Blog Posts

    Eclipse is… an IDE Platform

    by Wayne Beaton

    If you’ve just joined me mid-arc, you should probably take a step back and acquaint yourself with what I’m doing here with this little series of posts. I’ll wait… Basically, I’m going through a slide deck that I present regularly as a means of level-setting an audience. Most people seem...

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    Eclipse is… a Java IDE

    by Wayne Beaton

    On Monday, I started a blog arc that will discuss the “ What is Eclipse” talk that I present on occasion. I have delivered this material both standalone and as a context-setting part of a presentation. I’m actually revisiting and revising that presentation as I go through this blogging exercise...

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    Eclipse is…

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Eclipse Day at the Googleplex 2010 Edition

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Helios By the Numbers

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Helios is Coming, Tell Us What You Think

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Trends from the Eclipse Community Survey

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Welcome to 171 New Friends of Eclipse

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Eclipse at Google I/O

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Introducing Eclipse Labs

    by Mike Milinkovich

    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...

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