All,
Nominations are now open for the Eclipse Community
Awards. These annual awards recognize key individuals, products and
technologies that make Eclipse a vibrant community. The award winners will be
announced March 23 at EclipseCon 2009.
The deadline for nominations is January 30, 2009.
There are three categories for the
individual awards:
- Top Ambassador - An individual (committer or
non-committer) who best promotes and supports the Eclipse community.
Everyone can nominate and vote for this award.
- Top Committer - An Eclipse committer who
best supports the community through newsgroups, Bugzilla, white papers, conference
presentations, blogs and other forums. Everyone can nominate and vote for
this award.
- Top Contributor - An Eclipse contributor who
best helps the community through submission of patches & comments on
bugs, posts to newsgroups, creation of white papers, presentations at
conferences, blogs, IRC and other forums. Top contributors make their
contributions due to their passion for making Eclipse a better community.
In general, no one is paying them for the time they spend on making their
Eclipse contributions. Everyone can nominate and vote for this award.
- Most Prolific Newcomer Evangelist - An
individual whom best exemplifies the welcoming of new people into the
Eclipse community. This award will be presented to the individual that has
answered the most questions raised on the eclipse.newcomer
newsgroup.
For products and technologies there
are 6 categories:
- Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Developer Tool - A
commercial product that provides an innovative, high quality product for
software developers.
- Best Open Source Eclipse-Based Developer Tool - An
open source project (not hosted at Eclipse) that provides an innovative,
high quality product for software developers.
- Best Commercial Equinox Application - A
commercial product that demonstrates the most innovative use of Eclipse
Equinox.
- Best Open Source Equinox Application - An open
source project (not hosted at Eclipse) that demonstrates the most
innovative use of Eclipse Equinox.
- Best Commercial RCP Application - A
commercial product that illustrates the most innovative use of Eclipse RCP
for end user applications.
- Best Open Source RCP Application - Recognizes
an open source project (not hosted at Eclipse) that illustrates the most
innovative use of Eclipse RCP for end user applications.
Please consider nominating your
product or an individual that you think deserves special recognition. Further
details about the nominations are available on the Community Awards
page.
Regards,
Ian
sent on behalf of:
Ian Skerrett
Director of Marketing
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
613-224-9461 ext. 227
blog: ianskerrett.wordpress.com
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