Dilip Thomas the organizer of Eclipse Forum India is ramping up the promotion campaign for the conference. They are doing some billboard and truck advertising in Bangalore and the headline acts include Mik Kersten and Ralph Mueller. Mik and Ralph will be famous before they arrive. Of course there are...
I actually had somebody say this to me: “I can’t use a distro of Eclipse. My boss demands that we only use ‘official’ software from the eclipse.org site. By the way, does it work on Debian Linux?” The blogging recently about including Subversion support in the Eclipse SDK made me...
This year at JavaOne there is a .org Pavilion for open source projects. Simon Phipps has blogged about the details. It would be great to see some Eclipse based products exhibiting in this Pavilion. I understand that the space is filling up fast, so if you are interested, I would...
I blogged before about Higgins, but I recently got an announcement from Lynn about an upcoming webinar and thought that I would pass it along. The Higgins Trust Framework Project: A New Way to Manage Identity Thursday, April 25, 2007 at 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 15:00 UTC/GMT Convert...
I’ve been pretty quiet lately for a couple of reasons. I’ve been spending a great deal of time over the last two weeks preparing for Eclipse Forum Europe ( EFE) this week. I arrived in Germany a little earlier today; with my presentations pretty much good-to-go and all domestic responsibilities...
We are organizing an Eclipse party at JavaOne, Wednesday, May 9, 7-10pm. This year we are holding the party at Jillians, near the Moscone. Last year, the party was a lot of fun, so I am looking forward to seeing everyone again. If you are interested in attending, please send...
Once again the Eclipse Foundation will have a booth at JavaOne. As an exhibitor we get a number of ‘free’ pavilion passes that allow you access to the exhibit area but not the sessions. If you would like one of these passes, please send an e-mail to Lynn Gayowski (lynn...
Simon Phipps, Sun’s Open Source Go-To- Guy, was kind enough to respond to my blog post about Sun’s lack of response to the Apache Harmony open letter to Sun regarding their licensing of the JCK. Since his response was buried in the comments of my original post, I thought it...
If you are making plans to attend JavaOne, you might consider attending the Redmonk Unconference on Monday, May 7. James, Stephen and Cote, the Redmonk analyst, are pretty cools guys, with lots of opinions and insight, so it should be a good time. I plan on attending and I look...
I am intrigued by Sun’s response, or lack of, to Apache Software Foundation letter regarding the licensing of the JCK. For those that haven’t read the letter, it seems Sun is trying to impose license restrictions, via the JCK license, on Apache that would limit Harmony’s ‘field of use’. According...