Today at EclipseCon we announced OrionHub, a hosted implementation of the new Orion tools platform. We want OrionHub to be the place where developers can experiment and discover the features of Orion, without requiring someone to download and install Orion on your own machine. Right now, the service is a...
Ahem. Long time no talk on this blog… sorry about that I have been spending the last few months working on the definition of what would be the requirement of an Open Source M2M development environment, which has led to the Koneki project proposal. You may have not seen the...
I, for one, welcome our new PMC overlords. I am very pleased to announce a change in the Technology Project Management Committee (PMC). My friend, Gunnar Wagenknecht–a well known figure in the Eclipse community–has relieved me of my duties as the Technology PMC Lead (I will stay on as a...
The Orion developer team is making great progress on implementing the vision of Orion. They have just announced the latest M6 release, check out the new and noteworthy. One thing you will notice is the shiny new Orion logo. Yiying Lu, creator of the famous Twitter ‘ Fail Whale’ graphic...
Tomorrow, March 4 we are hosting a webinar on Orion. Boris Bokowski will be presenting and demoing Orion. If you want to better understand the vision and status of Orion, then I would encourage you to register and attend. Next week we will also be featuring webinars on Jubula and...
Yesterday we announce the finalist for the Eclipse Community Awards. I’d like to congratulate all of the individuals, projects and companies that were named as finalist. I have a particular bias towards the individual award category. The people that have been named as finalist represent what makes Eclipse a great...
Friday, February 25 is the deadline to vote for the E clipse Community Awards. Each year, a lot of people do tremendous things for the Eclipse community. The nominees this year represent some of the people who have made a real difference during the past year. Show your support and...
Voting begins today for the 2011 Eclipse Foundation Board of Director elections. We have a great slate of candidates, each of whom brings a great deal of knowledge and experience with the Eclipse community to the table. I highly encourage everyone to get involved with this process and vote! I...
I’m at it again. I’ve made myself the project lead for yet another project and have nominated myself as a committer. This time, my target is Dash (you may recall that my last step toward world domination involved the Dashboard subproject). Slowly… bit by bit… I am taking over… The...
As many of you are already aware, we started a new Friends of Eclipse Disbursements programme this year through which we are making funds gathered through “ Friends of Eclipse” available to the community. Chris blogged about this in January. To get access to these funds, you need to open...