In the process of collecting stats for the Europa release I was referred to a really cool web site called Ohloh.net. It essentially collects stats on open source projects. Most of the 21 projects in Europa, last count 16 of the 21, are listed on Ohloh so I built a...
Thanks to everyone that has linked to the Europa graphic. It is helpful to getting the word out. People seem to like the Eclipse shirts, so I thought it might be a good idea to give people another opportunity to win a shirt. Hence, part 2 of requesting your help...
Via this blog, it is nice to see the local Eclipse community in Poland putting on an Eclipse Summer School. I am noticing more and more of these type of locally run Eclipse events. Nice to see.
I spent the last (you might say ‘better’) part of my day yesterday hanging out with some of my old friends at Oracle, trying to help them get their new Eclipse project up and running. The Eclipse Persistence Services project, which is affectionately known as “EclipseLink” is inheriting some awesome...
As announced by Mik and others, the Eclipse Mylar project is changing its name to Mylyn. This is the end result of quite a bit of discussion and hard work on the part of Mik, the Myl** team, the webmaster team and the legal folks at Eclipse. As described in...
I am pleased to announce a new open source conference for the Eclipse community, called OS Summit Asia. The conference is scheduled for Nov. 26-30 and will be located in Hong Kong. The really exciting thing for me is that this conference is being organized as a collaboration between the...
This is just a very cool announcement. IBM has contributed their STEM technology to the Eclipse OHF project. STEM has been developed on top of Eclipse and helps model the spread of infectious diseases. Granted not everyone needs to track infectious diseases but a goal of contributing it to open...
Yesterday, Ian posted an entry in his blog asking for community help to test a new downloads page that we’d like to realize for the Europa release. On this page are several new distributions of Eclipse. I’ve been testing various version of these packages for a while, and—for a first...
Something we would like to accomplish during the Europa release is to make it easier for our user community to download Eclipse. The existing download model requires you to start with the SDK and then start adding projects and features. However, for the millions of Eclipse users the SDK is...
Microsoft is hosting the TechEd conference this week. One of the announcements to come out is a new version of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio Shell. Reading some of the coverage, it sounds a lot like Eclipse. In fact, Peter Varholl of Remond Magazine points out that imitation is the...