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    EclipseCon 2007 Programme Selection

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Birthday Thank You

    by Mike Milinkovich

    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...

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    I am Eclipse

    by Wayne Beaton

    Since Ian brought it up… Hey, I’m not a salesman, or a consultant…I’m not egotistical, or vain, or arrogant…and I don’t know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from HP,although I’m certain they’re really really nice. I have an Executive Director, not a CEO.I can develop using PHP, Ruby, and C/C++, not...

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    I am Eclipse Rant

    by Anonymous

    Steve’s recent post titled ‘ I am Eclipse‘ made me think about a famous Canadian advertising campaign titled ‘ I am Canadian‘; you probably need to be Canadian to really appreciate it. However, it makes me wonder if someone wants to do an ‘I am Eclipse’ rant?

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    Nominations Now Open for the Eclipse Awards

    by Anonymous

    The nominations are now open for the Eclipse Community Awards. Last year, the first year for these awards, the winners were announced at EclipseCon 2006 and they were a great success. This year we are going with the similar categories for individual and technology awards. The one new addition is...

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    Why does Eclipse Momentum Keep Going?

    by Anonymous

    Recently, there has been a indicators that Eclipse momentum continues to grow. Denis complaining that we continue to run out of bandwidth; Evans Data saying we are challenging Visual Studio and even the fact in October we had 800K download requests of the SDK. Given we already have dominate share...

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    Linux Journal Editors’ Choice 2006

    by Anonymous

    Linux Journal announced their Editors’ Choice 2006 and Eclipse won the award for Software Development Tool. Great to see Eclipse being recognized in this Journal and another great indication of Eclipse’s momentum in the Linux community. Congratulations to everyone!

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    Five Reasons to Love Mylar: Part Five

    by Wayne Beaton

    Mylar facilitates communication with other team members through the task repository. There’s a handy “Attach context” feature that appears on the task editor that lets you package up your task context and attach it to the task (bug) in the repository. The task context contains the information about the elements...

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