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S&S Media has just announced Eclipse Forum India to be held May 28-31 in Bangalore India. This is great news. There is a large growing Eclipse community in India, so it is nice to have an Eclipse oriented conference to serve it.

James Governor started with ‘ Microsoft Announces an Eclipse Project‘. Then Steve Wali follows up with his very insightful thought experiement for a Microsoft open source strategy. Part of his strategy is that MS should put Visual Studio into maintenance mode and start an Eclipse C# project. hmmmm….. I actually...

As I have previously mentioned, Josh Reed was down in Antarctica participating in the ANDRILL project and using his Eclipse RCP application, called PSICAT, to analyse the drill cores. Josh is back and he has done a podcast with Jon Erickson of DDJ to explain his project. Give it a...

I am heading to London, UK next week for the first ever Eclipse PluginFest. I am really pleased with the way this is turning out. We have 20 companies and over 40 individuals meeting at the Symbian offices in London. More importantly we have great representation across the tool chain:IDEs...

I’ve been putting a lot of thought into Eclipse Corner lately. We’ve been getting a lot of proposals and submissions lately, and some of them have given me cause to reflect on just what kind of content should be posted on Eclipse Corner. The process today is pretty straight forward...

Eclipse Developer’s Journal has published an article from Todd Williams titled “ Eclipse: A Solid Desktop, Rich-Client, or Embedded Application Framework“. It provides a good overview of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). If you’re thinking about building a rich client application, it’s definitely worth reading. I’ve updated the...

Ahti has done a very nice summary of the current nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards Individual awards. However, don’t forget you can also recognize your favourite Eclipse based product. Nominations are trickling in, last year 80% came in the last week, but we need a lot more. Feel free...

EclipseCon is my favourite show of the year. And that’s not just because I’m an employee of the Eclipse Foundation. Honestly. I’ve put together a recommended track; I’m not sure if I’ve done it in the right spirit, since I’ve just made a listing of the talks that I’m planning...

A new year means we need to order new Eclipse swag. Last year we ordered some shirts and fleeces to give out to people that make an extra effort to build the Eclipse community. We have almost run out so it is time to order more. I know people have...

In 2007, I am really excited that we are going to schedule at least two webinars a month. We had a lot of success with webinars in 2006 and I really believe it is a good way to educate people on Eclipse projects. A special thanks to Adobe for making...