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Lots of companies build great products based on Eclipse. This year at EclipseCon, we want to showcase some of new Eclipse-based products that were released in 2010. The Hot New Product Showcase will occur Wednesday night of EclipseCon. EclipseCon attendees will have a chance to see these new products in...

On Friday, Mark Reinhold, mentioned that I have recently spent some time helping to help flesh out a draft governance model for the OpenJDK community. As John Duimovich described it, our goal is for OpenJDK to be “…an open, transparent, and meritocratic project that can be run in a lightweight...

Tomorrow, January 28, is the last day for Eclipse Community Award Nominations. Please remember to take the time to recognize an individual, project or project you think has made a difference in the Eclipse community. We already have some great nominees but I know there are others that deserve the...

Greetings Eclipse committers (especially those of you who are working on projects in the Indigo release train). Here are some important dates. We will be assembling the annual road map at the end of January. As part of this, we need the project plans for those projects that are participating...

For the cycling enthusiast in the Eclipse community, I introduce the one-of-a-kind Eclipse cycling jersey. Imagine how much faster you will go in this sleek new jersey. Imagine the conversation starters you will have explaining the Eclipse project TLAs to your fellow peleton members. Imagine the looks you will get...

Tonight, I did what I do every night: try to take over the world. The Eclipse Dashboard project has been stagnant for a while with no project lead or active committers, so–per the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), Section 4.6–I decided that the existing project leadership was dysfunctional and replaced it...

Each year the Eclipse Community Awards recognize some of the best Eclipse-based products. Out of the thousands and thousands of applications and tools built on Eclipse, a panel a judges selects a small number of the ‘best’ products in a variety of different categories. This year we have added two...

Sometime later today some very exciting new code is going to show up in the e4 git repository at Eclipse. “ Orion” is a brand new adventure for Eclipse, and one which we hope will interest and excite a whole new community: web developers. Orion is not a set of...

We at the Eclipse Foundation have been working with the Committer Reps to make a significant portion of the Friends of Eclipse money directly available to committers. Our intent is to help you do great things for the benefit of the Eclipse community. The amount of money that we have...

Before the break I started working on adding support for Git into the Eclipse Dashboard. I’m almost done. In fact, I have managed to generate the data for several projects: those projects that have correctly specified the location of their git repositories on our “dev” server. Or at least those...