Announcements

The DemoCamps are continuing around the world, so remember to sign up for one in your city. Up next week: Boston on 6 June, Frankfurt on 7 June, Jakarta and Krakow on 11 June.

This year's themes are Eclipse Technology, Building Industry Solutions, Community and Collaboration, and Other. The submission deadline is August 17. EclipseCon Europe is three days of technical sessions, exhibits, and activities on November 2-4, in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

The Indigo release train is scheduled for June 22, 2011. To celebrate, we are encouraging individuals to support the Eclipse community by becoming a Friend of Eclipse. The goal is to have 500 new friends join by July 31.

To mark the upcoming Indigo Simultaneous Release, the Eclipse community is hosting DemoCamps in cities around the world during June, 2011. A typical DemoCamp includes refreshments and informal networking time, and features a series of short demos or presentations from developers building new and interesting solutions with Eclipse. For this series, we are particularly interested in hearing about your work with Indigo projects.

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates Chronon Systems, the winner of the first "Eclipse Hot New Products Showcase", held during EclipseCon 2011. Facing twenty other competitors, Chronon won with their "Time Travelling Debugger".

Formerly known as "Eclipse Summit Europe", EclipseCon Europe is the conference for anyone involved in Eclipse. As an Eclipse user, EclipseCon is where you will learn about the latest Eclipse products as well as picking up those valuable how-to tips from the experts and user groups. As an Eclipse developer, EclipseCon is where you collaborate with your colleages and do whiteboard planning for the next generation of APIs and features. As an Eclipse company, EclipseCon is the place to talk directly to your users and learn how to make the most compelling tools on the planet.

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the winners of the annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals, projects and technologies in the ecosystem. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony March 21 on the opening day of EclipseCon 2011.

I am pleased to announce the results of the 2011 Eclipse Foundation Board elections...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce that developers may now sign-up for access to a beta version of the OrionHub service, a hosted implementation of Orion. Orion is a new Eclipse initiative to define a platform for building and integrating web development tools. An early release of Orion provides web developers with an editor for JavaScript, HTML and CSS that runs in popular browsers and the ability to easily link with popular web-based tools.

EclipseCon 2011 starts in 1 week on March 21 in Santa Clara, CA. Make sure you register in advanced to take advantage of the best prices.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the IBM Watson project is coming to EclipseCon 2011. 'What is Watson' will be a keynote presentation featuring the technologies that power Watson.

The finalist for the Eclipse Community Awards 2011 have now been announced. Congratulations to all the nominees and finalists. Winners will be announced March 21 at EclipseCon 2011.

The Eclipse Helios service release, SR2, is now available for download. Updated packages are available on eclipse.org/downloads

The voting for the next Eclipse Foundation board members is now on. Voting will finish March 11 at 3pmET.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a special Eclipse Pavillion at the upcoming CeBIT trade show which will showcase technology and solutions available from the Eclipse community.

Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards are complete and voting has opened for the individual and project category nominees. Congratulations to all the worthy candidates!

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2011, the annual Eclipse community conference scheduled to be held March 21-24 in Santa Clara, CA. CloudSoft, IBM, Jasmine Conseil, Oracle, Sonatype and Xored have all agreed to be gold sponsors for the conference.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the technical program for EclipseCon 2011. The 4-day conference programm will feature 20 in-depth tutorials and over 100 sessions convering a wide range of topics, including Eclipse Modeling, OSGi, EclipseRT, mobile development, Eclipse 4 and much more.