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Things are looking great for next week at EclipseCon. Most of my time has been focused on the press outreach but this year I am also moderator two panels. On the press side, we have finished the pre-briefs of the editors and I look forward to seeing some great stories...

I’ll be arriving at EclipseCon on Sunday and will be there all week. While I’m there, I’d like to talk to you. Yes you. And you. You also. To make it as easy as possible, here are some topics we can discuss: The Eclipse Examples Project (which successfully passed its...

Sam Ramji from MS is a keynote speaker at EclipseCon. Today at the MS MIX conference he let slip that MS was going to be making some announcements at EclipseCon about working with Eclipse. Microsoft seems to be making some visible moves about working with the open source community. This...

Nice to see a new book about BIRT just got released. Congrats to John Ward the book author.

David Kyle from Kelman Technologies has posted on Eclipse Zone a great case study about the work he is doing with Eclipse RCP to solve some challenging problems in the oil and gas industry. It is well worth the read. I wished more people would showcase their Eclipse work. This...

The Usage Data Collector ( UDC) is now part of the milestone 5 builds of the Ganymede packages produced by the Eclipse Packaging Project ( EPP). It seems that about 10% of those who have downloaded Ganymede M5 packages are participating in our usage data gathering exercise (1.2 million usage...

Le projet Babel avance à grands pas ! Avant-hier, gros boost du côté du nombre de traductions disponibles, puisque Denis Roy a fait tourner un script qui a permis de réimporter l’ensemble des traductions déjà effectuées par IBM pour la version 3.2 d’Eclipse. Au total, cela fait plus de 20.000...

We have announced the finalists of the Eclipse Community Awards. Congratulations to everyone. The winners will be announced Monday evening at EclipseCon. Individual Finalists Top Ambassador: Jeff McAffer and Ed Merks Top Committer: Chris Aniszczyk, Mik Kersten and Paul Webster Top Contributor: Jacek Pospychala and Remy Chi Jian Suen Top...

Le 21 février sortait la version 1.0 du framework Higgins. Longtemps attendue (la revue de création du projet –qui s’appelait alors ETF, Eclipse Trust Framework– a été faite en… avril 2005 !), cette plateforme de gestion de l’identité numérique voit donc enfin le jour ! L’objectif d’Higgins est de faciliter...

Mathew Aslett from 451 Group and Tim Bowden are making the case that selecting an open source license influences the commercial success of an open source proejct. From Tim’s blog: ‘When it comes to takeovers and valuations, I think the role of GPL as a strategic weapon is often under...