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I don’t normally follow the RubyOnRails community but a current controversy in the RoR community caught my attention. The heart of the matter is a recent conference presentation, titled ‘CouchDB – Perform like a porn star’, that offended a number of the community members. More details can be found in...

This year the OSGi Alliance is holding their OSGi Community Event on September 22-23, 2009 in Redwood City. The Eclipse Foundation is a member of the OSGi Alliance and I have been asked to act as the conference chair. Today we announced the Call for Papers for the event. The...

Doesn’t everyone want to be a rocket scientist? Here is your chance to use your Eclipse skills and work on the development of spacecraft operations software at NASA. Seems like a pretty cool job. The guys at NASA have been great supporters of Eclipse. You can find out more about...

I am working on three projects that could use the assistance of a graphic artist or at least someone with Photoshop skills. If you are so inclined, all contributions are appreciated. 1. We need a graphic for the upcoming Galileo release. You can see what was done in previous years...

We are making plans to field a survey of the Eclipse community. The goal is to better understand how and what people are doing with Eclipse and open source in general. We plan to open the survey next week and hope to publish the results in early June. I would...

The big news today is Google’s announcement that Google App Engine will now support Java. At the same time Google made available an Eclipse plugin to make it easier to write Java applications for App Engine. This video provides a great demo of the Eclipse support. Having Java support on...

Each year we ask EclipseCon registrants some questions to better understand who is coming to EclipseCon. The questions are optional but we tend to get a good percentage of attendees responding. I am a bit late writing up the responses, but better late than never. For this interested, the 2008...

Last week at EclipseCon, the Eclipse Foundation hosted our very first Open Source Executive Strategy Summit. The goal was to bring together people to explore what open source strategies are working and what will work in the future. Approximately 60 people attended the day long Summit and the feedback we...

Today is the first day of the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, so it seemed like a good time to announce that the Eclipse Foundation has joined the Symbian Foundation and the Symbian Foundation has joined the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse and Symbian have been working together for a number...

This year at EclipseCon we decided to use Twitter to create an online community for the conference. Twitter is still relatively new to most people so I thought it might be interesting to write a report about our experiences. Hopefully other conference organizers can use some of these ideas and...