Blog Posts

November is the season for Eclipse Demo Camps. We have 30 different demo camps organized in cities around the world. For the first time we have a number of Campus Demo Camps organized to reach out to the academic and student communities. I’d love to attend all the demo camps...

Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) 2010 was a great success. I really enjoyed meeting old and new friends in the Eclipse community. The final attendance numbers was 467 attendees, a sell out! Each year we ask the attendees to answer some questions so we can get an appreciation of who is...

The Eclipse Enterprise Modeling Day was held yesterday in Zurich. We had over 100 people from 50 different companies in attendance. All the feedback was very positive and a lot of gratitude to UBS for being wonderful hosts. UPDATE: Christian Meier from UBS did a very nice summary of the...

My goodness, this past week has seen a flurry of despair around Java and the JCP. Most of it misguided, in my humble opinion. Matt Asay’s article does a good job of capturing all of the angst in one spot. If you haven’t read it, I recommend that you do...

We are getting very close to the maximum number of people we can host at Eclipse Summit Europe. There are about 30 spots left, after which we will be full, sold-out. In previous years, we have had 70 plus people register the week before the conference. Unfortunately, this year if...

As a follow-up to my web analytic post, Mark Phippard from Collabnet and Subclipse fame, posted some data they have been collecting from Subclipse. If you don’t know Subclipse, it is the #1 download on the Eclipse Marketplace and a popular Eclipse plugin for Subversion. I am a data junkie...

Dear Oracle, I hate to tell you but you need some help with the Java community. The basic problem is that people don’t trust you and you aren’t very good at community building; in fact you are pretty bad at community marketing. I really really want you to succeed and...

This past week I spent some time looking at the web stats, via Google Analytics, for eclipse.org. There are some interesting trends that I thought people might like to see. The following is a comparison of the traffic to http://www.eclipse.org from Sept 20 2009-Oct 20, 2009 and Sept 20, 2010-Oct...

Yesterday I described the reasons why I think the Eclipse Foundation should vote in favour of the Java 7 JSR when it is proposed. We are no where near as positive about the Java 8 JSR. The reason is modularity. We are just not comfortable that the direction of the...

Stephen Colebourne correctly pointed out in his blog this morning that when the Java 7 JSR is proposed to the JCP Executive Committee, that the Eclipse Foundation will vote “yes”. I think that it would be helpful to explain why that is the case. First, some history. The Eclipse Foundation...