A challenge that we revisit with some frequency is the Eclipse Elevator Pitch: How do you explain Eclipse in fifteen seconds? Ultimately, I’m not sure it’s possible. Pretty much every time I speak to a group, I spend time talking about Eclipse with a deck of slides that are aptly...
We are pleased to announce the Eclipse Day at the Googleplex, being held on August 26 at the Googleplex in Mountain View CA. Each year we put together an agenda the includes Eclipse and Google related topics. This year we are featuring talks about Android, Helios, GWT, EGit, Linux Tools...
Here are some interesting numbers about Helios. At least I think they’re interesting. 39 Projects are listed on the Helios Participating Projects wiki page (many entries in this table include one or more subprojects); 54 sets of documentation were sent to the EMO for the release review (culminating in a...
Each year the Eclipse community delivers a lot of great new technology as part of the annual release. Each year we get great reviews from the community about what they find cool and interesting in the release. For instance, Ian Bull did a great top 10 list for Galileo. The...
The results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2010 are now available. Thank you to everyone, all 1696 people, that took the time to give us your feedback. A challenge for lots of open source communities is understanding the dynamics in the community, so these results provide a useful data point...
The response of our Friends of Helios campaign has been simply outstanding!! Since we launched the campaign 171 people have joined as a Friend of Eclipse. Thank you, thank you, thank you! We just need 189 more people to join by the end of July to hit our goal of...
Ian and I represented Eclipse in the Google I/O Sandbox. We used the Open Social support being developed in the E4 project as our hook. I estimate that less than 50% of the folks who dropped by the booth were familiar with Open Social. A lot of folks just dropped...
Back in December, I discussed a number of initiatives that the Eclipse Foundation was going to be working on in 2010. The one that attracted the most feedback was “Eclipse Labs”. Well, we are very happy to announce that thanks to Google, this idea has become a reality. Better yet...
This Friday, May 14 is the deadline for people to participate in the Eclipse Community Survey. If you haven’t already participated, I would be grateful if you would spend 5-10 minutes completing the survey. Like last year, we use the feedback to publish some interesting insights and perspectives on the...
Friends of Eclipse is a successful program to allow individuals in the greater Eclipse community to contribute back to Eclipse. Not everyone has the time or the ability to contribute code, write documentation, write tutorials or even open bugs but lots of people have been happy to contribute $35 to...