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Each year we ask the attendees of Eclipse Summit Europe some questions about themselves. It gives us some insight into who is actually attending the conference. Here are some of the results. 1. Where do people live? Not surprisingly, a lot of the ESE attendees are from Germany; in total...

Earlier this year we started a project to re-create Eclipse Plugin Central. Thanks to the hard work of Nathan Gervais, we are getting very close to making Eclipse Marketplace a reality. In late September, we rolled out a beta of the site and now we would like to get even...

JetBrains just announced an open source edition of their popular IntelliJ IDE, under the Apache 2.0 license. As many might know, IntelliJ was one of the last IDE’s that actually cost money. It appears they have adopted an open source plus commerical value add strategy, similar to many companies in...

Kirk Knoernschild from Burton Group is asking for inut to an OSGi Survey. Last year Kirk did a similar survey and the results we pretty interesting. As Kirk mentioned, not exactly a scientific survey but since OSGi seems to be gaining momentum it will be interesting to compare results. The...

Last week I attended the CTIA conference; the USA mobile phone industry conference. At the conference, Eclipse announced that Sony Ericsson and Ericsson had joined our Pulsar initiative. I also spent the week talking to developers and learning more about the mobile developer community. Mobile development is definitely on the...

This past week I had the opportunity to interview both keynote speakers for the upcoming Eclipse Summit Europe conference. My goal was to find out a bit more about their upcoming presentations. The interviews are now available as podcasts on Eclipse Live. Don Syme works at MS Research in Cambridge...

I believe that to grow any community you need to have vibrant online collaborations and periodic face-to-face meetings. The face-to-face meetings are how you develop and cement relationships. This is why I believe the Eclipse Days and the Eclipse DemoCamps are such an important part of growing the Eclipse community...

I am very pleased to announce the Eclipse Foundation will be hosting two EclipseRT Days in Austin and Toronto on November 17 and 19 respectively. What is EclipseRT you ask? EclipseRT is the name we are using to identify the Eclipse projects that are focused on delivering runtime frameworks and...

Like EclipseCon, we are encouraging the use of twitter at Eclipse Summit Europe. We have launched the ESE Birds Nest to highlight the speakers, exhibitors and conference attendees that are on twitter. There are a number of things you can do to follow ESE on twitter. 1. Join the ESE...

Eclipse Day at the Googleplex 2009 was another great success. Approximately 150 people attended the day long event in sunny Mountain View. The Googleplex is a great location (including the heated toilet seats) and our Google hosts put on a top notch day. What really impressed me was the quality...