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Ahti has done a very nice summary of the current nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards Individual awards. However, don’t forget you can also recognize your favourite Eclipse based product. Nominations are trickling in, last year 80% came in the last week, but we need a lot more. Feel free...

EclipseCon is my favourite show of the year. And that’s not just because I’m an employee of the Eclipse Foundation. Honestly. I’ve put together a recommended track; I’m not sure if I’ve done it in the right spirit, since I’ve just made a listing of the talks that I’m planning...

A new year means we need to order new Eclipse swag. Last year we ordered some shirts and fleeces to give out to people that make an extra effort to build the Eclipse community. We have almost run out so it is time to order more. I know people have...

In 2007, I am really excited that we are going to schedule at least two webinars a month. We had a lot of success with webinars in 2006 and I really believe it is a good way to educate people on Eclipse projects. A special thanks to Adobe for making...

The very cool thing about Eclipse and I think often under stated is that Eclipse has enabled an entire industry of domain specific IDE’s. Besides support for basically any language you can think of, there are also IDEs for specific technologies. Some recent examples that have come to my attention...

I’ve been playing on and off with the Graphical Modeling Framework ( GMF) for a few months. I am by no means an expert, but I’m coming along. Over the past week or so, I’ve been playing with the the 2.0M3 milestone build (I see that 2.0M4 is out today)...

In November, I wrote about some experiments I did with Eclipse running on Apache Harmony. At the time, I was concerned exclusively with how much of the Eclipse SDK I could get running on the Harmony JRE. Today it occurred to me to try some of my Eclipse RCP applications...

Happy New Year to Everyone! What better way to start the new year is to have an Eclipse cover story in the Embedded Systems Design. Thanks to Robert Day from LynuxWorks for writing the article. Eclipse continues to have great momentum in the embedded and mobile space and this is...

The EclipseCon programme selection process is an open and transparent process. It is. Really. It says so on the website: The selection is done in an open and transparent way using the Eclipse open source project rules. Specifically, all submission is done through a modified Bugzilla system (hereafter known as...

So one last (and somewhat belated) post related to the Eclipse 5th birthday celebrations. As many of you may already know, over the past month or so we tracked down the 65 or so people who were the original founders of both the Eclipse Project and the Eclipse Consortium and...