Mike Milinkovich's blog

Next Wednesday, October 15th at 12:30pm Eastern time I will be giving my first web talk via Eclipse Live. The talk is going to be “A Practitioners Guide to Ecosystem Development”. Consider it a peak into what we at the Eclipse Foundation think about how to build and foster ecosystems...

Bjorn and guests have been blogging about the results of the recent committer satisfaction survey at Eclipse. I think that the survey itself embodied genius in its simplicity: one question on “…how happy are you with the Foundation’s support of you and your project?” As the Executive Director, I am...

Some of you might have noticed that when Ganymede was first launched yesterday, the eclipse.org website was reeeaaallllyyyy slow for a little while. By way of explanation, I offer the following: But more seriously, many thanks to Denis, Matt, Nathan and Karl for all of their work in getting our...

As a Friend of Eclipse, I was able to download Ganymede this afternoon. Not only did I get it sooner, I got it faster. In fact, thanks to the dedicated bandwidth it was crazy fast to download. Thanks goes to Denis Roy and the webmaster team. It looks like the...

Ganymede is just around the corner, and I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to the many Eclipse committers, project leaders and contributors who have all participated in its success. You have done our community proud. I was tempted to list some of those who have made...

Continuing from yesterday’s post on the Usage Data Collector, I thought we should also describe how we plan to use the UDC data. In the official, lawyer-approved Terms of Use, we have stipulated the following: The Eclipse Foundation may, in its sole discretion, make available to organizations and individuals, on...

One of our challenges at the Eclipse Foundation is understanding how and what people are using Eclipse. Millions of people come to our web site to download the various projects, find different Eclipse based plug-ins (open source and commercial) and use them to create amazing software. If we can gain...

I just recently agreed to be a speaker at Joel Spolsky‘s Business of Software conference in September. I guess it is in some way returning a favor, as Joel gave a very memorable keynote at EclipseCon 2006. The talk is going to be focused on providing a practitioner’s guide to...

I have moved my blogging activities over the the Eclipse blog site. See you over there.

By far and away, my favourite quote from Cory Doctorow‘s talk at EclipseCon was: “Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard.” Those truly are words to live by. Remember that as I walk through some thoughts on Eclipse and our community’s strategy. Tony Baer, who writes OnStrategies has been an avid...