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A Simple Thank You
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 particularly significant contributions, but I am [...]
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Using Usage Data
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 a case-by case-basis, the data [...]
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Collecting Usage Data
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 insight [...]
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Software Ecosystems
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 software ecosystems, a concept we have [...]
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