Blog Posts

Last week, I unveiled a new Eclipse Projects Landing page. So far, the feedback I’ve received has been almost entirely positive. Frankly, I figured I’d get beat up over it being “too busy” or something, but I’ve received none of that. The only not-entirely-positive (though not strictly negative) feedback I...

We have three reviews are scheduled for the week of April 20-27/2011. You can provide feedback on these reviews on the channels indicated in the review documents, or on the eclipse.proposals forum. As is their tradition, the EGit and JGit projects have combined their respective 0.12.0 releases into a convenient...

It is that time of year to start thinking about organizing an Eclipse DemoCamp. Each year we run a series of DemoCamps to highlight the June release train, so we are now getting ready for the Indigo DemoCamps. Organizing a DemoCamp is really simple: 1) Find a location that can...

Eclipse has a large community of developers working in all types of industries, using different languages and creating different types of applications and software. Once a year we try to get a snapshot of what these developers are doing and using with Eclipse. These snapshots allow us to understand the...

I thought Gunnar Hellekson’s post on the recent RFP from the US Veteran’s Administration (VA) to open source their VistA electronic healthcare record (EHR) system was a great overview of the challenges facing massive government agencies as they attempt to adopt an open source approach to their mission. I definitely...

Each year we do a survey of the Eclipse community. The goal is to better understand of how people are using Eclipse and in what type of environment. This will be the fourth year we have run the survey so we also have an opportunity to track trends, like what...

For the Indigo release, our goal is to make it a LOT easier to install products using the Marketplace Client (MPC). One of the key new features in the MPC Indigo release will be support for drag and drop install. In the recent M6 release, you can test out this...

Each year, the Eclipse Foundation recognizes key contributors and committers amongst its community with awards. This year we created a new Lifetime Contribution Award to recognize an individual who has a long, sustained record of contribution to Eclipse as a whole. That is, all three communities of Eclipse: adopters, users...

Another EclipseCon has come to an end. EclipseCon is always fun, busy, exciting, exhausting and leaves me in awe of how great the people are in the Eclipse community. Here are some of my highlights from the week. Launch of Orion and OrionHub This was the big launch for Orion...

I am pleased to announce the results of the 2011 Eclipse Foundation Board elections. The elected Committer Member representatives for 2011 will be: Chris Aniszczyk Boris Bokowski Ed Merks The elected Sustaining Member (e.g. Solution and Enterprise Member) representatives for 2011 will be: Eric Clayberg (Google) Hans Kamutzki (MicroDoc) Mik...