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So the Eclipse 3.1 download meter is currently at 994,930. Are there 5,070 people out there who are going to download on a Saturday night? I will check it again at midnight to see which day counts as the end of the challenge. All you folks out there who pledged...

As mentioned by Ted Leung, this weekend the OSCON folks have organized the Free/Libre Open Source Software Project Summit. A big “thank you” goes to Allison Randal for all of the work to set this up. The first day was focused on intros, overviews of organization, governance and funding. It...

I just read a hilarious presentation from ApacheCon Europe entitled Why I Hate the Apache Web Server. I think that any successful project with some history will have some warts and inconsistencies. I’m sure we have our share. Anyone out there interested in creating a similar presentation for EclipseCon 2006...

This is sort of “better late than never”, but between traveling to JavaOne and our Foundation staff member meeting last week, I missed Kirill Grouchnikov’s blog posting on who fixed what bugs in Eclipse 3.1. With regard to the Eclipse projects, IBM still has over half of the committers working...

As I mentioned in my previous post, Eclipse.org was hammered by a DDOS attack when we posted Eclipse 3.1. You may have noticed that the form of the attack has almost certainly inflated the number of download requests showing in the “ Eclipse Download Challenge” counter. So as described in...

So I head for SFO in the wee hours of the morning and thought it would be worth jotting down a few thoughts and observations. Here they are in more-or-less random order. Eclipse was very well represented at JavaOne. For example, it was amazing the degree to which Eclipse showed...

I just info from Denis (Eclipse webmaster) that part of the reason the site was slow was that we were hit by a DDOS attack at the same time the 3.1 release went up. Denis has dealt with that and the site is running better now. Hopefully we can get...

Well, Luis beat me to the punch, but Eclipse 3.1 is released and ready to go! We’ve doubled the bandwidth at http://www.eclipse.org, so hopefully the Million Download Challange will make me pay up big time to my favourite charity. I would really like to thank the platform team for all...

Well dropping by the Eclipse booth this afternoon really made my day. On the first day of the exhibit hall being open, the interest in the Eclipse Passport and the Eclipse t-shirts has been awesome. When I dropped by there was a line of at least twenty people there waiting...

Hot on the heels of my last post comes some very exciting news about the use of Eclipse in the Rich Internet Application (RIA) space. In my last post I talked about how James Governor‘s post on RCP showed that he really understands some of the potential of the Eclipse...