Announcements

The second issue of the EclipseCon Europe Newsletter has been published. You can read it online here.

The early registeration deadline for EclipseCon Europe is September 30. Register today to qualify for the discounted price.

EclipseCon 2013 is scheduled for March 25-28 in Boston, MA. The conference call for papers is now open. Everyone is invited to submit a speaking proposal.

The Eclipse Finance Day will be held October 16, 2012 in Zurich Switzerland. The details agenda and registration information are now available.

The Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Fall 2012 Training Series. We are pleased to introduce two new courses, Eclipse4 RCP and Building OSGI/RCP with Maven/Tycho.

Machine-2-Machine (M2M) or the Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology area and industry that is growing very quickly, has a lot of great potential but I am not sure is understood very well by the software industry.

This weeks' camps include Dresden on July 4 and Krakow on July 5.

As is the tradition for the end of June, the Eclipse community celebrates the release of the annual Eclipse release train, this year code-named Juno. This is the ninth year the community has shipped a release train, and each year the release gets bigger. Juno represents the work of 72 project teams by 445 open source committers on 55 million lines of code, and the participation of 40+ Eclipse member companies.

Comme le veut la tradition de fin Juin, la communauté Eclipse célèbre la sortie simultanée d’Eclipse qui cette année se nomme Juno. Pour la 9ème année consécutive la communauté a mené à bon port cette version, toujours de plus en plus importante. Juno représente le travail de 72 équipes de projets impliquant 445 committers sur 55 millions de lignes de code, et la participation de plus de 40 organismes membres de la fondation Eclipse.

The results of the Eclipse Community Survey are now available. Thanks to everyone that participated.

Mark your calendar, EclipseCon 2013 will be held March 25-28, 2013 in Boston, MA.

The Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group (IWG) was established in November 2011 as an industry collaboration with the purpose of creating an open platform of tools and frameworks to simplify the creation of M2M and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The goal of the group is to break down the silos that often occur between M2M applications and enable interoperability among different M2M devices, M2M servers, and enterprise applications.

We are pleased to announce the co-location of the OSGi Community Event 2012 with EclipseCon Europe 2012, October 23-25, in Ludwigsburg, Germany. This year's theme for the OSGi Community Event is "Reducing Complexity with OSGi." EclipseCon Europe's themes are Eclipse Technology, Building Industry Solutions, Community and Collaboration, and Other Cool Stuff.

Eclipse Day Delft will be 27 September in Delft, The Netherlands. Proposals should be emailed to the Eclipse Day Delft Organizers. See the wiki page for details.

Eclipse Day Toulouse is scheduled for May 24 in Toulouse, France. The conference features tracks on embedded development, M2M and OSS business models. Registration is now open.

Submissions are open for EclipseCon Europe 2012. ECE is October 23-25, 2012 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that Eclipse has been awarded the Software System Award.

To mark the Juno Simultaneous Release, Eclipse community members are organizing DemoCamps around the world. To sign up to organize one or attend one in your city, see the DemoCamp wiki. Camps are scheduled from June 1-30.

The Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Spring 2012 Training Series. These training classes are an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Eclipse BIRT, Eclipse Equinox/OSGi and Modeling technologies.

Some speakers have already posted slides from their session at Eclipsecon 2012. The sessions list will be updated as speakers upload their slides.