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… 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...

We are just a few weeks away from our second annual Eclipse Summit Europe event. Last year’s event was an outstanding gathering of the Eclipse community, and I am definitely looking forward to this year’s as well. ESE is a little bit different from EclipseCon, and in some ways even...

Sitting at home in my pajamas with a fever and a sore throat does not usually put me in an great mood. However, there have been a number of news items this week that really do make for some very good news for the Eclipse community and ecosystem that I...

There’s been a bit of conversation going on between Savio Rodrigues and Angry Bill Burke about the value of trademarks this week. This is rather timely, given the recent update to the Eclipse Foundation Trademark Guidelines and the parallel conversation about “ CDT for Windows” going on between Ian Skerrett...

IANAL, not even on TV. I noticed an article in InformationWeek that asserts that the Eclipse Public License ( EPL) and GPLv3 are compatible. Although I think that it would be a good thing if it was easier for the two communities to share and re-use code, the article is...