Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC) is the place people go to find stuff in the Eclipse ecosystem. It has over 1100 products listed and 60 service and training providers; gets about 140K+ unique visitors a month and generates about 150-200K click thrus to the sites of the listed products. EPIC is...
The Government of Canada has issued an RFI for information about No Charge Licensed Software; for some reason they needed to create a new term for open source software. Since I am a Canadian, live in Ottawa and am very involved in OSS, I have been preparing a response to...
The Eclipse Banking Day in London last week was a great success. When we first started to plan for this event I did not know what type of response to expect. Based on the results of the event, I can definitely say Eclipse is very popular with the banks in...
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...