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Eric Rizzo received the Top Newcomer Evangelist award at EclipseCon 2008. In this podcast, Eric discusses his tireless work with the Eclipse newcomer newsgroup, getting help with Eclipse, and more. The link should also soon be available on Eclipse Live.

The Google Summer of Code timeline is posted in the GSoC FAQ. According to the timeline, students have until March 31 to submit their project proposals. Don’t delay, submit today!

I just posted a video podcast titled “ Creating an Equinox Service using Declarative Services“. This video podcast briefly describes Equinox services and goes through the steps required to create and run a service using the Equinox Declarative Services (in incubation at the time of recording). For the recording, I...

Each year I try to report on the demographics of the EclipseCon attendees; here are the 2007 and 2006 reports. We collect this information when people register for the conference. It is optional, so not everyone responded but we have about 1300 responses. Years of Experience with Eclipse Similar to...

We’ve received many wonderful applications; I’m really looking forward to this term’s GSoC. Students, you need to submit your proposals through the Google Summer of Code system. You can find it here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/. You will have to register with Google if you want them to pay you for your efforts...

Google has opened their Summer of Code 2008 application system up for students, so now is the time. The student application deadline is March 31 @ 5pm PDT. We have already received a bunch of applications and there’s some good stuff. There are also a lot of incomplete proposals. Students...

I’ve been trying to decide how to work with Equinox services in the user interface. I’ve started modifying the Organizer application that will soon be part of the Eclipse Examples Project (once it’s provisioned) to use Equinox services. I’ve got a view that updates its appearance based on available services...

If you missed EclipseCon or you want in-depth Eclipse RCP training, then consider registering for a 4-day RCP course in a city near you. If you register before March 31, you will receive a 10% discount on the regular price. Courses will be offered in 22 cities from May 19-June...

Equinox and OSGi were definitely the buzz of EclipseCon. Now it is great to see a new German book ‘ The OSGi Service Platform – An introduction with Eclipse Equinox‘ about to be published. There is a lot of interest in Germany about Equinox so this book should do very...

By far and away, my favourite quote from Cory Doctorow‘s talk at EclipseCon was: “Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard.” Those truly are words to live by. Remember that as I walk through some thoughts on Eclipse and our community’s strategy. Tony Baer, who writes OnStrategies has been an avid...