The next couple of days I will be in Toulouse.
What's happening there?
On Wednesday, the Eclipse Auto and Polarsys Industry Working Groups will conduct their Face-To-Face meetings, in the morning they'll meet separately and in the afternoon they will get together. The most interesting topic of the joint meeting will be the progress made in the Automotive IWG's work package 5.
And then on Thursday I'll attend the Eclipse Day Toulouse, New Edition. Don't be afraid, I won't do a presentation, but my colleague Ian Skerrett will talk about 10 years of Eclipse and beyond.
Then technical talks all day, covering a variety of Eclipse related technical topics.
Hope we all will have a good time!
Monday, May 21, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Dear Friends of Eclipse
I cordially invite you to our Eclipse Demo Camp Juno (Summer 2012) series.
As every year, many organizations in Europe have volunteered to organize a demo camp in their city. Where and when? You find out on our Wiki page when the excitement comes to your town!
What is a Demo Camp?
It's an informal "After-Work" event, where you'll see a lot of code, and hardly any PowerPoint slides! Before, during and after the talks is enough time to network, have a drink and a bite to eat.
What is your role?
Well, you can either participate, listen, eat and drink and have a good time, or you can present what you have. Please add yourself to the respective wiki page or contact the local organizers to either register as a participant or as a speaker.
New and Noteworthy Locations
I'd like to point you to locations that don't have a long history yet. They need your participation, and they need the exciting community presenters, so please take a look and see if you want to come (only demo camps with fixed date and location):
As every year, many organizations in Europe have volunteered to organize a demo camp in their city. Where and when? You find out on our Wiki page when the excitement comes to your town!
What is a Demo Camp?
It's an informal "After-Work" event, where you'll see a lot of code, and hardly any PowerPoint slides! Before, during and after the talks is enough time to network, have a drink and a bite to eat.
What is your role?
Well, you can either participate, listen, eat and drink and have a good time, or you can present what you have. Please add yourself to the respective wiki page or contact the local organizers to either register as a participant or as a speaker.
New and Noteworthy Locations
I'd like to point you to locations that don't have a long history yet. They need your participation, and they need the exciting community presenters, so please take a look and see if you want to come (only demo camps with fixed date and location):
- Manchester (UK): http://wiki.eclipse.org/Manchester_Demo_Camp
- Illmenau (Germany): http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012/Ilmenau
- Nuremberg (Germany): http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012/Nuremberg
- Cluj-Napoca (Romania): http://wiki.eclipse.org/DemoCampCluj
I look forward to meeting many of you in May and June!
Ralph
Monday, April 23, 2012
May 2012 Schedule
Just took the time to go through my travel schedule for May.
An I get pretty excited, there's a whole lot of interesting events coming up!
While it is not really in May yet, I'm looking forward to traveling to Düsseldorf on Thursday, April 26 for the Eclipse evening of the Java User Group Düsseldorf. If you don't have plans for the evening yet, come and join us. You'll hear some from me (keep it short, Ralph) and then the more interesting technical program including talks about Eclipse 4 (the next big thing), XText (modeling magic) and the ALM / delivery productivity gains that you can experience with Eclipse technology. After the talks there shall be some beer, right?
Early May will get me to Italy. On May 2nd we are invited at an air-defense engineering school near Naples to speak about Open Source in general and Polarsys in particular to the staff there. Would be great if we can get them to join the Polarsys community.
On May 4th we will attend the Eclipse Day in Florence. The folks from RCP-Vision have put together a quite rich program for you. But really doubt that it was too hard to attract speakers to come to Florence in May :-)
From the 22nd to the 25th I will be in Toulouse. Here we have a lot of stuff going on: On the 23rd we'll have parallel meetings of the Automotive IWG and Polarsys, and on the 24th the next edition of the Eclipse Day Toulouse will take place.
As not all the information for Toulouse is available, please register to the Auto IWG - and the Polarsys mailing lists if you would like to know more about these events.
I look forward to meeting you.
PS: I was making my travel arrangements for Toulouse over the weekend. Be advised that the many hotels in the city are already sold out. You better move fast if you don't want to stay at the airport :-)
Thursday, March 22, 2012
One More Thing
Before I leave for EclipseCon tomorrow, I'd like to point you to -actually- a couple more things:
- The organizers of the Eclipse Day Toulouse have issued their call for sponsors and the call for papers
- The organizers of the Eclipse Integrated Development Day in Berlin have done the same
- And the organizers of the Eclipse Testing Day 2012 are also looking for sponsors and talks
So please contact them if you are interested in any of the subjects.
Then, quite a few companies have shown interest in organizing an Eclipse Financial Day around the October timeframe. Please contact Manuela Duft from compeople AG (or me, in case you don't have her email address) for further details.
And last, but not least: If you consider to organize a Juno demo camp in May/June, please let us know. You can send an email to democamps@eclipse.org.
See many of you in Reston!
Friday, March 16, 2012
Almost off to EclipseCon
Only a couple more nights to sleep, and then I will be off to EclipseCon 2012 in Resten, VA.
I'm pretty excited about going: A new venue, a new town (I have never been in the Washington area before) and quite a number of interesting talks. And a whole bunch of Europeans will be going to be there again, not to mention the special meetings that we were able to organize.
One we haven't talked much about yet: I'd like to invite you Europeans to have a beer with me on the 29th in the evening. I'm not sure about the location yet, so please add yourself to this Doodle poll. That would help me to find a proper place :-)
Don't forget that -as every year- we will check passports at the entrance to see if you qualify.
One more thing: If you can't wait to get an Eclipse beer, join us at the Eclipse Stammtisch Kaiserslautern. There's only a few seats left!
Ralph
I'm pretty excited about going: A new venue, a new town (I have never been in the Washington area before) and quite a number of interesting talks. And a whole bunch of Europeans will be going to be there again, not to mention the special meetings that we were able to organize.
One we haven't talked much about yet: I'd like to invite you Europeans to have a beer with me on the 29th in the evening. I'm not sure about the location yet, so please add yourself to this Doodle poll. That would help me to find a proper place :-)
Don't forget that -as every year- we will check passports at the entrance to see if you qualify.
One more thing: If you can't wait to get an Eclipse beer, join us at the Eclipse Stammtisch Kaiserslautern. There's only a few seats left!
Ralph
Sunday, March 4, 2012
CeBIT (Reloaded)
Just packing for CeBIT 2012, where you will find me for the next 6 days! But it won't just be the Eclipse Foundation, the Foundation will be joined by Actuate, BREDEX, EclipseSource, itemis, MicroSoft and TaskTop (see full press release).
We look forward to our brand-new booth that has been designed to give the visitor a good look at all the exhibitors. We will have really nice showcases, and we will have interesting offerings to show!
And if you are interested in learning more about the Eclipse Foundation, come on. I'm more than happy to talk to you about our latest initiatives like the Automotive Industry Working Group, the aerospace lead initiative PolarSys or our Long Term Support IWG.
Ralph
We look forward to our brand-new booth that has been designed to give the visitor a good look at all the exhibitors. We will have really nice showcases, and we will have interesting offerings to show!
And if you are interested in learning more about the Eclipse Foundation, come on. I'm more than happy to talk to you about our latest initiatives like the Automotive Industry Working Group, the aerospace lead initiative PolarSys or our Long Term Support IWG.
Ralph
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Automotive Industry Working Group News
I wanted to take the opportunity and inform you about things going on in the Eclipse Auto-IWG. We had a face-2-face meeting in Stuttgart at ETAS GmbH. We have made a lot of progress with the work packages as you can see from the meeting minutes and the updates made on the wiki.
In addition, we were listing to presentations from Stefan Voget (Continental) about EATOP, a potential Eclipse project implementing EAST-ADL, a presentation from Bosch India on an OSEE for Automotive package that they have created and finally from Oscar Slotosch from Validas in Germany on tool qualification. All the presentations are already available or will be made available at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Auto_IWG#Documents.
I'm also very pleased to welcome Validas AG from Munich, Germany and The Virtual Vehicle Competence Center from Graz, Austria as new Solution Members to the Eclipse Foundation. They have expressed strong interest in participating in the AutoIWG, and we are very happy to have their industry know-how and experience on board.
Is Eclipse important to Automotive and is Automotive important in Eclipse? Looking at the program of the upcoming EclipseCon in Reston, Virginia, I note that Ford's "What's next guy, Mr. Prasad and Peter Semmelhack, founder of Bug Labs will talk in their keynote presentation about the App Development Platform of the future car.
And in the 'normal' program, I can also find quite a number of talks that are of interest to the automotive crowd.
And last but not least, we will have an 'automotive meeting' at EclipseCon. Please add yourself to this Doodle poll if you are interested in participating or presenting.
Ralph
In addition, we were listing to presentations from Stefan Voget (Continental) about EATOP, a potential Eclipse project implementing EAST-ADL, a presentation from Bosch India on an OSEE for Automotive package that they have created and finally from Oscar Slotosch from Validas in Germany on tool qualification. All the presentations are already available or will be made available at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Auto_IWG#Documents.
I'm also very pleased to welcome Validas AG from Munich, Germany and The Virtual Vehicle Competence Center from Graz, Austria as new Solution Members to the Eclipse Foundation. They have expressed strong interest in participating in the AutoIWG, and we are very happy to have their industry know-how and experience on board.
Is Eclipse important to Automotive and is Automotive important in Eclipse? Looking at the program of the upcoming EclipseCon in Reston, Virginia, I note that Ford's "What's next guy, Mr. Prasad and Peter Semmelhack, founder of Bug Labs will talk in their keynote presentation about the App Development Platform of the future car.
And in the 'normal' program, I can also find quite a number of talks that are of interest to the automotive crowd.
And last but not least, we will have an 'automotive meeting' at EclipseCon. Please add yourself to this Doodle poll if you are interested in participating or presenting.
Ralph
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