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The Eclipse Europa Reviews Contest results are in. I know that we promised three winners, but we decided in the end that there needed to be four. There were so many submissions in many different languages; it was hard to narrow the selection down to just four. I blogged previously...

I’ve been doing a little work on a problem that we’ve been having with our WordPress implementation at blogs.eclipse.org. The problem is that file uploads don’t work. That is, you currently can’t upload useful things like pictures to make your blog entries all pretty and stuff. I finally managed to...

This may seem a little odd to folks in the know, but I look forward to receiving mail from IPZilla, the system that Eclipse developers use to submit code for IP review by the Eclipse Foundation. Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of notifications about contribution questionnaires (CQ) submitted for...

The vacation officially starts tomorrow. My family and I are driving to eastern Canada to spend two weeks of playing on the beaches and sand of Nova Scotia and PEI. Be back August 20th.

I’ve spent a good chunk of the past few days reviewing the reviews. Ian has blogged several times about our little competition to award Europa reviewers with some Eclipse SWAG and a conference pass (for one lucky winner). I thought that I’d spend a few minutes discussing my selection process...

Thanks to Darrin for the pointer to Steve Yegge’s excellent OSCON presentation on marketing and branding. A video recording of the presentation is online. There are three points from Steve’s presentation that I think are important to consider: 1) Branding is important and software people need to think about it...

For the third year, we are holding the Eclipse marketing symposium on Sept. 19 in Chicago; this is the day before the Eclipse Foundation Members’ Meeting. The idea behind the symposium is to provide a venue for the marketing and biz dev professionals an opportunity to share and learn the...

As reported on ZDNet, ‘ EMC woos Eclipse developers with cash prizes‘. EMC just announced their new Eclipse based tools. At the same time they announced a contest with a top prize of $100,000. Welcome EMC to the Eclipse community. Feel free to woo away.

We often get asked ‘How can I get training on Eclipse RCP?’ usually from developers or development managers that want to start a project using RCP. In fact, there are a number of companies in the Eclipse community that offer great Eclipse and specifically Eclipse RCP classes that are listed...

Before the launch of Europa, we started a contest to encourage the Eclipse community to write reviews about projects included in the Europa release. Anyone writing a review would receive an Eclipse shirt and the top 3 reviews would receive extra swag. So far over 50 reviews have been written...