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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...

I’ve just uploaded the slides of the two talks I gave at Eclipse Summit Europe last week on SlideShare. Feel free to contact me if you have questions! I enjoyed the event a lot (cool talks, cool food, cool people), and I already can’t wait for EclipseCon 2010! Use Eclipse...

Developers in Toronto have a great opportunity to participate in back-to-back Eclipse events: Eclipse Modeling and EclipseRT Day on November 18 & 19. Think of it as a mini-EclipseCon but with polite Canadians saying ‘eh’, ‘pop’ and ‘about’. Modeling and Eclipse runtime technology (including OSGi and Equinox) are two of...

This week the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is celebrating its 10th birthday at their ApacheCon conference. ASF has been a pioneer and leader in the open source community. When the Eclipse Foundation was first created, ASF was a source and inspiration for many of the Foundation’s principles (transparency, meritocracy) and...

Each year we ask the attendees of Eclipse Summit Europe some questions about themselves. It gives us some insight into who is actually attending the conference. Here are some of the results. 1. Where do people live? Not surprisingly, a lot of the ESE attendees are from Germany; in total...

Hearty congratulations are due to Microsoft, Soyatec and Tasktop for their announcements yesterday regarding Eclipse and Silverlight, Azure and Windows 7. It is great to see Microsoft providing support to the ecosystem to ensure Eclipse remains a great development environment for the Windows platform (which still represents almost 80% of...

The existing Automatic IP Log Tool and the new EMF-based one that I’m unveiling next week at Eclipse Summit Europe both make use of the iplog flag in Eclipse Bugzilla. After spending some quality time with the code that scours the various Eclipse Foundation databases to find contributions to a...

Openness and transparency are two of the more important principles at Eclipse and outward communication is an important part of both. It is through outward communication that we let the community know what’s going on. I recently sent out an email, for example, declaring to the community that the Doc2Model...