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The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme has been a great vehicle for university outreach. For the 2008 running of GSoC, the Eclipse Foundation received student 127 applications from almost as many institutions. Most of the students submitting proposals were currently enrolled in undergraduate programmes, but many where pursuing graduate-level...

Glassfish v3 Prelude was launched today. Check out the Aquarium site for all the links and details. Three things that I think are great to see: The Glassfish team seems to be very committed to OSGi. The key new feature in v3 seems to be the fact they support OSGi...

The 451 Group has published a new report titled ‘ Open Source is Not a Business Model’. It is one of the best surveys and analysis that detail how software companies have integrated open source into their product strategies. The survey analyzes the approaches of over 100 different ISVs ranging...

The month of November is Eclipse Demo Camp Season. We are running Demo Camps in 30 cities around the world. Last week, we had a great start in Karlsruhe Germany which was sold out with 75 people attending. Why not see if there is a Demo Camp near you and...

The EclipseCon 2009 submission system is now open and ready for your talk proposals. Be sure to get your talk proposal in before the November 24th deadline. Now… November 24th sounds like a long way off, but it’ll be here … Continue reading →

La milestone 3 de Galileo est sortie hier, et amène (comme d’habitude ?) plein de nouveautés très sympa, extraites du traditionnel “ New & Noteworthy” : Platform La sélection par bloc dans les éditeurs texte fait enfin son apparition (un bug était ouvert depuis… 2002 !), et c’est un grand...

As I have previously mentioned, this past week we hosted the fourth Eclipse Marketing Symposium at Eclipse World. I have posted the presentation slides from all of the speakers. To recap, the sessions included: Getting Developers to Listen – Matthew Schmidt from DZone/JavaLobby Actuate Case Study – Rich Guth from...

Lars Vogel is quickly becoming one of our most prolific contributors. His latest entry teaches the reader how to create that first bundle and gently introduces the terminology and technology around OSGi and Equinox. Send comments about the article directly to Lars (his email address is on the article).

I spent a couple of hours at CASCON 2008 today. The conference, brought to us by the good folks at IBM’s Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS). This conference brings together researchers from industry and university to learn from each other and share what they’ve been working on. I attended today...

[blip.tv ?posts_id=1418627&dest=-1] I’ve been watching too much cable news while at Eclipse World. The reporter instinct in me, sent me out to find what is new at Eclipse World. I spoke with a product manager from Electric Cloud about their new product release, Eric Clayberg about his upcoming new version...