Blog Posts

We launched the Eclipse Community Survey to collect feedback on how people are using open source software and Eclipse. We plan to publish the results in June. It takes about 5 minutes to complete, so I hope you will give us your feedback. Deadline for responding is May 15, 2009.

In Canada, camping season traditionally begins the third weekend in May, known locally as the May two-four weekend. In the Eclipse community, we are getting ready for a new season of Eclipse DemoCamps starting May 18-June 26. We have DemoCamps organized in 27 cities around the world, including for the...

This year we had the opportunity to record some of the sessions at EclipseCon. Over the next month we will be rolling them out 20-30 recordings on Eclipse Live. Below are links to the first 6. Enjoy. EclipseCon 09: Take the Fat Man Off your Application and it Will Run...

I don’t normally follow the RubyOnRails community but a current controversy in the RoR community caught my attention. The heart of the matter is a recent conference presentation, titled ‘CouchDB – Perform like a porn star’, that offended a number of the community members. More details can be found in...

Boy, am I on some kind of blog binge this week. It’s amazing how a few weeks without travel helps. Dana Blackenhorn wrote a piece earlier today discussing Matt Asay’s article on why the Apache license is better than the GPL. In his article, he states the following: If your...

We have been having a debate internally at the Eclipse Foundation whether we need to add the LGPLv2 to the list of licenses that Eclipse projects can use or pre-req. Despite what you may think, this is not an straightforward conversation. The most obvious question is why don’t we allow...

I’ve been thinking about posting on this topic for a while, and recent posts by Greg Stein and Eric Raymond have finally motivated me to get off my butt and git ‘er done. As I mentioned recently, the EPL is on a bit of a roll at the moment. And...

This year the OSGi Alliance is holding their OSGi Community Event on September 22-23, 2009 in Redwood City. The Eclipse Foundation is a member of the OSGi Alliance and I have been asked to act as the conference chair. Today we announced the Call for Papers for the event. The...

Last evening I was in Toronto for the “ Value of Open Source” panel at the University of Toronto’s School of Computer Science. The panel was one of a series being organized by the Free and Open Source Software Learning Center ( FOSSLC). The evening was almost more of a...

Doesn’t everyone want to be a rocket scientist? Here is your chance to use your Eclipse skills and work on the development of spacecraft operations software at NASA. Seems like a pretty cool job. The guys at NASA have been great supporters of Eclipse. You can find out more about...