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...
A new version of the Marketplace Client (MPC) is now available the the Java IDE and RCP M7 packages. The client is looking really nice and I have high hopes it will be a big success for the Eclipse ecosystem. To prove how simple it is to install an Eclipse...
A good sign of a healthy ecosystem is the emergence of competing solutions. Eclipse has long provided tooling support for OSGi. Now it seems NetBeans and IntelliJ are ready to provide OSGi support. The upcoming NetBeans 6.9 release features support for OSGi, which James Gosling calls ‘ getting pretty sweet.’...
Matt Stine is proposing to create an OSGi on Rails. This is exactly the type of innovation and easy on ramp the OSGi community needs to embrace if OSGi is going to cross the chasm. Lets hope this idea gets the support it deserves.
Encouraging large enterprises to participate and contribute in open source projects is the next frontier for open source communities. There are lots of examples of companies being happy users of open source technology but sadly very few examples of companies contributing back to those same open source communities. This is...
Last week we launched the Eclipse Community Survey. This is the third time we have done a community survey and each year we learn something new. There are a number of reason I think it is important to do these type of surveys: 1) Any supplier needs to understand what...
Once again we are organizing a new series of DemoCamps for the Eclipse community. During the month of June we will be featuring the Helios DemoCamps to help celebrate the Helios release train. We already have 19 DemoCamps organized, 7 in Germany alone! I’d like to see even more organized...
Crossing the Chasm is one of the classic technology business books that describe how new technology is adopted (or not adopted) by the mainstream. The main thesis is that new technology is first adopted by technology innovators and visionaries but for it to be adopted by the pragmatist in the...