Blog Posts

Yesterday we announce the finalist for the Eclipse Community Awards. I’d like to congratulate all of the individuals, projects and companies that were named as finalist. I have a particular bias towards the individual award category. The people that have been named as finalist represent what makes Eclipse a great...

Friday, February 25 is the deadline to vote for the E clipse Community Awards. Each year, a lot of people do tremendous things for the Eclipse community. The nominees this year represent some of the people who have made a real difference during the past year. Show your support and...

Voting begins today for the 2011 Eclipse Foundation Board of Director elections. We have a great slate of candidates, each of whom brings a great deal of knowledge and experience with the Eclipse community to the table. I highly encourage everyone to get involved with this process and vote! I...

I’m at it again. I’ve made myself the project lead for yet another project and have nominated myself as a committer. This time, my target is Dash (you may recall that my last step toward world domination involved the Dashboard subproject). Slowly… bit by bit… I am taking over… The...

As many of you are already aware, we started a new Friends of Eclipse Disbursements programme this year through which we are making funds gathered through “ Friends of Eclipse” available to the community. Chris blogged about this in January. To get access to these funds, you need to open...

Over the past six months or so, I’ve monitored conversations concerning the migration of project code from CVS to Git in the dev-lists of several projects. Most developers, it seems, understand the value proposition of migrating, despite their concerns that with migration comes a whole lot of new learnin’ as...

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, the nominations are in, and the “campaign” phase of our 2011 Board of Director elections in now in full swing. I have to say that I am particularly impressed with the quality of the candidates this year. There are a lot of well-known and...

Today, Nuxeo announced they would like to start a new open source project at the Eclipse Foundation, based on their existing Nuxeo Core technology. We always like getting new and interesting project proposals but I think this one is important for two reasons: 1) Foundation for innovation. As Matt Aslett...

I am sad to announce that this will be Lynn Gayowsk’s last week with the Eclipse Foundation. Lynn has decided to accept a new position with Klocwork, a software company here in Ottawa. As many of you know, Lynn has been a fantastic part of the Eclipse Foundation and the...

Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC) is becoming a popular way to install new plugins into Eclipse. There are 265 solutions available from MPC, so a great selection is developing. I recently blogged the top 10 solutions on Eclipse Marketplace but I thought it would be interesting to discover what are the...