Foundation

As I recall (being on the road again), our certificate of incorporation is dated January 28, 2004. Happy 4th birthday Eclipse Foundation! It has certainly been quite a ride, hasn’t it? Hmmm…We will have to think of some party action for the 5th birthday next year.

The process of electing the 2008 board of director slots has begun. As of this moment, there will be four elected committer representatives and four elected add-in provider representatives on next year’s board. However, under our Bylaws, the final determination will be made based on the total number of strategic...

I just received one of those standard project announcements from Anne Jacko, but in it was something which really caught my eye: ——————————————————————- EMFT Project Announcement The EMFT project would like to announcement the creation of a new component, EMF4NET. The goal of EMF4Net is to enhance the Eclipse Modeling...

So the staff of your friendly neighbourhood Eclipse Foundation honoured U.S. Thanksgiving last week with an afternoon of bowling. (That would be 5-pin to those not from Canada.) It was sort of like an Eclipse DemoCamp for the athletically challenged. Apparently my misspent youth was worth something after all. I...

… EclipseCon 2008 Program Committee. I spent a couple of hours yesterday looking through the EclipseCon talk submissions, and I would definitely not want to be in charge of selecting talks. There are simply too many good ones. An embarrassment of riches. A cornucopia of technical info. 230 long talk...

So according to the website, Eclipse was elected as a representative on the Java Community Process SE/EE Executive Committee. Even better, it looks like we did quite well in the voting. There is certainly no shame in getting beaten by Google I’m looking forward to participating on the EC. Like...

Morning cup of Tim Horton’s coffee: $1.05Tuna sandwich for lunch: $4.50Listening to Donald giggle like a school girl when describing the Android SDK using Eclipse: priceless One of the interesting phenomena about working at the Eclipse Foundation is the intelligence and strategy attributed to us. Take for example David Berlind...

As noticed by Genady and others, the Eclipse Foundation is in the running to join the SE/EE Executive Committee of the Java Community Process. The question, of course, is why? I thought I would share our answer via my blog as well. …because we think we have a lot to...

Philippe recently asked a question which I think deserves a clear answer: .. .is the EPL just a joke, that everybody can ignore? The answer is, of course, no. We take the Eclipse Public License very seriously. There have been numerous times when we at the Eclipse Foundation been involved...

I was very intrigued to learn about the European Union Public License today. Having a government-drafted and supported open source license is breaking new ground as far as I know. I found in particularly interesting that they drafters selected the Eclipse Public License as one of the licenses they will...