Mike Milinkovich's blog

Bjorn’s latest blog post on “ Not A Product” has received some passionate responses. It is important that everyone understand that the opinions expressed in Bjorn’s post are his own. They are most definitely not the consensus position of either the Eclipse Foundation staff or of the Board. Bjorn has...

Well, the nominations are up, and 2009 Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors election is shaping up to be the most interesting yet. There are six nominees for Committer Rep and nine nominees for Sustaining Member Rep, each competing for four available seats. My recollection is that is the largest number...

Today marks the fifth birthday of the Eclipse Foundation. My how time flies when you’re having fun! It is customary to mark these types of occasions with a bit of an retrospective. My challenge is to try to condense the swirl of activity that is Eclipse into some common themes...

I am very happy to announce that we have a new project proposal at Eclipse. Now the fact that we have a new project proposal is not in itself very interesting. We have those all the time. What is new and interesting about this one, however, is that it is...

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...