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We are getting very close to the maximum number of people we can host at Eclipse Summit Europe. There are about 30 spots left, after which we will be full, sold-out. In previous years, we have had 70 plus people register the week before the conference. Unfortunately, this year if...

As a follow-up to my web analytic post, Mark Phippard from Collabnet and Subclipse fame, posted some data they have been collecting from Subclipse. If you don’t know Subclipse, it is the #1 download on the Eclipse Marketplace and a popular Eclipse plugin for Subversion. I am a data junkie...

Dear Oracle, I hate to tell you but you need some help with the Java community. The basic problem is that people don’t trust you and you aren’t very good at community building; in fact you are pretty bad at community marketing. I really really want you to succeed and...

This past week I spent some time looking at the web stats, via Google Analytics, for eclipse.org. There are some interesting trends that I thought people might like to see. The following is a comparison of the traffic to http://www.eclipse.org from Sept 20 2009-Oct 20, 2009 and Sept 20, 2010-Oct...

We launched Eclipse Labs this past May. The goal was to create a community for Eclipse open source projects that weren’t ‘official’ Eclipse Foundation projects. There is lots of interesting Eclipse related technology being created in open source but there was not an official home. Eclipse Labs was to be...

I am very excited to announce an upcoming event in Zurich, called the Eclipse Enterprise Modeling Day. The focus of this event is to share different users stories and compare best practices for enterprise modeling with Eclipse. Companies like UBS, Bosch, Nord/LB and RWE will present how they use Eclipse...

The first JavaOne, organized by Oracle is now finished. This was definitely a JavaOne very different from those of the past. In fact, I think it is symbolic of how Oracle will operate the Java community moving forward. Some observations from the new JavaOne. A Crappy Location JavaOne was held...

JavaOne is very different this year, especially the exhibit hall. It is much much smaller, in a not so nice hotel ballroom but there are some interesting new products being shown. Some companies and products that caught my eye: Particle Code is showing a mobile development environment that lets you...

Next week I will be attending JavaOne, the first organized by Oracle, and I am really looking forward to it. The last couple of JavaOne conferences were pretty lame in terms of key Java announcements. This year will be Oracle’s chance to set the vision for the future of Java...

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, has penned an interesting post about their involvement and contribution to the open source/free software community. He is responding to some criticism that Canonical is not giving enough back. Mark makes an excellent point that there are many ways to give back and...