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One aspect of the marketing discipline I don’t like is when marketeers spend considerable amount of time and money investing in logo designs, names, colors and tag lines. I used to work for a company where the VP Marketing claimed the new logo and look was going dramatically propel the...

This has been a really good week for the EclipseRT runtime strategy. There were three announcements that indicate we are making good progress for establishing Eclipse as a community for creating innovative runtime technology based on OSGi. 1. Project Virgo was announced and proposed this week by SpringSource. As Mike...

The EclipseCon Program Committee will be hard at work over the holidays. They have until January 9 to review 430+ submissions and select about 150 talks for the final program. Given the success of my recommendations for the Early Submissions, I thought why not give them a helping hand. My...

The next step for Eclipse Marketplace (MP) is bringing MP direct to the Eclipse user desktop. We want to build a MP client that will be distributed in all of the Helios EPP packages. Instead of navigating to a separate web site, the Eclipse user will have an integrated user...

Last night was the deadline to have your EclipseCon session proposal considered by the Program Committee (PC) for one of the 5 early bird selections. The good news is the PC now has 131 sessions to consider, the bad news is they have to make the selection by December 14th...

Chris Aniszczyk has written how we have been doing more to solicit financial donations from the community. In particular, we’ve added the Donate Now buttons to our download pages; which happen to be our high traffic pages. Chris raises a good question on how far we should go with our...

I am very pleased to announce that Eclipse Marketplace is now live. Thanks to everyone that provided feedback as we rolled out Marketplace. A big thanks to Nathan Gervias who has done a great job making Marketplace a reality. The results are fantastic. When we first started the project we...

We are all driven by deadlines. Each year the large majority of the EclipseCon session proposals are submitted the last two days before the deadline. However, having session proposals come in earlier give the program committee and the entire community more time to review and comment on the proposals. To...

Nominations are now open for the Eclipse Community Awards. Each year at EclipseCon we put the spotlight on a select group of individuals, products and projects that represent the best of the Eclipse community. Each year, we have some great and well deserving winners. This year we are making a...

I am looking for someone to help write case studies about organizations using Eclipse and EclipseRT . The ideal person would have: 1) background in technical writing, 2) knowledgeable about Eclipse and 3) extra bonus: experience writing case studies. I expect this to be casual part-time work over the next...