Foundation

Code Keiretsu

Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 09:52 by Mike Milinkovich
Simon Phipps wrote an interesting blog post musing about the how the Japanese business model of interlocking companies ( keiretsu) and the long tail intersect to describe the functionings of open source communities. Basically, the idea is that open source communities can be described as “code keiretsus around a long...

GPLv3 Update

Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 17:10 by Mike Milinkovich
I thought I would mention a few early thoughts on the GPLv3 progress, and the impact it may have on the Eclipse community. (In other words, I am most emphatically not talking about the merits of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)’s proposed GPL revisions in general.) Janet Campbell from the...

Adobe Developer Summit

Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 16:51 by Mike Milinkovich
Now there’s a company that know how to treat its developers. 2400 hundred technical people (1200 from out of town) all in the San Jose Convention Centre. That is a non-trivial investment of time and money into team building. But if you’re going to work in a distributed environment, it...

Eclipse for the World

Friday, February 3, 2006 - 13:00 by Mike Milinkovich
Perhaps it’s because of my recent trip to China, but it is becoming increasingly clear that internationalization is a very big deal for everyone in the software world. The ability to fully enable products and applications for double-byte and bi-directional languages is key. Enter ICU4J. One look at the JDK...

Election Time

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 12:27 by Mike Milinkovich
It’s February so that means its election time in the Eclipse community. Each year, the committer community and the add-in provider community vote for their representatives on the Eclipse Board of Directors. The number of elected reps is calculated using a formula based on the number of strategic members. The...

A Comic Moment

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 01:05 by Mike Milinkovich
I finally have a moment — and the picture thanks to John — to mention this truly comic moment in Beijing. As John Kellerman and I were doing our lightning tour of the Forbidden City, this class of girls came up and asked to get their picture taken with us...

Brand Hijacked

Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 15:07 by Mike Milinkovich
I’ve been noticing an interesting trend in the worldwide ecosystem growth of Eclipse. No longer content with just focusing on software and developer tools, the Eclipse community has begun to branch out into new areas. Among them: UK-based courier services and Canary Island real estate. As evidence, take a look...

Eclipse in Bejing

Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 08:55 by Mike Milinkovich
I’m heading to the airport soon, and wanted to blog about the week before leaving. I’ve been in Bejing this week for the first annual Eclipse Day in China. This event was hosted by Tsinghua University, the premier technical university in China. (Sometimes referred to as the “MIT of China”.)...

Question Conventional Wisdom

Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 20:43 by Mike Milinkovich
As already referenced by Bjorn and Ward, this article by John Mark Walters makes for some very interesting reading. I highly recommend it, and I am already looking forward to reading the next one in his series. The article has some interesting implications for Eclipse. I would venture to say...

Java Detour

Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 21:16 by Mike Milinkovich
After the Eclipse Board and Council meetings I headed down to San Diego to meet with the Executive Committees of the Java Community Process. I was there to have a conversation on what Eclipse is and what we do. On the way to SFO, we drove by this coffee shop...