Announcements

The Eclipse Foundation is looking for members to speak at Eclipse Summit Europe. Prepared presentations should last approximately 60 minutes, including 5 minutes of questions from the audience at the end. Submitted talks should focus on 1 of 2 categories: 1) Consumer Stories; or 2) New & Noteworthy.

WTP 1.5.4 has been released to fix a number of bugs in the 1.5 release. Those with 1.5.3 or below already installed need only use Update Manager to "find updates for currently installed features". All-in-one zip files, SDKs, and minimal runtimes are also available from the download site as well as from member companies.

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The Eclipse Foundation is hosting a party for the Eclipse community at JavaOne. If you will be attending the conference, this is your opportunity to connect with other Eclipse fans and to have some fun. The party will happen Wednesday, May 9 from 7:00pm-10:00pm at Jillian’s (www.jilliansbilliards.com). This is just around the corner from the Moscone Center in the southwest corner of the Metreon. If you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to JavaOneParty@eclipse.org to be added to the guest list. We look forward to seeing you there!

Check out the new Eclipse Portal live.eclipse.org, its your stop for multi-media Eclipse related content. A bug has been opened to record feedback on the site.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the upcoming releases of the Eclipse C/C++ IDE (CDT) 4.0 and Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) projects. These Eclipse projects represent the core technology that is being developed for the embedded and device development community and have been widely adopted by organizations across the embedded and device software market.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced three new project milestones that extend the Eclipse platform for Ajax applications and dynamic languages. The three projects include the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) and the Eclipse Dynamic Language Toolkit (DLTK). These projects provide innovative new Eclipse-based technology to be utilized by Ajax developers and developers using dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby and Tcl.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the winners of its annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals, products and organizations in the Eclipse community. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony yesterday on the opening day of EclipseCon 2007.

EclipseCon 2007, the fourth annual Eclipse community conference, opens today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. Attendees from around the world are expected to hear the latest Eclipse developments and discuss key business and technical issues facing the community. Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, will give the opening keynote presentation. Additional keynote addresses will be delivered by Robert “r0ml� Lefkowitz, a noted enterprise architect and systems designer, and Dr.

Eclipse Foundation announced the results of the Add-in Provider and Committer elections for representatives to the board of directors.

The finalist have been announced for the Eclipse Community Awards. Winners will be announced March 5 at EclipseCon.

The deadline for EclipseCon early registration is February 14, 2007. Plan to register today.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of the Open Source Pavillion at EclipseCon 2007, March 5th-8th in Santa Clara, CA. The Open Source Pavilion will showcase open source projects that support and complement the spirit of the Eclipse community. ActiveGrid and Business Objects are co-sponsoring this event at EclipseCon.

There are two weeks left to qualify for the EclipseCon discounted early registration price. EclipseCon is the annual conference for the Eclipse community. It is a great opportunity to learn about over 70 different Eclipse projects. The complete conference program is now available on-line.
The conference takes place March 5-8 in Santa Clara Convention Center. The deadline for early registration is February 14, 2007.

The Bandit and Eclipse Higgins Projects today announced the achievement of a key milestone in the development of open source identity services. Based on working code from the two projects and the larger community of open source developers, the teams have created a reference application that showcases open source identity services that are interoperable with Microsoft’s Windows* CardSpace* identity management system and enable Liberty Alliance-based identity federation via Novell® Access Manager.

Looking to learn more about the different projects involved that make up Eclipse? We are running a series of free webinars to help you better understand how you can use the different Eclipse projects.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, today announced the release of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.0, a collection of extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for developing data-centric applications in the Eclipse environment. With DTP 1.0, developers can now easily leverage existing data sources, such as enterprise databases, within the extensible Eclipse Platform. Data-related applications are growing in significance, so this release meets an important development requirement in the software industry.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced that Actuate, BEA Systems, Business Objects, IBM and Klocwork have signed on as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2007, the annual conference that brings together the Eclipse community. Gold Sponsorship is the highest level of sponsorship for the conference. The third annual EclipseCon will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., March 5-8, 2007.

Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards are closing shortly on January 22, 2007. See http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/index.php for more information on the awards program and on how to submit a nomination.

The Eclipse Training Working Group has completed its survey of the community and the results are available at http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Training_Working_Group
The survey was responded to by over 600 people and although its not a truly scientific sample, it does provide some very good insights into the area of Eclipse training and education which should be useful to us all.
Thanks to all the people who contributed to the development of the survey, to the community members who participated, and especially to Donald Smith who supported the Working Group in using "Survey Monkey"