Blog Posts

Round 1 of the voting for a modernized Eclipse Logo is now finished. We had an incredible 2128 people vote; a great response! Thank you. Unfortunately, Houston we have a bit of a problem. The two leading design concepts (Logo 1 and Logo 2) really don’t fit the original goal...

I worry that the language we use is so overloaded that it’s easy to get confused. I’ve been working with one group who is “graduating” some code and committers out of their Incubator Project. Naturally, they feel that they need to do a Graduation Review. Except that Graduation Reviews are...

Open source has come a long way over the last number of years. Apache Software Foundation celebrated their 10th anniversary. Lots of open source companies have figured out how to make money off open source software. Large companies have also figured out how to leverage open source software. The question...

It started as a bit of a weekend distraction, but turned into something a little more. I’ve always thought that the Eclipse Projects Gateway page isn’t quite living up to its potential. It seems to me that our user and adopter community should be able to use this page to...

In January we started a process to determine if we should update the existing Eclipse logo. As I have said before, the existing logo is great but it was created 8-9 years ago and maybe deserves an update or modernization. The response to a call for new concepts has been...

Millions of individual and thousands of organizations are part of the Eclipse community as users, contributors, committers, adopters, researchers, students, etc, etc. Unfortunately, the majority of the Eclipse community is passive. One thing we are trying to do is make it easier for more people and companies to actively participate...

Jeff Norris from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab is one of the keynotes at EclipseCon 2010. Jeff is a great speaker and typically has lots of really cool videos of robots in his talk, so I am expecting his keynote to be a highlight of the conference. Jeff is also...

Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk has written extensively on the rising importance of data, especially large amounts of data, in the IT industry. Stephen is usually right about these types of trends so I have started to look how this might impact the Eclipse community. Predictably, we are seeing some early...

Wow, we have received over 200 concepts for a new Eclipse logo. Some I really like, some are just ugly. Now we need to start narrowing the choices so we can make a decision. We are going to do two rounds of community voting to determine if it makes sense...

The IDE for Education (ide4edu) project has made some progress over these last few months with the help of some undergraduate students. Most of the effort has been around making Eclipse just a little easier to use during those first few months of learning. For the first time user, the...