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We’ve had two new people start working at the Eclipse Foundation this week. First is Matt Ward, who in Denis’ words, has “…joined the ranks of co-webmaster/sysadmin/person_to_blame at the Foundation…. Matt comes to us with strong UNIX skills, a great attitude and an impressive beard.” I can definitely vouch for...

We are planning the next Eclipse Members’ Meeting on Sept. 21-22 in Chicago. Twice a year we host face to face meetings to update the Eclipse Foundation membership on the status of the Eclipse projects and the activities of the Eclipse Foundation. These meetings also provide a great venue for...

Just back from EclipseWorld in New York. I think BZ Media did a great job putting together the first Eclipse-specific conference in North America other than EclipseCon. (In Europe, iX has been running for two years.) The program was interesting and the turnout exceeded their expectations. For me, a big...

I just got back from Eclipse World in NYC. This was the first year for Eclipse World and it seemed people very please with the results. They had a strong program and all of the sessions were well attended. Some of the highlights from the session I attended were: John...

I think that Gunnar’s posting results from a misunderstanding of the word “branch”. This may be the result of a poor translation in the German article. But I can’t read German so I can’t tell the source of confusion for sure. Eclipse is not being split up. “Branch” in the...

I could not have said it better myself. RCP rules!

Here is a great write-up on Eclipse RCP from Eric Barroca of Nuxeo. I must admit it if the first time I’ve heard RCP described as being sexy. I am sure lots of people would agree that Eclipse RCP is pretty hot. Sounds like the guys at Nuxeo are doing...

I am off to New York City to attend Eclipse World. Congratulations to BZ Media for putting on what looks like a very strong program. If you attending, drop me an e-mail (ian dot eclipse.org). I’d love to share a beer or two with some Eclipse users.

Ed Burnette of EclipseZone has posted an interesting interview with the leaders of the eRCP project. This project just released their first release candidate of eSWT. If you want a good overview of this project and the future directions, it is definitely worth the read.

We are planning to issue a press release next Monday announcing the new CDT 3.0 release. Btw, the download is already available. The CDT team has done a ton of work on the parser and build system, making it a lot easier to integrate into other products. Congratulations to the...