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Last week at EclipseCon Europe, John Swainson gave a keynote address that reflected on IBM’s decision to start Eclipse as an open source project and consortium. During his speech, John identified 5 key things IBM thought they needed to be successful. These success factors are still relevant today for any...

This past week we made a number of announcements at EclipseCon Europe, including two new industry working groups. Below is a summary: 1. Eclipse Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation EclipseCon Europe kicked off a month of celebrating the Eclipse 10th birthday. We did a press release to highlight some of...

We are getting very close to 1 million successful installs on Eclipse Marketplace. Sometime later this week we should hit the 1 million mark. A pretty cool achievement for the Eclipse community! I’d like to have a screenshot showing the counter at exactly 1,000,000. If you by chance see the...

Work in earnest has begun on a replacement for the Eclipse Developer Portal. We’re being a little ambitious with this new effort. We need to do more than what the current portal does. And we need to make it natural and easy to use. Further, I’ve decided to expand the...

As I have written, Eclipse is celebrating 10 years of open source and community during the month of November. There have been a number of milestones that have shaped the Eclipse community but what have been the major accomplishments? What has Eclipse done to actually change the software industry? Here...

The new EclipseCon web site allows attendees to build their own schedule [1]. We can also mine this data to see what are the most popular sessions. Only 25 people have setup their own schedule but based on that data here are the top 10 most popular sessions. It will...

In just about 10 days, EclipseCon Europe and its storm of great keynotes, awesome talks, and yummy frosty beverage will be all upon its lucky participants. This year, two great programming contests will allow you to have fun doing what most of you do best: write code! In this post...

EclipseCon Europe starts in less than two weeks! It is shaping up to be our largest European conference. The highlight for me will be the celebration of the Eclipse 10th Birthday on Wednesday evening. A great thing about the conference is the global nature of the attendees. This year we...

Every time I post a new project proposal, I receive a handful of emails from people in the community asking to be added to the committer list on the proposal. But it doesn’t work that way: it’s really not up to me. For new projects, we have to cheat a...

I rolled out some changes last week that pull some information for Intellectual Property (IP) Logs from Git. IP Logs provide a record of where the various intellectual property contributions for a project come from; they are a very important tool when it comes to tracking the provenance of a...