Blog Posts

Chris Aniszczyk has written how we have been doing more to solicit financial donations from the community. In particular, we’ve added the Donate Now buttons to our download pages; which happen to be our high traffic pages. Chris raises a good question on how far we should go with our...

Monday I blogged about some of the program plans we have for 2010 that are targeted at our project and committer community. Today, let’s turn to some of the things that we have in store for our members and the commercial ecosystem around Eclipse. Not all of these are new...

I am very pleased to announce that Eclipse Marketplace is now live. Thanks to everyone that provided feedback as we rolled out Marketplace. A big thanks to Nathan Gervias who has done a great job making Marketplace a reality. The results are fantastic. When we first started the project we...

I mentioned in a comment last week that — pending Board approval of the 2010 budget — there are a number of items which we’re looking at for 2010 that we at the Eclipse Foundations are pretty excited about. These are some major pieces of work that we are going...

We are all driven by deadlines. Each year the large majority of the EclipseCon session proposals are submitted the last two days before the deadline. However, having session proposals come in earlier give the program committee and the entire community more time to review and comment on the proposals. To...

Nominations are now open for the Eclipse Community Awards. Each year at EclipseCon we put the spotlight on a select group of individuals, products and projects that represent the best of the Eclipse community. Each year, we have some great and well deserving winners. This year we are making a...

It seems natural to me that the EGit project is doing their developing using Git itself. With this in mind, the EGit project has created and is managing their own Git instance on one of our vservers at egit.eclipse.org. With this server, the EGit project is helping us at the...

Bjorn, Your latest post deserves a clear response. Your former colleagues at the Eclipse Foundation have tolerated your public abuse quietly because we are professionals, and we honestly thought that you would tire of it. Apparently we were wrong. But the time has come to say it: You are a...

I am looking for someone to help write case studies about organizations using Eclipse and EclipseRT . The ideal person would have: 1) background in technical writing, 2) knowledgeable about Eclipse and 3) extra bonus: experience writing case studies. I expect this to be casual part-time work over the next...

Calling the Eclipse Ottawa community! The Eclipse Foundation would like to invite everyone in the local Eclipse community to join us at Marshy’s on the afternoon of December 18th. If you can make it, please add your name to the meetup page. We hope to see you there!