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EclipseCon starts in just over 2 weeks. There are tons of great sessions and speakers but the one speaker I am really excited to hear is Clay Shirky. I am a keen observer of community building, social networks, social media and new ways of marketing/communicating. Clay Shirky produces some of...

Bryan Hunt on reminded me on twitter of an interesting article about using Twitter as a participation tool during presentations. I have no idea how many people will be twitter enabled at EclipseCon. However, this article does raise some interesting ideas for presenters to increase audience participation. As I have...

Each year I host a Blogger party on the Sunday before EclipseCon. This year, I suggest we expand the scope of this gathering to include people on twitter; sometimes referred to as a ‘tweetup’. Of course bloggers are also welcome to attend but we might ask you to use small...

This Friday, February 27 at 5pmET is the deadline to vote for the individuals in the Eclipse Community Awards. If you haven’t already voted, now is the time to vote for the individuals that you think deserves special recognition for the extra effort they have contributed to the Eclipse community...

Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC) is the place people go to find stuff in the Eclipse ecosystem. It has over 1100 products listed and 60 service and training providers; gets about 140K+ unique visitors a month and generates about 150-200K click thrus to the sites of the listed products. EPIC is...

The Government of Canada has issued an RFI for information about No Charge Licensed Software; for some reason they needed to create a new term for open source software. Since I am a Canadian, live in Ottawa and am very involved in OSS, I have been preparing a response to...

The Eclipse Banking Day in London last week was a great success. When we first started to plan for this event I did not know what type of response to expect. Based on the results of the event, I can definitely say Eclipse is very popular with the banks in...

La première version, déjà prometteuse, d’Eclipse 4 a été livrée hier. Au programme, une démo mettant en œuvre les grands principes retenus dans le cadre de cette refonte architecturale qu’est e4, à savoir : Le “workbench” de cette démo modélisé de A à Z : les vues, les menus, les...

Last fall at Eclipse Summit Europe I was pleasantly surprised to talk to a number of companies that were formulating their open source strategy. They has questions about different strategies and were interested in talking to people who have experience working in open source. Near the same time, Matt Aslett...

Last year’s Eclipse release (Ganymede) came with a new provisioning platform called p2. For years, Eclipse has been shipped along with a component called the “Update Manager”, which allowed users to easily update their Eclipse installations. Nevertheless, year after year, and especially when Eclipse 3.0 came out, it has become...