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The Galileo release is next Wednesday. We want to encourage everyone to help promote the Galileo release. Lots of people are already writing blogs about Galileo and we have over 500 people on the Galileo Birds Nest to promote Galileo on twitter. However, next Wednesday we want everyone on twitter...

Tools for mobile Linux (TmL) is project #3 in my series of projects new to the Galileo release train. Eric Cloninger is the TmL project lead. What does your project do? The Tools for mobile Linux (TmL) project creates tools and frameworks for mobile application development. Who are your typical...

Next up in my series of projects new to the release train is PDT. PDT isn’t really a new project but this is the first time it has joined the release train. They have also created a new PHP package that is currently the second most popular RC4 package on...

This year we have 10 new projects joining the Galileo release train. I thought it might be interesting to highlight some of these new projects in a quick Q&A with the project leaders. The first project is XText, a project in the Eclipse Modeling project. Sven Efftinge is the project...

A key finding in the recent Eclipse Community Survey was the significant increase of developers using Eclipse in Linux desktops; in participate Ubuntu and Debian. However, the irony of this good news story is that the version of Eclipse on the Debian and Ubuntu distro is Eclipse 3.2, almost 3...

Eclipse RCP continues to be used for some very interesting applications. Yesterday I came across two organizations that were building electronic medical record (EMR) systems on top of RCP. 1) Elexis is an open source project in Switzerland that provides An Eclipse RCP program for all aspects of a medical...

The Call for Papers for Eclipse Summit Europe is now open. This year the program committee is organized in 5 categories: Runtime, IDE, Embedded, Modeling, and Other/New & Noteworthy. Deadline for submission is August 18, 2009. However, the smart presenter will get their proposals in early. btw, ESE is once...

Today, three different Eclipse oriented jobs were posted on twitter. Not everyone is on twitter, so I thought I’d repeat them here. All three positions appear to be on the west coast, near San Francisco. I don’t have many details but if you are interested send me an e-mail or...

We are pleased to announce the second Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on August 27, 2009 at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Last year we had over 100 people attend this event, so I am very excited that Google has agreed to host another one. The agenda includes...

JavaOne 2009 is winding down. This year the conference had a more somber feel. It was really hard to pick up any energy about a new trend or technology. The main question on people’s mind was ‘What is Oracle going to do?’. Of course no one has any idea what...