Earlier this week, while helping James prepare some words to include in this week’s EclipseZone newsletter on the Usage Data Collector (UDC), a thought occurred to me (which I included in the text): the information gathered by the UDC should help in testing. Think about the magnitude of the testing...
Les sessions de DemoCamps approchent à grand pas, et la déclinaison française se déroulera cette année à Toulouse ! “Ah super, mais un DemoCamp c’est quoi ?!?” me direz-vous… Et bien c’est un évènement, plutôt informel, permettant à chacun de présenter des projets basés sur Eclipse, d’échanger ses idées, ses...
Continuing from yesterday’s post on the Usage Data Collector, I thought we should also describe how we plan to use the UDC data. In the official, lawyer-approved Terms of Use, we have stipulated the following: The Eclipse Foundation may, in its sole discretion, make available to organizations and individuals, on...
The Ganymede release is less than three weeks away, so it is time to crank up the Ganymede hype marketing machine. As usual, we are trying a mix of community outreach, press and analyst outreach and promotion of the specific projects. Here are some of the key things: 1. We...
BZ Media does a great job organizing the annual Eclipse World conference. This year is is Oct. 28-30 in Reston, VA, same place as last year. They have just announced their technical program and it looks really strong. If you are building enterprise Java applications with Eclipse, there is a...
I’ve spent some time over the past few days reworking the Eclipse Evangelism site. Perhaps the first thing that you’ll notice is that I’ve simplified the look of the page. The second thing that you should notice is the list of “evangelism” resources. I’ve started cleaning up some of my...
One of our challenges at the Eclipse Foundation is understanding how and what people are using Eclipse. Millions of people come to our web site to download the various projects, find different Eclipse based plug-ins (open source and commercial) and use them to create amazing software. If we can gain...
Things seem to be heating up around the compatibility between OSGi and JSR 277, in particular the different version numbering schemes. Peter Kriens, Alex Blewitt provide some good commentary for the OSGi scheme and Stanley Ho defends the proposed JSR 277 scheme. However, Hal Hildebrand, the Oracle OSGi guru, provides...
The Ganymede RC2 Packages are now available for testing. Ganymede is a short 3 weeks away, so the clock is ticking on testing out these packages. Also, thank you for all the feedback we have received on the new packaging site. There is still time for more comments but that...
Next week I will be traveling to Germany for two events: 1) the OSGi community event in Berlin and 2) a Marketing Stammtisch in Bensheim/Auerbach. The OSGi event has a great technical program and I am looking forward to meeting a lot of the people in the OSGi community. OSGi...