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In January we started a process to determine if we should update the existing Eclipse logo. As I have said before, the existing logo is great but it was created 8-9 years ago and maybe deserves an update or modernization. The response to a call for new concepts has been...

Millions of individual and thousands of organizations are part of the Eclipse community as users, contributors, committers, adopters, researchers, students, etc, etc. Unfortunately, the majority of the Eclipse community is passive. One thing we are trying to do is make it easier for more people and companies to actively participate...

Jeff Norris from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab is one of the keynotes at EclipseCon 2010. Jeff is a great speaker and typically has lots of really cool videos of robots in his talk, so I am expecting his keynote to be a highlight of the conference. Jeff is also...

Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk has written extensively on the rising importance of data, especially large amounts of data, in the IT industry. Stephen is usually right about these types of trends so I have started to look how this might impact the Eclipse community. Predictably, we are seeing some early...

Wow, we have received over 200 concepts for a new Eclipse logo. Some I really like, some are just ugly. Now we need to start narrowing the choices so we can make a decision. We are going to do two rounds of community voting to determine if it makes sense...

It is always nice to be recognized with industry awards, so I take great pleasure in the fact the Eclipse Foundation was recognized as a ‘Company to Watch’ but Intelligent Enterprise. I especially like their conclusion ‘Eclipse is the tail that now wags enterprise software development.’ From Intelligent Enterprise: Eclipse...

Last week we officially proposed a new Eclipse project to create an client for the Eclipse Marketplace. As I described late last year, the next step for Marketplace is to integrate Marketplace directly into each Eclipse installation. We want to make it as easy as possible for Eclipse users to...

It goes without saying Cloud Computing is a very popular topic in the tech industry. Beyond the marketing hype, cloud computing is changing the way applications are built and deploy. As most people know, OSGi is the component standard used by Eclipse and has many implications for deploying Eclipse-based applications...

One of the first things Oracle announced after they completed the Sun acquisition was that JavaOne would continue but in September (in parallel to Oracle’s existing user conference). Lots of people in the Eclipse community like to speak at JavaOne, so I thought people would like to know the JavaOne...

We are looking at modernizing the Eclipse logo. I kicked off the process a couple of weeks ago and we received some interesting suggestions. However, I felt we needed to get more variety and more graphic designers involved, so I started a project on CrowdSpring and offered a $500 bounty...