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In my last post on EclispeCon 2010 Demographics, someone asked for a breakout by region. I took a quick look at the data and created some charts. In summary: – No surprise that 57% of attendees come from the US,Canada was the next largest at almost 9%, followed by Germany...

Each year when people register for EclipseCon we ask a small number of questions to better understand who is attending. As is the tradition, I publish the data so everyone can get a feel for who was at EclipseCon. For EclipseCon 2010, the top line summary is that the attendee...

I have been slow in publishing the second round voting of the logo feedback survey. Unfortunately, EclipseCon was pretty much all consuming for the past two weeks. We had another good turnout for the second round of voting, 1196 people participated. I really appreciate the time and feedback people provided...

My wife said something interesting to me when I arrived home from EclipseCon on Friday night. “It must be nice to be able to relax now that the conference has passed”, she said. Funny. Funny in that I feel like there’s so much more to do now that EclipseCon has...

A number of people asked me if the keynote Jeff Norris gave was recorded. Unfortunately we didn’t record any of the sessions this year. However, Chris Aniszczyk had the good sense to record the final four minutes of his presentation. Chris left a link to the clip in my comments...

The e4-Rover Mars Challenge has come to an end. The feedback and participation was outstanding. Thank you to everyone who played. We introduced e4 to a lot of people this week. There are two categories in the contest: Top Score and Best Client. The winner of the top score was...

I have been attending technical conferences and trade shows for over 20 years. I have seen hundreds of keynotes speakers, many very good. Today I saw the best keynote presentation ever! Jeff Norris from NASA JPL gave an amazing keynote presentation at EclipseCon. He was rewarded with a standing ovation...

The first release of the Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC) is now available in the Helios M6 Java IDE and RCP packages. This is the next step towards creating an ‘App Store’ like experience for the Eclipse ecosystem. The goal is to allow a developer to install a new Eclipse solution...

I am pleased to announce the results of the 2010 Board elections. The elected Committer Member representatives for 2010 will be: Chris Aniszczyk Boris Bokowski Ed Merks The elected Sustaining Member (e.g. Solution and Enterprise Member) representatives for 2010 will be: Hans Kamutzki Mik Kersten Adam Lieber Please join me...

On March 22, I will be presenting my revised edition of the Eclipse Development Process to the Eclipse Board of Directors for their approval. I’ve been discussing the upcoming changes in this blog, and in a handful of bug reports, so I’m pretty comfortable with the ideas. But like many...