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We’ve made a few changes at the Eclipse Foundation. Anne, who many committers know as the “face of the EMO” has been doing double-duty on conferences (EclipseCon and Eclipse Summit Europe) and “project stuff” for a long time. Frankly, she’s been doing a fantastic job of it, but after a...

Ian and I represented Eclipse in the Google I/O Sandbox. We used the Open Social support being developed in the E4 project as our hook. I estimate that less than 50% of the folks who dropped by the booth were familiar with Open Social. A lot of folks just dropped...

I mentioned in a comment last week that — pending Board approval of the 2010 budget — there are a number of items which we’re looking at for 2010 that we at the Eclipse Foundations are pretty excited about. These are some major pieces of work that we are going...

Bjorn, Your latest post deserves a clear response. Your former colleagues at the Eclipse Foundation have tolerated your public abuse quietly because we are professionals, and we honestly thought that you would tire of it. Apparently we were wrong. But the time has come to say it: You are a...

Calling the Eclipse Ottawa community! The Eclipse Foundation would like to invite everyone in the local Eclipse community to join us at Marshy’s on the afternoon of December 18th. If you can make it, please add your name to the meetup page. We hope to see you there!

On Thursday this week (October 8/2009), I’m presenting Mylyn at the FOSSLC Eclipse Bootcamp in Ottawa. Doug Schaefer will be presenting “Eclipse CDT and developing for Android”, and Boris Bokowski will be introducing e4. I wish this was happening after Eclipse Summit Europe. If it were after the Summit, I...

I just received an email out of the blue that really reminded me of how important it is for all of us in the Eclipse community to help our users and adopters. I just wanted to express my appreciation for the help Scott and the ECF team have been providing...

I was asked earlier today if I could describe “ …the Eclipse community and its differences between other traditional commercial open source communities say like Sugar’s and non, or less pure commercial communities like Apache.” Darn good question. Off the top of my head here are a couple of key...

Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 will be held again this year in beautiful Ludwigsburg, Germany on October 27-29. The deadline to submit your proposals is August 18th. That date is not very far away. I encourage you to submit a proposal about your project (and other topics of interest) sooner rather...

From the emo@ mail bag: I hope you can consider change icon for the “eclipse BUGS”. Ladybugs are good bugs, they are helpers to farmers and gardeners. They eat bad bugs. They should not be used as symbol to represent “eclipse BUGS”. My response: I think that the ladybug is...