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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!

Last week we held Eclipse Day events in New York, Austin and two in Toronto. Unlike some previous Eclipse Days that were focused on a vertical, these events were focused on a technology, specifically Modeling and EclipseRT. Most of the presentations have now been posted on the event web sites...

Having a up-to-date (and correct) IP Log is important for projects and we’re trying to provide as much help as we can to make sure that they’re in order. I’ve been working with a couple of projects to help them get their IP Logs in order. In the process, I’ve...

Each year at EclipseCon we announce the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. The last 4 years we have recognized worthy individuals and products for their contribution to the Eclipse community. This year I’d like to take a fresh look at the Eclipse awards and see if we can/should revamp...

Microsoft announced today they have purchased the Teamprise technology from SourceGear, products that allow Eclipse developers to connect to the MS Team Foundation Server (TFS). The Teamprise clients will be bundle into Visual Studio 2010, which appears to be set for launch in March 2010. If I am not mistaken...

One of the things that I quite like about my new job at the Eclipse Foundation is the feeling that I can make a difference in the lives of committers, adopters, users, and the broader community. Actually… check that. It’s not me that’s making the difference. Individuals and project teams...