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Another EclipseCon has come to an end. EclipseCon is always fun, busy, exciting, exhausting and leaves me in awe of how great the people are in the Eclipse community. Here are some of my highlights from the week. Launch of Orion and OrionHub This was the big launch for Orion...

Today at EclipseCon we announced OrionHub, a hosted implementation of the new Orion tools platform. We want OrionHub to be the place where developers can experiment and discover the features of Orion, without requiring someone to download and install Orion on your own machine. Right now, the service is a...

Ahem. Long time no talk on this blog… sorry about that I have been spending the last few months working on the definition of what would be the requirement of an Open Source M2M development environment, which has led to the Koneki project proposal. You may have not seen the...

The Orion developer team is making great progress on implementing the vision of Orion. They have just announced the latest M6 release, check out the new and noteworthy. One thing you will notice is the shiny new Orion logo. Yiying Lu, creator of the famous Twitter ‘ Fail Whale’ graphic...

Tomorrow, March 4 we are hosting a webinar on Orion. Boris Bokowski will be presenting and demoing Orion. If you want to better understand the vision and status of Orion, then I would encourage you to register and attend. Next week we will also be featuring webinars on Jubula and...

Yesterday we announce the finalist for the Eclipse Community Awards. I’d like to congratulate all of the individuals, projects and companies that were named as finalist. I have a particular bias towards the individual award category. The people that have been named as finalist represent what makes Eclipse a great...

Friday, February 25 is the deadline to vote for the E clipse Community Awards. Each year, a lot of people do tremendous things for the Eclipse community. The nominees this year represent some of the people who have made a real difference during the past year. Show your support and...

Today, Nuxeo announced they would like to start a new open source project at the Eclipse Foundation, based on their existing Nuxeo Core technology. We always like getting new and interesting project proposals but I think this one is important for two reasons: 1) Foundation for innovation. As Matt Aslett...

I am sad to announce that this will be Lynn Gayowsk’s last week with the Eclipse Foundation. Lynn has decided to accept a new position with Klocwork, a software company here in Ottawa. As many of you know, Lynn has been a fantastic part of the Eclipse Foundation and the...

Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC) is becoming a popular way to install new plugins into Eclipse. There are 265 solutions available from MPC, so a great selection is developing. I recently blogged the top 10 solutions on Eclipse Marketplace but I thought it would be interesting to discover what are the...