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Every once in a while, my Google alerts brings up something that makes me say ‘that is kind of cool’. For instance, today this announcement that a fleet of US Navy destroyers will be using a Java rules engine, called Jesse, that is built on top of Eclipse. I realize...

For those getting bored about the ongoing blah blah about Clinton vs Obama or McCain vs Romney or you think US politics just doesn’t matter, I give you something that matters and where you can have a direct impact. The voting for the Eclipse Community Awards is now open. We...

As Chris pointed out the Eclipse community is really embracing IRC. I am a lurker on the #eclipse channel and the one thing that has always impressed me is the awesome support provided by the community. In particular, Remi Suen is machine in responding to questions. Yesterday, I found this...

Understanding how and what people use in Eclipse has always been a challenge. To help address this issue, we are planning to introduce the Eclipse Usage Data Collector (UDC) in the upcoming Ganymede release. The intention of the UDC is to track how people use Eclipse, so as Chris has...

For those that like to be using the latest and greatest, the Ganymede M4 packages are now available from the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP) download site. This year EPP is going to produce packages for each Ganymede milestone and release candidate. This will hopefully make it easier to test the...

Dana Blackenhorn recently wrote two interesting articles about different approaches to open source development. The first article ‘ The open source development incline‘ identifies three basic models: At the top of the incline are what I will call proprietary open source projects, owned by one company. Sun works on this...

The deadline to send in a nomination for the Eclipse Community Awards is next Friday, January 25. In the individual category, we already have lots of great nominees. However, I know there are others that deserve recognition, so please take the opportunity to nominate someone you think deserves to be...

It has been my belief that the next big thing for open source software (OSS) will be creating industry specific tools, frameworks and platforms. OSS is well established in the tools and middleware stacks but a lot of the benefits are also applicable to software higher up the stack. Recently...

We now have 1000 plug-ins listed on EPIC. This is a significant milestone and we appreciate everyone that has published their products, open source projects and services on EPIC. I know there are many more Eclipse based products that are not listed on EPIC, so please feel free to add...

Today, we announced a new program that allows individuals to make financial donations to the Eclipse Foundation. We have hooked up a PayPal account that allows you to use a credit card or PayPal account to make a donation to Eclipse. We have also started a program called ‘Friends of...