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Denis pushes the Big Red Button It was smooth as silk this morning as our esteemed Webmaster Denis Roy pushed the “big red button” to unleash Galileo. He had his moment of trepidation, but so far everything has gone very smoothly. Thirty-three projects, 380 committers, 24MLOC+…this is a major software...

Project #6 in my series of 10 new projects joining the Galileo release train is the Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF). Kentarou Fukuda is a committer on ACTF. What does your project do? The Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project is working to provide an extensible and comprehensive framework for...

The Eclipse Management Organization (EMO) does a lot of reviews. We do a review when a new project is created. We do a review when a project wants to do a release. We do a move, continuation, termination reviews and more. For each of these reviews some form of documentation...

EclipseLink is project #5 in my series of projects new to the Galileo release train. For those that might not know, EclipseLink is based on the very popular TopLink product from Oracle. Doug Clarke is the EclipseLink project lead. What does your project do? EclipseLink provides high performance runtime persistence...

Hey students! Looking for something fun to do this summer? Do you want to be part of the coolest open source project ever? If you haven’t been accepted already, you’re a little late for Google Summer of Code. However, there are still lots of great opportunities to do open source...

As we enter into the final daze of Galileo, I thought it would be appropriate to thank the people who have answered the call to be Friends of Eclipse. Close to 80 people have join the Friends of Eclipse program since we made the call on May 21. Thank you...

Java Workflow Tooling (JWT), is next up in my series on projects new to the Galileo release train. Marc Dutoo is the project co-leader. What does your project do? Java Workflow Tooling brings open business process design and development to the Eclipse platform. Business Process Management (BPM) is at the...

The Galileo release is next Wednesday. We want to encourage everyone to help promote the Galileo release. Lots of people are already writing blogs about Galileo and we have over 500 people on the Galileo Birds Nest to promote Galileo on twitter. However, next Wednesday we want everyone on twitter...

A couple days ago, I came across this entry in the DLTK mailing list: We are using the Python component, but we are a small startup company and don’t have the resources to work on it ourselves. We would be interested in code completion for the Python component and debugging...

Tools for mobile Linux (TmL) is project #3 in my series of projects new to the Galileo release train. Eric Cloninger is the TmL project lead. What does your project do? The Tools for mobile Linux (TmL) project creates tools and frameworks for mobile application development. Who are your typical...