I received this message via the EMO inbox today: haha noobs your number sorting in project explorer is like a mistake from windows 95 this is ridiculously funny He’s right. It is ridiculously funny. I’m assuming that the sender is part of some nerd mafia and sent this message to...
Two years ago we started to allow advertising on eclipse.org. The goal was to help the commercial ecosystem be more successful, by communicating with the millions of developers who use Eclipse. In the end, this has also turned into a nice supplement to our existing membership revenue. In 2012, advertising...
Each year we recognize some of the leading individuals, projects and products in the Eclipse community with the Eclipse Community Awards. A lot of people spend a lot of time and effort supporting the Eclipse community so the Awards are a great opportunity to recognize these contributions. I know from...
Well, December 21st is here and the the apocalypse didn’t happen! But it’s still a big day at Eclipse because today at 12:00 noon, Eastern Time, our webmaster team of Denis and Matt started the process of turning CVS into a read-only service. At this point, we are down to...
The ALM Connect and EclipseCon schedule and sessions have been announced. As you would expect, the content looks excellent and we are set for another great conference. It takes a lot of time to put together the program, so I would like to thank the PC chairs John Arthorne (EclipseCon)...
My previous entry spoke of an open source project’s responsibility to keep their community informed. In that entry, I focused on a big part of a project’s outbound communcation: the project website. Communication, though, extends beyond outward communication. A successful project needs to be connected to the community and that...
I receive a lot of email from the community. Much of it is from frustrated users who are trying to make something work. Here’s a recent example: The problem was that I didn’t realise that the [project] comes ON TOP of Eclipse…I thought that the [project] was something separate and...
If you follow me on Twitter ( @waynebeaton), then you may have noticed that I’ve been doing a reasonably good impression of the Grim Reaper. A lot of Eclipse projects have been terminated over the last couple of weeks. There’s more to come. Termination of projects is a pretty natural...
The ALM Connect and EclipseCon Call for Papers deadline is less than 2 weeks away. We have some great submissions already but we want to see a lot more. The official call for papers provides all the detail but there are some areas where I’d like to see even more...
The topic of good governance for open source projects is something I think is really important for the long-term success of any open source project. In an effort to describe some of the best practices, I have written a guest blog post for the Open Source Delivers blog. For a...