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The new Eclipse Examples Project has been created, provisioned, and set to an incubation-conforming state. In short, we’re good to go. I have some code that’s ready to move into the project (pending PMC approval and IP review). But before that, we need to finalize a proper plan for the...

The GSoC timeline shows April 7, 5:00 PM PDT (00:00 UTC April 8, 2008) as the application deadline. Students, make sure you get your applications in! FWIW, we currently have 120 submissions from students

Eric Rizzo received the Top Newcomer Evangelist award at EclipseCon 2008. In this podcast, Eric discusses his tireless work with the Eclipse newcomer newsgroup, getting help with Eclipse, and more. The link should also soon be available on Eclipse Live.

The Google Summer of Code timeline is posted in the GSoC FAQ. According to the timeline, students have until March 31 to submit their project proposals. Don’t delay, submit today!

I just posted a video podcast titled “ Creating an Equinox Service using Declarative Services“. This video podcast briefly describes Equinox services and goes through the steps required to create and run a service using the Equinox Declarative Services (in incubation at the time of recording). For the recording, I...

We’ve received many wonderful applications; I’m really looking forward to this term’s GSoC. Students, you need to submit your proposals through the Google Summer of Code system. You can find it here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/. You will have to register with Google if you want them to pay you for your efforts...

Google has opened their Summer of Code 2008 application system up for students, so now is the time. The student application deadline is March 31 @ 5pm PDT. We have already received a bunch of applications and there’s some good stuff. There are also a lot of incomplete proposals. Students...

Tonight I was asked what, for me, was the highlight of EclipseCon 2008. The keynotes were good… great even. Finally meeting Eric Rizzo, one of the most prolific contributors on eclipse.newcomer, face-to-face was great. I attended many sessions and enjoyed them all (though I have to admit a certain amount...

In Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration Scott Lewis (BEA Systems), started by stating the goals of the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project: to “lower barriers to team and community communication by providing [an] interoperable, integrated, extensible framework”. Scott spoke of team productivity. Specifically, he talked a book by...

People often ask us why we have EclipseCon in Santa Clara every year. This is the convention center in Santa Clara: (note the fountains on the left, the palm trees, and the generally warm glow). This is my home in Ottawa (where most Eclipse Foundation employees live): (note the after...