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I have scheduled a supplementary review for two projects that we missed on June 10th. The PHP Development Tools (PDT) and EMFT Mint projects will hold release reviews on June 17th, 2009 at 1500 UTC. When I say “hold release reviews”, I really mean that in the time leading up...

Eclipse RCP continues to be used for some very interesting applications. Yesterday I came across two organizations that were building electronic medical record (EMR) systems on top of RCP. 1) Elexis is an open source project in Switzerland that provides An Eclipse RCP program for all aspects of a medical...

The intent of this project is to extend the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to embedded devices. eRCP is largely a set of components which are subsets of RCP components. It basically enables the same application model used on desktop machines to be used on devices. New features in this...

The Call for Papers for Eclipse Summit Europe is now open. This year the program committee is organized in 5 categories: Runtime, IDE, Embedded, Modeling, and Other/New & Noteworthy. Deadline for submission is August 18, 2009. However, the smart presenter will get their proposals in early. btw, ESE is once...

Today we held the big review call for projects included in the Galileo release. One of the interesting things that came out in the call is that the number of project reviews appears at odds with the number of projects listed in the Projects section on the Galileo Simultaneous Release...

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...