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
Ian Skerrett
Director of Marketing
Eclipse Foundation
613-224-9461 ext. 227
blog: ianskerrett.wordpress.com
EclipseCon 2009,
March 23-26