Archive for September, 2008
Build that community!
Developing a community around your project is hard work. But it’s worth it. I think that every open source project dreams of having a community… at least they should dream of it.
A community does stuff for you. As you develop a community of users, you’ll get feedback. Feedback is valuable to every project as it [...]
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Welcome “Iron Fist” Aniszczyk
I’d like to welcome Chris Aniszczyk to the Technology PMC. Chris is well-known throughout the community. He is a tireless champion of Eclipse Technology who seems to have his fingers in just about everything. Chris has big dreams for the Technology Project and intends to work hard to attract many new projects. I’m looking forward [...]
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Welcome Gunnar
It is with great pleasure that I welcome Gunnar Wagenknecht to the Technology Project’s Project Management Committee (PMC). Gunnar’s name is no-doubt familiar to many of you: he is a very active member of the Eclipse Community and a prolific contributor (and, based on the pictures on his blog, he enjoys speaking on his cell [...]
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Accessibility and ACTF
I learned a little something about accessibility today while playing with the Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project’s Java Validation Componentry (Javaco).
Actually, I learned a couple of things before I learned the interesting part. First, Javaco currently works on Windows. Try as I might, Linux just isn’t supported. Lesson learned: read the documentation before spending an [...]
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Eclipse IDE for Education
Dwight Deugo and I have been relatively quietly pounding away on a new “Eclipse IDE for Education” component in the SOC project (though I did blog about this a few posts back). The idea is to try and reduce some of the complexity faced by first time users of Eclipse who are in the process [...]
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