Announcements

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the finalists for the 2009 Eclipse Community Awards.

The Individual Awards recognize the people who have given their time to make Eclipse a vibrant and innovative community. Finalists were selected by their peers in an online vote. The selection of the Top Newcomer Evangelist is based on the individual that has answered the most questions raised on the eclipse.newcomer newsgroup.

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the spring 2009 training class series. The training is an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Equinox & OSGi and Modeling technologies. Eclipse experts will lead the sessions, providing practical experience through classroom instruction and hands-on labs. Classes have been scheduled in 24 different cities around the world from April 6 to May 29, 2009.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Eclipse Riena, a platform for developing multi-tier rich client applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and Equinox.

Eteration and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce EclipsIST, the third annual Eclipse Technical and User Summit taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, April 28-29, 2009.

The Eclipse Foundation is organizing an Open Source Executive Strategy Summit on March 26 in Santa Clara, CA (same location at EclipseCon). The Summit is for executives who are responsible for their organizations open source strategy and participation. The purpose of event is to answer two questions: 1) 'What Open Source Strategies Are Working Today?' and 2) 'What Will Work in the Future?'.

The Eclipse Weather Forecast is a resource for technical and business decision makers in the Eclipse Ecosystem. The weather forecast has been updated as of February 5th, 2009.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a major upgrade to the popular Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project. PDT is an open source development tool that provides all the basic code editing capabilities developers need to get started developing PHP applications. The focus of the PDT 2.0 release is to add support for the object-oriented programming features of PHP and to improve the overall user experience of the PDT environment.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2009, which will take place March 23-26 in Santa Clara, Calif. Actuate, Blu Age, IBM, Red Hat, Sopera and Wind River have all agreed to act as the premier Gold Sponsors for the annual Eclipse community conference.

“The support and leadership of these companies make EclipseCon a world-class conference,� said Mike Milinkovich.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the Eclipse Banking Day in London, on February 12, 2009 in London.

The technical program for EclipseCon 2009 has been selected and is now available on the conference web site. The number and quality of submissions received continues to increase each year, so the job of the program committee is always very difficult. Thanks to all who sent in proposals.

Registration for EclipseCon 2009 is now open. EclipseCon will be held March 23-26 in Santa Clara, CA. The "Very Early" registration price is availabe until December 31 and gives a 40% discount off the onsite price. A single fee provides access to the entire conference.

The Eclipse Foundation has updated the eclipse.org web site terms of use. The new terms of use are available at www.eclipse.org/legal/termsofuse.php. A more detailed explanation of the updates is available at www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20081112_termsofuse.php.

Remember to register for Eclipse Banking Day in NYC on December 9, 2008. This is a day-long event for senior technical developers, architects and managers in the finance industry to learn how to better leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community as part of their development strategy. Attendees will have the chance to hear speakers from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital and UBS plus experts from the Eclipse community. Attendees must be employees or contractors of a financial institution. There is no cost to attend but pre-registration is required.

Eclipse Summit Europe starts on November 18 in Ludwigsburg Germany. If you plan on attending, don't forget to register today.

The Eclipse Foundation is inviting all members of the community to submit ideas for tutorials, long talks, short talks, posters and birds of a feather sessions for EclipseCon 2009. The categories for submission this year include Runtime, C/C++, Tools, Mobile and Embedded, Modeling, Reporting, SOA, Test & Performance, Emerging Technology, and Business and Industry Verticals.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a new event, called Eclipse Banking Day in NYC, on December 9, 2008 in New York City.

During November 2008, the Eclipse Foundation is inviting individuals to attend DemoCamps around the world. The Eclipse DemoCamps are an opportunity to showcase all of the cool, interesting technology being built by the community. They are also an opportunity for you to meet Eclipse enthusiasts in your city.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the new release of the Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java Project (MTJ).

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the Eclipse Summit Europe conference, to be held November 19-20 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The two keynote speakers will be:

• David Wood, Executive VP Research at Symbian. Mr. Wood’s talk ‘Why Should the Mobile World Go Open Source?’ will be his reflections on the possible upsides and downsides when open source software systems are applied in the fast-moving helter-skelter world of mobile phones.
• Dave Thomas, Founder and Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs. Mr.