Announcements

The nomination deadline for the Eclipse Community Awards is January 27, 2012. Don't forget to nominate the individuals or products that were the best in 2011. Winners will be announce at EclipseCon 2012.

On Thursday, December 22, 2011, the Eclipse Foundation will be changing the mechanisms it uses to authenticate user access to its various websites, such as Bugzilla, the Forums, and the Wiki. The purpose of this change is to simplify our account management, reduce duplicate accounts and move towards open standards for user authentication.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the technical program and tutorials for the upcoming EclipseCon 2012 conference. The annual Eclipse community conference is being held March 26-29, 2012 at a new location in Reston, Virginia. The conference will be co-located with the new Agile ALM Connect conference and the annual OSGi DevCon.

The speakers and program have been announced for the new Agile ALM Connect conferece, co-located with EclipseCon 2012. Aglle ALM Connect focuses on connecting the tools, agile methods and people across the software development lifecycle.

We are very excited to announce the publication of this fantastic new book on Hudson available from the Hudson web site. It provides a comprehensive guide to using Hudson from initial download to production deployment.

In the month of November, the Eclipse community is celebrating 10 years since the start of the Eclipse open source project. In November 2001, the Eclipse IDE and platform were first made available under an open source software license. IBM made the initial $40 million contribution of technology to start the Eclipse project that has now grown to technology commons with an estimated value of over $800 million. The Eclipse community has also emerged as the leading place for individuals and organizations to collaborate on innovative technology development.

A new open source industry collaboration, called Polarsys, is being created at the Eclipse Foundation to focus on building and maintaining tools for safety critical and embedded system development. Interested parties in Polarsys include Airbus, Astrium Satellites, ATOS, CEA, CS (Communication & Systèmes), Ericsson, IRIT (Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse), Inria, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Obeo, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Tecnalia, Thales, and Xipp.

Sierra Wireless, IBM, Eurotech, and the Eclipse Foundation establish an M2M Industry Working Group to ease the development, testing, and deployment of machine-to-machine solutions

Upcoming events: 7 November in Raleigh, USA and Bonn, Germany; 8 November in Dresden, Germany and Warsaw, Poland; 10 November in Trondheim, Norway; and 12 November in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a new technical conference focused on connecting the latest software development tools, Agile methods and people across the entire application lifecycle. This new conference, called Agile ALM Connect, will be held March 26-29 in Reston, VA and will be co-located with EclipseCon 2012.

In November the Eclipse community will be celebrating 10 years of Eclipse as an open source project. Check out the 10th birthday page for celebration details.

Eclipse Day Paris is a full day of talks, discussions, and networking for technological and industrial members of the Eclipse ecosystem (November 8, Le Pavillon Royal); register now.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the recent Eclipse Indigo SR1 release includes full production level support for Java 7, the recent major release of the Java SDK. Developers can now use Eclipse JDT to develop Java applications that take advantage of the new Java 7 features.

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Fall 2011 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.

EclipseCon 2012 call for papers is now open. We invite you to submit proposals for speaking topics. The deadline for submissions is November 11, 2011. EclipseCon 2012 will be held March 26-29 at a new location in Reston, Virginia (close to Washington DC).

The EclipseCon Europe technical program is now available. Register now and plan to celebrate the 10th birthday of Eclipse at EclipseCon Europe.

Registration is open for Eclipse Testing Day, 7 September in Neuss, Germany. This day-long event features eight talks from experts in testing processes, tools, and technology, as well as opportunities to see the latest offerings from Testing Day sponsors.

The Eclipse Foundation, in collaboration with Oracle, is pleased to announce the Java 7 Summit, to be held at the upcoming EclipseCon Europe in Ludwigsburg, Germany on November 2-4, 2011.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new open source initiative to define and implement a standard platform for the software development tools used in the automotive industry. [German]

We are pleased to announce that EclipseCon 2012 is moving to a new location just outside Washington, D.C. The annual Eclipse North American conference will be March 26-29 at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia.