALM Connect and EclipseCon schedule and sessions have been announced. As you would expect, the content looks excellent and we are set for another great conference. It takes a lot of time to put together the program, so I would like to thank the PC chairs John Arthorne (EclipseCon)...