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Last Friday the acceptance (and unfortunately the decline) letters were sent out to people who wanted to speak at EclipseCon. As you might expect there were lots of happy people but some people who were disappointed. We have close to 400 submissions for 120 speaking slots and 16 tutorials, so...

This week there were news items about browser market share, so it got me thinking about updating a blog post I did last year about the eclipse.org web stats. For this update, I am comparing the exact same 30 day period, Sept. 20-Oct. 20, 2011 with the same days in...

Last Friday, Sven Efftinge launched a new web site for the Xtend language. It is a great web site that clearly explains what is Xtend and why any developer should care. To announce the web site, Sven did a blog post and a tweet. What happened next was fun to...

Last week we hit one million successful installs of Eclipse solutions from Eclipse Marketplace Client. Unfortunately, it happened on the Friday of EclipseCon Europe so no one was able to capture a screenshot of the milestone. Luckily Nathan is pretty good with Photoshop. We launched the Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC)...

Last week at EclipseCon Europe, John Swainson gave a keynote address that reflected on IBM’s decision to start Eclipse as an open source project and consortium. During his speech, John identified 5 key things IBM thought they needed to be successful. These success factors are still relevant today for any...

This past week we made a number of announcements at EclipseCon Europe, including two new industry working groups. Below is a summary: 1. Eclipse Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation EclipseCon Europe kicked off a month of celebrating the Eclipse 10th birthday. We did a press release to highlight some of...

We are getting very close to 1 million successful installs on Eclipse Marketplace. Sometime later this week we should hit the 1 million mark. A pretty cool achievement for the Eclipse community! I’d like to have a screenshot showing the counter at exactly 1,000,000. If you by chance see the...

As I have written, Eclipse is celebrating 10 years of open source and community during the month of November. There have been a number of milestones that have shaped the Eclipse community but what have been the major accomplishments? What has Eclipse done to actually change the software industry? Here...

The new EclipseCon web site allows attendees to build their own schedule [1]. We can also mine this data to see what are the most popular sessions. Only 25 people have setup their own schedule but based on that data here are the top 10 most popular sessions. It will...

In just about 10 days, EclipseCon Europe and its storm of great keynotes, awesome talks, and yummy frosty beverage will be all upon its lucky participants. This year, two great programming contests will allow you to have fun doing what most of you do best: write code! In this post...