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Next week is our first-ever Eclipse Board of Directors meeting outside of the USA. Berlin is our destination, primarily based on the fact that it is a darn cool city. Although Ralph won’t be able to join us, we are going to carry on the tradition he has created and...

Today, three different Eclipse oriented jobs were posted on twitter. Not everyone is on twitter, so I thought I’d repeat them here. All three positions appear to be on the west coast, near San Francisco. I don’t have many details but if you are interested send me an e-mail or...

We are pleased to announce the second Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on August 27, 2009 at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Last year we had over 100 people attend this event, so I am very excited that Google has agreed to host another one. The agenda includes...

My JavaOne encounter has caused me to think a lot lately about developing community around open source projects. Here’s a good rule of thumb if you want to develop a community around you’re open source project: don’t call your potential future users “stupid”. Yes, I am making a mountain out...

JavaOne 2009 is winding down. This year the conference had a more somber feel. It was really hard to pick up any energy about a new trend or technology. The main question on people’s mind was ‘What is Oracle going to do?’. Of course no one has any idea what...

I had a bizarre experience at JavaOne yesterday. And I have witnesses. Lots of witnesses. We were approached at the Eclipse booth by a gentleman sporting a “FindBugs” t-shirt. Our conversation went something like this: The guy: Is there somebody here who works on the Eclipse project? Me: There are...

I just found this useful link which gathers ALL the Eclipse Ganymede icons, in one and easy to browse place. It also provides OpenOffice icons (needless to say they are way less cool! ). Also, for everyone looking for a way to automatically retrieve all these icons, the following script...

There’s a fundamental problem with the Automated IP Log Tool. Now, don’t get me wrong… there’s a lot of good stuff in there. And we’re going to keep on leveragin’ that good stuff as we move forward. But there’s a fundamental problem. For the uninitiated, the Automated IP Log Tool...

We have just published the results from the Eclipse community survey. The results are pretty insightful and opened my eyes to some things I didn’t know about the Eclipse community. A complete report, called the Open Source Developer Report, is available and the complete results are here. I thought it...

The Galileo Release is just four short weeks away; June 24 is the big day. Every year we put together a launch program to help promote the release, this year being no different. I thought it might be useful to summarize what we are planning. Feel free to let me...