Blog Posts

We are running a new series of Eclipse DemoCamps in November. The DemoCamps have proven to be a very popular way for local Eclipse communities to meet and show-off cool Eclipse technology. For instance, as pointed out by Jacek, the Poles love their DemoCamps. Organizing a DemoCamp is pretty easy...

We have just announced a new Eclipse Training Series that will run November 3 to December 13. In the past we have just offered an Introduction to RCP but this time we have expanded the course topics to include an Advanced RCP course, Equinox course and Modeling course (EMF, GMF...

Eclipse is proving to be a great community and platform for organizations to collaborate on implementing standards. There are lots of example but today there happened to be two announcements that highlight this theme. CA and IBM have announced they will be demonstrating support and interoperability for the CMDB Federation...

Bjorn and guests have been blogging about the results of the recent committer satisfaction survey at Eclipse. I think that the survey itself embodied genius in its simplicity: one question on “…how happy are you with the Foundation’s support of you and your project?” As the Executive Director, I am...

I learned a little something about accessibility today while playing with the Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project’s Java Validation Componentry (Javaco). Actually, I learned a couple of things before I learned the interesting part. First, Javaco currently works on Windows. Try as I might, Linux just isn’t supported. Lesson learned...

Congratulations to Genuitec on their decision to become a strategic developer member with the Eclipse Foundation. Genuitec was an early, active and valuable participant in the Eclipse community and their product MyEclipse is very popular with Eclipse users. Therefore, it is great to see them become even more involved.

Dwight Deugo and I have been relatively quietly pounding away on a new “ Eclipse IDE for Education” component in the SOC project (though I did blog about this a few posts back). The idea is to try and reduce some of the complexity faced by first time users of...

Google has just announced that they are adding the Eclipse Public License (EPL) as a license option for Google Code. A special thank you to Chris DiBona and the entire Google Code team making this addition. Google is a good friend of Eclipse and we appreciate their ongoing support of...

As many people know OSGi is the standard that is implemented in Equinox and is at the heart of Eclipse. Therefore, I was pleased to see Eric Newcomer’s announcement that a new draft of the OSGi 4.2 specs are available for anyone to download. Lets hope the OSGi Alliance continues...

It’s official. I am the new PMC Lead for the Technology Project. It’s all about the power. All must kneel before Zod. Actually… it’s all about responsibility. That, and the power to crush your enemies. Can you tell that I’m of two minds? As a few of you are already...