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22 is the number of people who last year registered for EclipseCon on December 31, New Years Eve. Each year New Years Eve is one of the most popular days to register for EclipseCon since it is the last day for the very early registration prices. This year, people should...

I am pleased to announce we are organizing an Eclipse Banking Day in London on February 12. As with similar events in Frankfurt and New York, the goal is to encourage senior technical people from the financial services community to share their experiences of using Eclipse and open source software...

The holiday season is close upon us. The staff at the Eclipse Foundation in Ottawa would like to extend their best wishes to everyone in the Eclipse community. As many of you know, there are a lot of great people that work at the Foundation. I’ve asked each of them...

The deadline for the JavaOne Call for Papers is next Friday, December 19, 2008. I am sure lots of people are focused on EclipseCon but it would be great to get some Eclipse talks submited and accepted at JavaOne.

The Eclipse Banking Day in NYC finished up as a great success. We had approximately 75 people in attendance; representing 14 different financial institutions and 10 ISVs that target the financial industry. I really enjoyed the format of having presenters from the Eclipse and banking community talking about what is...

Each year the Eclipse Community Awards recognize individuals, products and technology that make Eclipse such a great community. Nominations are now open for the 2009 edition. For the individual awards, anyone can nominate, via bugzilla, an individual in three categories: Nominations for Top Ambassador Award Nominations for Top Committer Award...

Business Week just published the ‘CEO Guide to Open Source Software’ and let me say it is pretty lame. I can only hope that most CEO’s will look further than this report to be educated about Open Source Software. The report is essentially a rehash of the messages from...

Tim Bray has written an insightful piece describing his perscription for a healthier Sun, at the end he suggested others might want to do the same, so here is my version. Product Strategy Sun’s problem is not that they don’t have good products, it is they have too many products...

Just a friendly reminder that the Eclipse Banking Day in New York City starts in two weeks time on December 9. We have a great program that features talks on Equinox, EMF, RAP, BIRT/DTP and others, plus speakers from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital and UBS. It should be...

I was able to track down 3 more Symposium leaders at ESE. Hear what they had to say about the highlights of their symposiums. Jeff McAffer, co-leader of Eclipse RT PMC, discusses the highlights of the RT Symposium. [blip.tv ?posts_id=1493992&dest=-1] Christine Mitterbauer talks about the results of the Test-Driven Development...