Blog Posts

Earlier today, Bjorn announced his departure from the Eclipse Foundation. As Mike later noted, I am stepping into the role of Director, Committer Community. I’m really looking forward to the challenges presented by this great opportunity. I think that Bjorn and I share a lot of common goals. We both...

As you have probably read by now, this morning Bjorn announced his resignation from the Eclipse Foundation. I know I speak for everyone here at the Foundation and in the broader community that we wish him well wherever his path may take him. Bjorn has made enormous contributions to the...

I wrote this retrospective recently for a Board committee, and Doug Gaff gave me the excellent suggestion that I blog it. I am sure that it is of interest to many in the community. The following is a listing of the 2008 objectives set by the Board for the Foundation...

I am working on three projects that could use the assistance of a graphic artist or at least someone with Photoshop skills. If you are so inclined, all contributions are appreciated. 1. We need a graphic for the upcoming Galileo release. You can see what was done in previous years...

License proliferation has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past couple of years. I am happy to report that the Eclipse Foundation and IBM have collaborated to do our bit to help by superseding the Common Public License (CPL) with the Eclipse Public License (EPL)...

We are making plans to field a survey of the Eclipse community. The goal is to better understand how and what people are doing with Eclipse and open source in general. We plan to open the survey next week and hope to publish the results in early June. I would...

The big news today is Google’s announcement that Google App Engine will now support Java. At the same time Google made available an Eclipse plugin to make it easier to write Java applications for App Engine. This video provides a great demo of the Eclipse support. Having Java support on...

Each year we ask EclipseCon registrants some questions to better understand who is coming to EclipseCon. The questions are optional but we tend to get a good percentage of attendees responding. I am a bit late writing up the responses, but better late than never. For this interested, the 2008...

Bjorn’s latest blog post on “ Not A Product” has received some passionate responses. It is important that everyone understand that the opinions expressed in Bjorn’s post are his own. They are most definitely not the consensus position of either the Eclipse Foundation staff or of the Board. Bjorn has...

Last week at EclipseCon, the Eclipse Foundation hosted our very first Open Source Executive Strategy Summit. The goal was to bring together people to explore what open source strategies are working and what will work in the future. Approximately 60 people attended the day long Summit and the feedback we...