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Kudos
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 me as I explore using [...]
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Differentiating Communities
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 differentiating points. I would certainly be interested [...]
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Releasing Galileo
It was smooth as silk this morning as our esteemed Webmaster Denis Roy pushed the “big red button” to unleash Galileo. He had his moment of trepidation, but so far everything has gone very smoothly.
Thirty-three projects, 380 committers, 24MLOC+…this is a major software release no matter how you measure it.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone in [...]
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Berlin Board Stammtisch
Next week is our first-ever Eclipse Board of Directors meeting outside of the USA. Berlin is our destination, primarily based on the fact that it is a darn cool city.
Although Ralph won’t be able to join us, we are going to carry on the tradition he has created and have an Eclipse Stammtisch while we’re [...]
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Time Flies
Today is a bit of a milestone for me, as it is exactly five years since I assumed the role of Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.
I had an inkling that this was going to be a different kind of role when a few days before I even started a journalist by the name of [...]
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Interesting Times Indeed
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 being supported by our friends [...]
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On Ecosystems
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 around the Eclipse technology.
It should be [...]
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Atta Boys (and Girls)
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 pretty thrilled with the response, as [...]
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The best laid plans…
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 IT infrastructure ready for the deluge.
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I Have Ganymede. Do You?
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 distribution setup is well architected [...]
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