Blog Posts

Last week at the Open World Forum, I had the pleasure of attending Michael Tiemann’s talk on the “Road to the Digital Recovery”. Michael kindly summarized his key points on his blog. The most interesting sound bite from Michael’s talk was his estimate that $1 trillion is wasted every year...

I believe that to grow any community you need to have vibrant online collaborations and periodic face-to-face meetings. The face-to-face meetings are how you develop and cement relationships. This is why I believe the Eclipse Days and the Eclipse DemoCamps are such an important part of growing the Eclipse community...

I just received an email out of the blue that really reminded me of how important it is for all of us in the Eclipse community to help our users and adopters. I just wanted to express my appreciation for the help Scott and the ECF team have been providing...

Remy Suen’s “ How to Fix a Bug in Eclipse” article is now available on eclipse.org/resources. In this article, Remy discusses various tips and techniques for getting involved with an Eclipse project and providing a patch. I discussed this article a few posts back. In that post, I discussed some...

I am very pleased to announce the Eclipse Foundation will be hosting two EclipseRT Days in Austin and Toronto on November 17 and 19 respectively. What is EclipseRT you ask? EclipseRT is the name we are using to identify the Eclipse projects that are focused on delivering runtime frameworks and...

I was asked earlier today if I could describe “ …the Eclipse community and its differences between other traditional commercial open source communities say like Sugar’s and non, or less pure commercial communities like Apache.” Darn good question. Off the top of my head here are a couple of key...

I am encouraged by the number of Eclipse project plans that have been updated over the last few weeks. I’m very positive that we will have most of them set in time for the approaching a September 30 deadline. I have spoken with about a dozen project leads directly to...

Like EclipseCon, we are encouraging the use of twitter at Eclipse Summit Europe. We have launched the ESE Birds Nest to highlight the speakers, exhibitors and conference attendees that are on twitter. There are a number of things you can do to follow ESE on twitter. 1. Join the ESE...

I’ve been working on a new version of the IP Log tool. This version leverages some pretty cool Eclipse technology. The first thing you see when you use the tool is the wizard. The wizard can populate a new IP Log with information gathered from the various Eclipse Foundation databases...

No. That’s not it. If you plan to fail, you fail to plan. Nope. What was it my SCUBA diving instructor said? Oh yes… if you fail to plan you plan to fail. Good planning is an important part of every Eclipse project. A project plan sets the direction of...