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Each year the Eclipse community delivers a lot of great new technology as part of the annual release. Each year we get great reviews from the community about what they find cool and interesting in the release. For instance, Ian Bull did a great top 10 list for Galileo. The...

The results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2010 are now available. Thank you to everyone, all 1696 people, that took the time to give us your feedback. A challenge for lots of open source communities is understanding the dynamics in the community, so these results provide a useful data point...

The response of our Friends of Helios campaign has been simply outstanding!! Since we launched the campaign 171 people have joined as a Friend of Eclipse. Thank you, thank you, thank you! We just need 189 more people to join by the end of July to hit our goal of...

Ian and I represented Eclipse in the Google I/O Sandbox. We used the Open Social support being developed in the E4 project as our hook. I estimate that less than 50% of the folks who dropped by the booth were familiar with Open Social. A lot of folks just dropped...

Back in December, I discussed a number of initiatives that the Eclipse Foundation was going to be working on in 2010. The one that attracted the most feedback was “Eclipse Labs”. Well, we are very happy to announce that thanks to Google, this idea has become a reality. Better yet...

This Friday, May 14 is the deadline for people to participate in the Eclipse Community Survey. If you haven’t already participated, I would be grateful if you would spend 5-10 minutes completing the survey. Like last year, we use the feedback to publish some interesting insights and perspectives on the...

Friends of Eclipse is a successful program to allow individuals in the greater Eclipse community to contribute back to Eclipse. Not everyone has the time or the ability to contribute code, write documentation, write tutorials or even open bugs but lots of people have been happy to contribute $35 to...

A new version of the Marketplace Client (MPC) is now available the the Java IDE and RCP M7 packages. The client is looking really nice and I have high hopes it will be a big success for the Eclipse ecosystem. To prove how simple it is to install an Eclipse...

A good sign of a healthy ecosystem is the emergence of competing solutions. Eclipse has long provided tooling support for OSGi. Now it seems NetBeans and IntelliJ are ready to provide OSGi support. The upcoming NetBeans 6.9 release features support for OSGi, which James Gosling calls ‘ getting pretty sweet.’...

Matt Stine is proposing to create an OSGi on Rails. This is exactly the type of innovation and easy on ramp the OSGi community needs to embrace if OSGi is going to cross the chasm. Lets hope this idea gets the support it deserves.