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Next Wednesday, October 15th at 12:30pm Eastern time I will be giving my first web talk via Eclipse Live. The talk is going to be “A Practitioners Guide to Ecosystem Development”. Consider it a peak into what we at the Eclipse Foundation think about how to build and foster ecosystems...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Konstantin Komissarchik to the Technology PMC. Konstantin brings with him a lot of experience from the Webtools project where is is Project lead for the very active WTP Common Tools project. He is also a committer on numerous projects, a frequent speaker...

A number of people in the Eclipse community have roots to Smalltalk; for instance I was the ENVY/Developer marketing guy at OTI. When people talk about the glory days of Smalltalk, some people can get all teary-eyed. I long for the days of ENVY config. maps. So when I read...

I’ve been tinkering on-and-off for a couple of years on some Eclipse-based presentation software. My primary motivation is my distrust of existing presentation software. Curiously, I get a new head of steam on the “project” every time PowerPoint or Open Office fries one of my documents. Last week was one...

There is a steady stream of interesting Eclipse related jobs on the eclipse.employment newsgroup. Take today, Diesel Games is looking for an RCP Developer. I gotta believe working for a games company must be a lot of fun. It seems Diesel Games is still developing their product but when it...

Google has put up their oldest index to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Kind of fun to see what the search term ‘eclipse’ brings up. Page 2 has the link to the old www.eclipse.org web site which was a soccer team. Of course now http://www.eclipse.org is at the top of page...

Developing a community around your project is hard work. But it’s worth it. I think that every open source project dreams of having a community… at least they should dream of it. A community does stuff for you. As you develop a community of users, you’ll get feedback. Feedback is...

I just noticed that September 26 is the early bird discount for Eclipse World, October 28-30 in reston VA. Eclipse World is always one of my favorite Eclipse events and I am looking forward to attending this year. I hope to see you there.

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According to this announcement, they are all building their next generation Java server technology on OSGi. If I am not mistaken, basically 95%+ of the Java server market is now based on OSGi. That is a pretty compelling statement on the importance of OSGi. Of course Equinox is a pretty...