Announcements

For those that like to be using the latest and greatest, the Ganymede M4 packages are now available from the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP) download site.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the support of eleven industry-leading companies as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2008, the annual conference of the Eclipse community.

The deadline for nominations for the Annual Eclipse Community Awards is fast approaching. Visit http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/awards_nominations.php for more information.

Eclipse and OMG are jointly organising two one-day symposia to promote and build on the partnership between Eclipse's open source software and OMG's open standards - one as part of EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, the other during the OMG Technical Meeting in Ottawa. Each symposium will be organised as a series of discussion sessions on corresponding OMG standards and Eclipse projects. In each case the purpose will be to discuss the alignment between current standard and implemented software, and identify areas where the cooperation could be further improved in future.

The Eclipse Community Awards are an annual event designed to show appreciation to individuals and technologies that make Eclipse a stronger community. There are two categories of awards - individual and technology. The Eclipse Foundation is now accepting nominations for the awards, so show your love and nominate a person or product that has made a difference.

The EclipseCon 2008 technical program has been selected and is now available on the conference web site. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal to the program committee. The number and quality of submissions received was tremendous so the program committee had a difficult time selecting the sessions, but it has made the final program exceptionally strong.

The Eclipse Foundation has launched a new system to allow individuals to make a financial donation to the Eclipse Foundation. The donations will be used to help fund the operations of the Eclipse community, such as extra hardware for open source projects, increase bandwidth and sponsorship of Eclipse community events.

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The Eclipse Foundation and IDC have released the results of a comprehensive survey of the Eclipse Community conducted during the summer of 2007.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the creation of a new open-source project called Hibachi. The Hibachi project provides an industrial-strength, vendor-neutral Ada integrated development environment (IDE) that also serves as a platform for other contributors to provide value-added functionality for Ada developers. Hibachi is a sub-project of the Eclipse Tools Project, and it parallels and complements CDT, the C/C++ Development Tooling project, providing a multi-language native embedded software development environment.

The keynote speakers for EclipseCon 2008 will feature well known industry speakers including Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and open source advocate; Dan Lyons, also known as the Fake Steve Jobs; and Sam Ramji, Director at Microsoft Open Source Labs.

During the months of November and December, we are inviting individuals to organize and attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world. Eclipse DemoCamp is an opportunity to showcase all of the interesting technology being built by the Eclipse community. It is also an opportunity for you to meet Eclipse enthusiasts in your city.

It is now time to submit your talk or tutorial for EclipseCon 2008. The entire Eclipse community is invited to submit ideas for tutorials, long talks, short talks, posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) 1.0, a freely downloadable Ajax platform for creating and deploying Rich Internet Applications.

The Eclipse Foundaiton invites you to attend a party at the upcoming Eclipse World conference. A number of the Eclipse project leaders and committers will be on hand to demo their projects and answer your questions. Come early to chat and network with some of the leaders of the Eclipse projects.

Visit our Downloads page to grab the Europa Fall Maintenace Release.

The Aperi Project is looking for participants for their survey. Visit the Aperi Homepage for more information

Eclipse Summit Europe features over 60 technical talks and keynotes from Erich Gamma of IBM and Joerg Sievert of SAP.

The Eclipse Summit Europe program has over 60 in-depth sessions including consumer stories, demonstrations, Europa project updates, and New & Noteworthy projects.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of the 1.0 release of the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project. Eclipse PDT is a set of tools and frameworks that enhance the productivity of developers using PHP, a popular, general-purpose dynamic language that is especially suited for development of web applications and web services. This is the first Eclipse project that targets the large PHP developer community.