Blog Posts

This year we are running two special ‘executive’ events at EclipseCon and ALM Connect: 1) Open Source Executive Summit and 2) ALM Connect Executive Day. These events are meant to address the business issues and strategies IT executives need to consider when creating a modern software development team. The Open...

Earlier today, we started a pretty bold move from one data centre to a brand-spanking new one across the city. I say bold, because we had to take ourselves completely offline while we disconnected more than thirty bits of hardware, shipped it across the city, and then reassembled it all...

I’ll admit that a really big part of me wanted to see who would notice. Last week, I relatively quietly changed how we represent project metadata by switching parts of the Eclipse projects website and the corresponding elements in the developer portal over to the new Project Management Infrastructure (PMI)...

Most of the open source projects that I’m familiar with don’t tend to take significant contributions unless they come with development resources. Taking on significant new functionality can be pretty daunting for development teams that are already stretched. But how do you on-board new developer (committers) while observing the open...

Over the next couple of days, many of you might notice a new donation page when you download Eclipse. We are starting to roll-out this new page to encourage more of our user community to support the activities of the Eclipse Foundation. The last couple of years we have had...

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...