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I’m not a coffee drinker myself, but I do have to admit that I feel a little jealous every time Chris‘ Facebook status shows that he’s working at a local hot spot… Eclipse Bug Day is coming up, this February 27. It seems like a great opportunity to get out...

On January 30th, I spoke with Brian Fitzpatrick (PMC Lead, Architecture and Planning Councils Representative, Architecture Council Mentor, Project Lead, and Committer) from the Data Tools Project (DTP) about the Data Tools track at EclipseCon 2009. As has become tradition, we digressed frequently from the main focus of our conversation...

La première version, déjà prometteuse, d’Eclipse 4 a été livrée hier. Au programme, une démo mettant en œuvre les grands principes retenus dans le cadre de cette refonte architecturale qu’est e4, à savoir : Le “workbench” de cette démo modélisé de A à Z : les vues, les menus, les...

Chris Aniszczyk and Boris Bokowski are two committers that the Eclipse community recognises by their first names alone. Stories of their tireless contributions to Eclipse projects and the community are legendary. These guys are giants in the community. Their names will one day be rendered in flashing tubes of neon...

Last fall at Eclipse Summit Europe I was pleasantly surprised to talk to a number of companies that were formulating their open source strategy. They has questions about different strategies and were interested in talking to people who have experience working in open source. Near the same time, Matt Aslett...

Well, the nominations are up, and 2009 Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors election is shaping up to be the most interesting yet. There are six nominees for Committer Rep and nine nominees for Sustaining Member Rep, each competing for four available seats. My recollection is that is the largest number...

Last year’s Eclipse release (Ganymede) came with a new provisioning platform called p2. For years, Eclipse has been shipped along with a component called the “Update Manager”, which allowed users to easily update their Eclipse installations. Nevertheless, year after year, and especially when Eclipse 3.0 came out, it has become...

Bug 262232 asks if the CloudFree Server Platform project should change its name. I have to admit, that I’ve never been really comfortable with the name. The purpose of this project, “an open, dynamic and extensible platform for Equinox based server solutions”, does suggest that the project might play some...

If my math skills are up to scratch (and I’m pretty confident they are), we have 72 slots for “birds of a feather” (BoF) sessions at EclipseCon this year. Realistically, we’ll probably lose a few of those slots as we get closer to the big event. As I’ve mentioned in...

C’est aujourd’hui le dernier jour pour nommer des candidats pour les Eclipse Community Awards ! Si le travail de certains contributeurs ou committers vous a particulièrement impressionnés, si des membres de la communauté font selon vous un travail d’évangélisation et de promotion d’Eclipse qui mérite d’être cité, alors n’hésitez pas...