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Earlier today, I spoke with Rich Gronback about the upcoming EclipseCon 2007 conference. Listen to the Podcast here. Richard is the Programme Committee Chair for EclipseCon 2007, PMC Lead for the Modeling Project, and Project Lead for the Graphical Modeling Framework ( GMF) Project.

In an interesting demonstration of the dangers of (what appears to be) auto-generating blog content, the site Modeling Agencies has picked up references to EclipseCon 2007. We do, of course, love to see viral marketing for EclipseCon and heartily encourage regular readers of this particular site to join us at...

My keynote last week at Open Souce Meets Business in Nuremburg was on a topic that I think bears repeating. Namely: what are the keys to Eclipse’s continuing growth and success? This is at the ten-thousand-foot-level I’m talking here, and definitely not with my technical hat on. This is about...

Yesterday, I sat down with Donald Smith to discuss the Business and Industry Tracks at EclipseCon 2007. Here’s an exerpt from our conversation: “EclipseCon has a reputation as being a hard-core developer conference, and there’s definitely a lot of developers there. But we have a lot of marketing folks, a...

I ran across a post by Joel West which I both agreed and disagreed with. He was commenting on a previous post by Matt Asay on the importance of community to any organization that wants to portray itself as truly open source. The obligation of a real open source company...

I’ve been looking over the recommended tracks for EclipseCon 2007. Based on what I know of folks like Chris and Alex, their recommended tracks are more-or-less exactly what I’d expect. There is some overlap between their recommendations and mine, so I’m sure to bump into them. Actually, I’m virtually guaranteed...

For reasons that even I don’t completely understand, I have always had a soft spot in my heart for the Higgins project. Perhaps it’s because I am a bit of a closet libertarian. I strongly believe that control over your identity is a human right of the first order. The...

Thanks to everyone that sent in a nomination for the Eclipse Community Awards. We received 63 nominations in total, and looking at the different nominees I think the judges will have a difficult time selecting one winner. Good luck to everyone and make sure you attend the award ceremonies at...

As many readers will know, I am a big fan of technical webinars. In fact, we are now on track to do at least 2 webinars a month. Over time I would also like to develop a database of podcasts and screencams/flash demos covering the different Eclipse projects. Right now...

There is a recent article titled Aperi stalled, dead even? It makes the point that Aperi is now available for download but who is going to use it? Actually a vendor, NetApps, who isn’t supportive of Aperi is asking the question. Gee, could this be some good old fashion PR...