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Yesterday, we had two $1500 contributions to the Friends of Eclipse program. The donations were anonymous but with a comment of: In the name of Boris Pruessmann for his original work on the P4Eclipse plug-in. and In the name of David Corbin for his original work on the P4Eclipse plug-in...

Each year we publish stats on the size of the release train and each year the release train gets bigger and bigger. I just spent some time on Ohloh, calculating the number of lines of code we plan to ship with Indigo. According to Ohloh that number is 45, 792,297...

Next week is the start of the Eclipse Indigo Democamps. We have 30 democamps in different cities so there is lots of opportunity for the Eclipse community to meet and discover the interesting things happening with Eclipse. It is great to see some new cities hosting democamps, like Montreal, Atlanta...

This is the last week to complete the Eclipse Community Survey. The deadline for participation is May 13, 2011. Please take the time to complete the survey and tell us what you are doing with Eclipse. As an added incentive, to thank those that participate, we will randomly select 5...

Yesterday Oracle announced they have proposed to make Hudson an Eclipse project. Given the past history of the Hudson/Jenkins controversy, this was pretty big news. There has been a fair bit of press coverage and reaction from the community. I’d recommend reading Mik Kersten’s blog post about Tasktop’s participation in...

The Indigo release train is a short 7 weeks away. Like last year, we are starting a new recruitment campaign for the Friends of Eclipse, called the Indigo 500. We want to recruit 500 Friends of Eclipse between May 1 and July 31. As a reminder, Friends of Eclipse are...

It is that time of year to start thinking about organizing an Eclipse DemoCamp. Each year we run a series of DemoCamps to highlight the June release train, so we are now getting ready for the Indigo DemoCamps. Organizing a DemoCamp is really simple: 1) Find a location that can...

Eclipse has a large community of developers working in all types of industries, using different languages and creating different types of applications and software. Once a year we try to get a snapshot of what these developers are doing and using with Eclipse. These snapshots allow us to understand the...

Each year we do a survey of the Eclipse community. The goal is to better understand of how people are using Eclipse and in what type of environment. This will be the fourth year we have run the survey so we also have an opportunity to track trends, like what...

For the Indigo release, our goal is to make it a LOT easier to install products using the Marketplace Client (MPC). One of the key new features in the MPC Indigo release will be support for drag and drop install. In the recent M6 release, you can test out this...