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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...

I have been on the road this past week, with stops in New York and Zurich on my way to the Open Source Meets Business ( english) conference in Nuremburg. OSMB is an interesting conference. I met a lot of interesting new folks and a few old friends that I...

A call for papers has been added to the Eclipse Forum India; deadline is February 6. All you EclipseCon speakers, here is an opportunity to reuse your content.