This is the final week of nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards. I would particularly like to see more nominees in the Top Committer, Top Contributor and Newcomer Evangelist category. Deadline for nominations is Friday, January 27, 2012.
Congratulations to the Orion team for being named a 2011 Open Source Rookie of the Year project by Black Duck Software. Black Duck based the awards on the data they analyzed from their two services: Ohloh and the Black Duck Knowledgebase. The metrics they used were: “Using a weighted scoring...
One of the driving motivations for organizing Agile ALM Connect is the belief there is a change occurring in how organizations are building enterprise applications and the overall software development lifecycle. Motivating this change things like agile development, cloud computing, mobile development, and new tools integration which require a new...
The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines–in its section on principles–three open source rules of engagement: Openness, Transparency, and Meritocracy: Open – Eclipse is open to all; Eclipse provides the same opportunity to all. Everyone participates with the same rules; there are no rules to exclude any potential contributors which include...
I ran a query against Dash to get some sense for project activity over the past couple of years. The graph below shows a comparison of how many active projects we have at Eclipse, compared against the total number of projects. For the purposes of this graph, I have defined...
Note: I am going to start a series of blog posts about industry trends and how they will be represented at EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect. Last week was about Support for Emerging Languages. Domain Specific Languages (DSL) is a term you hear more and more about as people try...
Welcome to 2012 folks, its going to be a busy and exciting year. There will be a number of important new projects, programs and initiatives across the Eclipse community. When we’re done Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation is going to be quite a different – and even more interesting –...
In the last number of years there has been a boom in the creation of new computer languages. Some might wonder why we need so many new languages but one thing I have found is that software developers can be very passionate about software languages. Another gratifying trend is the...
In early November we announced a new industry working group to focus on the emerging machine-to-machine (M2M) market. This working group has been formally created, the IWG charter has been finalized and IBM, Sierra Wireless, Eurotech and Axeda are the initial members. One of the first activities is to create...
As many people know, we have moved EclipseCon to Reston, Virginia from the our usual location in Santa Clara, California. I am very excited about trying out the new location. For many returning and new attendees there are some key reason I think Reston is going to be a great...