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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...

Last week we held Eclipse Day events in New York, Austin and two in Toronto. Unlike some previous Eclipse Days that were focused on a vertical, these events were focused on a technology, specifically Modeling and EclipseRT. Most of the presentations have now been posted on the event web sites...

Each year at EclipseCon we announce the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. The last 4 years we have recognized worthy individuals and products for their contribution to the Eclipse community. This year I’d like to take a fresh look at the Eclipse awards and see if we can/should revamp...

Microsoft announced today they have purchased the Teamprise technology from SourceGear, products that allow Eclipse developers to connect to the MS Team Foundation Server (TFS). The Teamprise clients will be bundle into Visual Studio 2010, which appears to be set for launch in March 2010. If I am not mistaken...

I’ve just uploaded the slides of the two talks I gave at Eclipse Summit Europe last week on SlideShare. Feel free to contact me if you have questions! I enjoyed the event a lot (cool talks, cool food, cool people), and I already can’t wait for EclipseCon 2010! Use Eclipse...

Developers in Toronto have a great opportunity to participate in back-to-back Eclipse events: Eclipse Modeling and EclipseRT Day on November 18 & 19. Think of it as a mini-EclipseCon but with polite Canadians saying ‘eh’, ‘pop’ and ‘about’. Modeling and Eclipse runtime technology (including OSGi and Equinox) are two of...