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Encouraging large enterprises to participate and contribute in open source projects is the next frontier for open source communities. There are lots of examples of companies being happy users of open source technology but sadly very few examples of companies contributing back to those same open source communities. This is...

Last week we launched the Eclipse Community Survey. This is the third time we have done a community survey and each year we learn something new. There are a number of reason I think it is important to do these type of surveys: 1) Any supplier needs to understand what...

Once again we are organizing a new series of DemoCamps for the Eclipse community. During the month of June we will be featuring the Helios DemoCamps to help celebrate the Helios release train. We already have 19 DemoCamps organized, 7 in Germany alone! I’d like to see even more organized...

Crossing the Chasm is one of the classic technology business books that describe how new technology is adopted (or not adopted) by the mainstream. The main thesis is that new technology is first adopted by technology innovators and visionaries but for it to be adopted by the pragmatist in the...

As I have mentioned, we did a beta release of the Marketplace (MPC) client as part of the Java IDE and RCP Helios M6 packages. A critical part of the project is the user interface design for MPC. We want to make sure it kicks ass. Therefore, we are going...

Last year we published the results of our Eclipse Community Survey. It provides an interesting snapshot into how developers use Eclipse and the wider software development community. However, with all survey data the really interesting information is in the trends that begin to appear over a period of time. Therefore...

I have never liked the term ‘Open Source Company”. It is an attempt by a few to hijack the open source label for essentially marketing and maybe financing (venture capitalist) purposes. Let me be clear, I have no problem with companies actively participating and promoting open source as part of...

In my last post on EclispeCon 2010 Demographics, someone asked for a breakout by region. I took a quick look at the data and created some charts. In summary: – No surprise that 57% of attendees come from the US,Canada was the next largest at almost 9%, followed by Germany...

Each year when people register for EclipseCon we ask a small number of questions to better understand who is attending. As is the tradition, I publish the data so everyone can get a feel for who was at EclipseCon. For EclipseCon 2010, the top line summary is that the attendee...

I have been slow in publishing the second round voting of the logo feedback survey. Unfortunately, EclipseCon was pretty much all consuming for the past two weeks. We had another good turnout for the second round of voting, 1196 people participated. I really appreciate the time and feedback people provided...