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As I have mentioned, we did a beta release of the Marketplace (MPC) client as part of the Java IDE and RCP Helios M6 packages. A critical part of the project is the user interface design for MPC. We want to make sure it kicks ass. Therefore, we are going...

Last year we published the results of our Eclipse Community Survey. It provides an interesting snapshot into how developers use Eclipse and the wider software development community. However, with all survey data the really interesting information is in the trends that begin to appear over a period of time. Therefore...

A while ago, we received a request to take a look at an open letter on the compatibility of the Eclipse Public License ( EPL) and the GNU General Public License ( GPL). This led to a number of conversations with the Free Software Foundation ( FSF) on the topic...

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...

I have never liked the term ‘Open Source Company”. It is an attempt by a few to hijack the open source label for essentially marketing and maybe financing (venture capitalist) purposes. Let me be clear, I have no problem with companies actively participating and promoting open source as part of...

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...