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The Eclipse Foundation has evolved a pretty impressive application lifecycle management story. Based on what I’ve observed over the years, I believe that it’s completely reasonable to say that our ALM story is one of the best in the world: the envy of hundreds of open source projects and closed...

Today, the pending OpenStack Foundation announced an impressive list of 20 companies that will be supporting the creation of the Foundation. I have a lot of respect for what the Open Stack community has accomplished and the formation of a non-for-profit Foundation seems like a great next step. However, this...

EclipseCon had a ton of great speakers and content. This year we asked the attendees to provide on-line feedback on each session they attended and over 250 attendees gave a +1, 0 or -1 to at least one session or tutorial. We have published a summary of all the session...

Thank you to everyone who attended EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect last week. It was an awesome experience and I enjoyed meeting so many new people in the Eclipse community. A special thank you to all the sponsors who through their support make the conference possible. A couple of important...

EclipseCon finally arrives next week. The Cherry Blossoms appear to be in full bloom in DC, our sponsors are ready, and we have an awesome program lined up. It should be a great week! A couple of reminders: 1. We have a great line up of products for our New...

Beware the IDEs of March. For each release, an Eclipse project is required to provide a project plan. The project plan is created at the beginning of a release cycle and may be modified throughout the cycle. The plan tells the community what the main areas of focus are in...

I’ve been talking a lot about diversity lately. There are, of course, different kinds of diversity; but when I talk about diversity, I tend to mean diversity in the organizations contributing to an open source project: multiple organizations from different parts of the industry working together. Doug tweeted recently on...

EclipseCon always attracts an international group of attendees, this year is no different. 33 different countries will be represented at EclipseCon 2012. Below is a list of countries that will be represented. United States Canada Germany France United Kingdom Switzerland Sweden Austria Bulgaria Denmark Brazil Japan Russia Norway South Korea...

Oracle just announced the call for papers for JavaOne 2012 for September 30-October 4. It would be great to have a ton more Eclipse content this year at JavaOne. In past years, Eclipse content has been light but from a brief twitter conversation with some key Oracle Java folks there...

This year at EclipseCon we are going to have our first-ever Top Coder competition. During the Eclipse Award Ceremony, some lucky attendees will be invited up on stage to participate in games of skill and trivia to determine the Top Coder. Thanks to Jonas Helming, the Top Coder will have...