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Kim tells me that she added a little something special to today’s Eclipse integration build. The splash screen features none other than SWT’s own Steve Northover posing with the nice models that NetBeans is sponsoring for the week (or the last couple of days anyway). See for yourself… it’s in...

A number of people have asked me how the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards were selected. The Individual awards were voted on by the community. The Technology awards were selected by a panel of judges. The judges used three criteria for selected the winners were: Usability and intuitiveness of...

Last year for the Eclipse Community Project Spot Light panel, we collected questions from the community to ask the PMC leaders. If you would like to provide us with a question, please do one of the following: Add it as a comment to the talk. Send me an email at...

So here are my personal EclipseCon 2006 highlights so far: The Sun team promoting NetBeans out front. Hilarious! I’m proud to say that I’ve got my full allotment of NetBeans kit: one CD and one bottle of water. Joel Spolsky’s keynote. It’s been a long time since I’ve laughed as...

Congratulations to the winners of the Eclipse Awards. The winners were announced during a reception this evening at EclipseCon. I hope someone else will post some pictures of the event. The winners are: Top Ambassador: Ed Burnette Top Contributor: Linda Watson Top Committer: Alain Magloire Best Open Source RCP Application...

I suggested earlier that I hadn’t yet seen any girls with love in their eyes or flowers in their hair. It turns out, I just missed ’em (okay, so there were no flowers and more of a vacuous look, but I’ll take it).

The BoF sign up board has arrived and is in the Registration area. If you’d like to host a BoF, there are forms attached to the board for you to fill out (you only need to fill out the front of the form, the back is just the result of...

I’ve been in California for almost a whole day now, and I have yet to see a girl with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair… I spent my morning today dropping into the various tutorials to see how folks were doing and helping out where I could...

The news from EclipseCon is starting to come out here and here. We are planning to issue the Foundation press releases Tuesday morning, focusing on RCP, ALM and the PHP IDE. I also expect to see 15-20 press releases from companies announcing Eclipse related news; so expect to see lots...

I’m getting read to fly out to Santa Clara on Sunday for EclipseCon 2006. This will actually be my first EclipseCon. I never did get a chance to attend in my previous job, but now that I’m the Eclipse Evangelist, attending comes as part of the job. I’ve attended dozens...