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Archive for April, 2007

Talk about being open

Posted in Uncategorized on April 24th, 2007 | No Comments »

Bjorn has been posting a few blogs about the nuances between open source and open development, transparency and woolies. Okay, maybe not woolies. But being open and transparent is something that we strive for at the Foundation, as we try to use Bugzilla, newsgroups and mailing lists for as much communication that we can.
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Eclipsepedia gets a new Main Page

Posted in Uncategorized on April 20th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

The Eclipse Wiki (Eclipsepedia for lack of originality) got a new, much improved Main Page today, thanks to lots of work from Daniel Spiewak. You may know Daniel as one of the editors of EclipseZone.
Daniel reworked the Main Page into a more Wikified version, putting the emphasis on the wiki-correct page categories instead of [...]

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It’s that time of year again

Posted in Uncategorized on April 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Europa, and a shiny new Eclipse release, is only two months away, so on the IT side of Eclipse.org, preparations are already underway to make sure we’re ready for the onslaught of hungry developers coming to our site for the fresh bits. This year, Europa will be a server-killer, with new releases of heavyweight projects [...]

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CDT takes #1 spot from WebTools on top-10

Posted in Uncategorized on April 3rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »

For the longest time, the WebTools project held the #1 spot on the Popular Projects top-10 list. Today, their crown has been taken by a worthy contender: the CDT project.
The CDT is led by Doug Schaefer, a guy who’s very passionate about the CDT, and about the Eclipse community in general. Props to Doug [...]

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