tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33980289442476402092024-03-12T20:15:57.400-07:00Eclipse Eco SystemNews from the Eclipse Eco SystemAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-17046278412219128362015-02-01T22:00:00.000-08:002015-02-17T00:02:53.128-08:00Eclipse at embedded world 2015<a href="https://www.embedded-world.de/en/" target="_blank">Embedded World</a> is only a few weeks away, and I'm getting really excited about it. For the first time, the Eclipse Foundation, together with its partners and working groups, will have a presence at the conference. From February 24 - 26 we will be present in Nuremberg at one of the biggest embedded conferences in the world!<br />
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For this year, we have the following member companies of the Eclipse Foundation joining us:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a>, Germany</li>
<li><a href="http://www.obeo.fr/en/" target="_blank">Obeo</a>, France</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bitreactive.com/" target="_blank">Bitreactive AS</a>, Norway</li>
<li><a href="http://www.logicals.com/en/" target="_blank">logicals GmbH</a>, Austria</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sierrawireless.com/" target="_blank">Sierra Wireless</a>, France</li>
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In addition to this group, the <a href="http://polarsys.org/" target="_blank">Polarsys Working Group</a> will join the show as well as participants from the ITEA <a href="https://itea3.org/project/amalthea4public.html" target="_blank">Amalthea4Public</a> project that the Eclipse Foundation is part of.</div>
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If you are going to Nuremberg, make sure to stop by at our pavilion. You will find us in Hall 4, booth 160 that we share with our friends from OSADL. We look forward to seeing you there!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-65750676000886111672014-11-28T04:59:00.001-08:002014-11-28T04:59:21.137-08:00Simply the BestMy dear colleague Roxanne has assembled the list of the top-ten talks from <a href="https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2014/" target="_blank">EclipseCon Europe 2014</a>.<br />
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<span class="s1">1. What every Eclipse developer should know about Eclipse 4 (e4)</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Jonas Helming and Eugen Neufeld</span></div>
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<span class="s1">2. Stop clicking, be productive – Exploiting postfix templates</span></div>
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<span class="s1">3. New and Noteworthy in Xtend</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Sebastian Zarnekow and Stefan Oehme</span></div>
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<span class="s1">5. How to cook an egg with the Eclipse Communication Framework and Nebula.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">7. Enhanced Tooling for Modern Eclipse Plugin Development</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Mikael Barbero</span></div>
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<span class="s1">8. Oomph: Automatically Provision a Project-specific IDE</span></div>
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<span class="s1">9. 10 Platforms in 30 minutes - powered by Eclipse</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel</span></div>
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<span class="s1">10. Building Business UIs with EMF Forms</span></div>
Maximilian Koegel<br />
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Looks like the team prize goes to <a href="http://eclipsesource.com/en/about/company/eclipsesource-munich/" target="_blank">EclipseSource Munich</a>. Congrats, team!<br />
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If you missed the talks, refer to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/EclipseFdn" target="_blank">Youtube channel</a>. Uploading of the talks continues!<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-63353002686946194782014-11-07T05:23:00.002-08:002014-11-07T05:23:22.861-08:00EclipseCon Europe 2014 by CountriesEclipseCon Europe 2014 - I liked it. Not sure what others think, but I <b>really</b> liked it! In any case we will diligently evaluate our <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/econeurope2014" target="_blank">attendee survey</a> (Hint: In case you haven't done it yet, please do so). And as always, we will publish the results.<br />
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One interesting piece of data was the attendance by country that my colleague Roxanne has put together. It shows that we are not just a German conference, but a truly European and international one. German attendance is still above 50%. But as the number of attendees was growing again by a good percentage to 600, so was the number of attendees from other countries. Here is the graph that Roxanne was putting together:<br />
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So I thought I should tell <a href="http://blog.resheim.net/" target="_blank">Torkild</a> that Norway is really moving up in the ranking. And after he has discussed with his resident scientist buddies he came back with an even more astonishing revelation: Based on their approach Norway is actually on the second rank! And here is what they discovered: If you compute the per-capita attendance, the ranking looks like this:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-15998476025620152992014-08-06T07:27:00.002-07:002014-08-06T07:27:27.448-07:00Eclipse IoT Playground @ EclipseCon Europe 2014<div class="p1">
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In the last couple of years Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the hottest topic in the computer industries. In the Eclipse community, we are seeing new projects appear, companies starting new businesses on IoT technologies, talks and workshops at our conferences and more and more individuals presenting their cool stuff.</div>
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With the IoT playground we create a place at <a href="http://eclipsecon-europe.org/"><span class="s1">EclipseCon Europe</span></a> where everybody is invited to show what they are doing. This can be companies presenting their IoT related offerings (hardware, software, tools and gadgets) or individuals showing their stuff that they for home and fun. Everything goes, as long as it doesn’t offend others!</div>
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We expect to see demonstrations, programming or soldering challenges, or other cool ideas that you might come up with. </div>
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Please redistribute this email if you know somebody who might be interested to participate.</div>
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Regards / Liebe Grüße,</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-75897241829405662232014-03-25T06:52:00.000-07:002014-03-25T06:52:40.242-07:00My EclipseCon NA 2014I arrived early in San Francisco and had the weekend off, hanging around the Hyatt hotel and getting some exercise in - notably going to the driving range close by with <a href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/author/jhelming/" target="_blank">Jonas</a>. Aside from that, all the early arrivers got some exposure to the republican convention that was taking place over the weekend.<br />
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The actual conference was a really nice experience. The Hyatt provides nice space, the space for the exhibitors was well put together. The quality of the keynotes was by far better than in 2013 (this is my personal opinion). In particular, I enjoyed <a href="http://2renaissance.org/" target="_blank">Hans-Jürgen Kugler's</a> keynote demanding a creative society to drive the 4th industrial revolution. For all those who missed the keynote: You'll find the recordings of all keynotes soon on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/EclipseFdn" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation's Youtube channel</a>.<br />
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Most of the time I was busy with promoting our Long-Term Support working group. Just in time for the conference, we were able to overhaul the content for the <a href="http://lts.eclipse.org/" target="_blank">LTS website</a> and get the <a href="http://marketplace.eclipse.org/category/markets/http%3A/marketplace.eclipse.org/taxonomy/term/3429/title" target="_blank">Long-Term Support marketplace started</a> with now 7 companies offering LTS for various projects. At the conference we were conducting an outreach session with 20+ people attending, and we had good conversations at the poster session on Thursday.<br />
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No EclipseCon NA would be complete without a European night. And that's what we did on Thursday night: You rarely see so many Canadians that try to convince you that all their ancestors have just come over from the good old world :-)<br />
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Now it's over, and it's time to get excited about <a href="https://www.eclipsecon.org/france2014/" target="_blank">EclipseCon France 2014</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-50224024258550287432014-02-27T01:10:00.000-08:002014-02-27T01:10:24.837-08:00Call for participation!The Eclipse Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year´s Google Summer of Code!<br />
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We are very happy to have been chosen for the ninth time in a row. This year is the 10th anniversary of GSoC and the Google Team is marking the occasion by accepting10% more mentoring organizations and 10% more students.<br />
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The role of the Eclipse Foundation is to act as an umbrella organization for the Eclipse projects. We have again a very interesting mix of project ideas. For the first time there are project ideas from our Working Groups, Locationtech and IoT (Internet of Things).<br />
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The Google Summer of Code is a program designed to encourage university students to participate in open source software development.<br />
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Students have a opportunity over the summer to get hands on experience at open source coding, without compromising their time with a summer job that is unrelated to their field of studies. Also, students will gain insight into the real world of software development. At the end of the summer Google grants a total of 5500 USD to every student who passes all exams.<br />
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For more information check out:<br />
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Check out the project ideas:<br />
<a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014">https://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014</a><br />
<a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas">https://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas</a><br />
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And if you have questions meet us on the mailing list: soc-dev@eclipse.org.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16377804238314293600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-75650853760326132512013-10-15T09:08:00.001-07:002013-10-15T09:08:08.500-07:00Two More Weeks To EclipseCon Europe 2013Yes, we've only a few days left before meeting again in Ludwigsburg.<br />
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All preparation work has been done, and for the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/staff.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation team</a> we can just wait how it goes after working for 8 long months on preparing the conference. But believe me, we have prepared well. <br />
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The registration numbers look good. I'm pretty confident that we will reach the numbers, which would then be another growth compared to last year's ECE. Some of the Tuesday tutorials are getting the recognition that they deserve, some are even fully booked. If you have not chosen your tutorial yet, you better hurry!<br />
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The mix of talks that the program committee together with the folks from the <a href="http://www.osgi.org/Main/HomePage" target="_blank">OSGi PC</a> have chosen is again very high quality, the keynotes sound exceptional and the side events are pretty outstanding! It was very educational to watch Christian Campo and his program committee interact with the keynote speakers and the people submitting talks. While they still had to reject many of them, they made sure that everybody got a good explanation why it happened and what can be improved in the future.<br />
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In the fun department we are able to bring back the <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2013/ece-fun-page" target="_blank">Circus and the Band </a>to EclipseCon Europe. A big thank you to the sponsors <a href="http://www.sap.com/index.epx" target="_blank">SAP</a> and <a href="http://www.bsiag.com/" target="_blank">BSI AG</a> for making this possible. Apropos sponsors: While we received a couple of downgrades and late cancelations from sponsors/exhibitors, we were able to reach our goals and thus guarantee good food, coffee and some free alcoholic beverages for the evening events.<br />
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And some random notes from me:<br />
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I'm really proud about the improvements that we have made to <a href="http://www.eclipsecon-europe.org/" target="_blank">EclipseCon Europe website</a>. I think it's a lot more informative than it used to be, we have added a whole bunch of information and we will do so next year as well. Special thanks go to our designer Markus from Munich: I would even reference his website here if he had one :)<br />
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As an experiment for 2013, we have offered special slots during the days to certain 'interest groups'. It will be like the good old poster sessions, mixed in for a couple of hours during the day. As I write, we'll have reps from <a href="http://lts.eclipse.org/" target="_blank">Long Term Support (LTS)</a> working group, <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Science_IWG" target="_blank">folks that want to speak about scientific components</a> and people presenting projects that have been created just recently or are in proposal state!<br />
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If you are interested what is going on in our <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/industry-workgroups/" target="_blank">Working Groups</a> make sure that you attend the face-to-face meetings that are taking place on Monday, October 28 in the Forum as well. Meetings include the Automotive Working Group, Polarsys and the M2M Working Group.<br />
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With that, I finish. I have to go and check with our real-time registration system what the news of the last 15 minutes are.<br />
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RalphAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-56011178794465560452013-08-26T07:53:00.000-07:002013-08-26T07:53:29.315-07:00While we are waitingJust a few days ago the we were closing the submission system for <a href="http://eclipsecon-europe.org/" target="_blank">EclipseCon Europe 2013</a>. We got well over 240 submissions, and now the program committee under its fearless leader Christian Campo is at work, sorting out which talks will make the program. I don't envy the team for this job. They are the ones that will have to send rejection letters to a large number of people that have taken time and energy to submit their talk.<br />
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But we should know in a couple of days!<br />
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But what to do until then? I thought I'd point out some other things about ECE that we already know :-)<br />
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First of all, we have worked on the website quite a lot. I personally like the new look, it reminds me of some time back that I have fond memories of ... And we have added a few new pages as well. For the people that land on our page by accident (for example after a google search for 'cool conference europe eclipse' we are now giving them some background, explaining that we have noting to do with some teenie movies. We also provide you some information for you boss: You can actually copy and paste the "Why should you go" paragraph from <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2013/about-eclipsecon-europe" target="_blank">this section</a>.<br />
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You might not really want to show him the <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2013/ece-fun-page" target="_blank">Fun page</a>. Because it shows that we have the circus coming again, and we have the band playing again as well. He might want to go instead of you.<br />
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So the motto for 2013 shall be: Come to ECE. If you bring your boss, you get 10% discount on both tickets :-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-63230934663626895932013-04-24T22:39:00.001-07:002013-04-24T22:39:27.493-07:00The Sad SongIt's happening again. The acceptance emails for <a href="http://www.eclipsecon-france.org/">EclipseCon Franc</a>e went out. That is good news, and I can see that we'll have a lot of fun in Toulouse. The boys in the program committee have made good choices and put together a <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/france2013/program/sessions">fine list of talks</a> that we will listen to in June.<br />
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The really sad part is to see the link just next to it, the <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/france2013/program/sessions/declined">talks that were not accepted</a>. I just went through this list and noticed that there are so many where I actually encouraged the folks to write it up and submit it.<br />
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For example, I remember that I visited the good people at Fortiss in Munich. I visited their labs earlier this year and was (and still am) excited about all the things that they develop with Eclipse. And they were excited when we talked about Toulouse. <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/france2013/sessions/4diac-framework-distributed-industrial-automation-and-control">One of the talks</a> made it into the program.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/france2013/sessions/using-eclipse-building-prosumer-node-smart-grids">other one</a> (actually about one of my favorite subjects) got rejected. Alois, I look forward to meeting you in Toulouse. Dagmar, I hope that you come to Toulouse nevertheless. It would be great.<br />
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But here is an idea. All you organizers of demo camps should carefully study the list of rejected talks. They are about great topics (just look at <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/france2013/sessions/control-system-studio-%E2%80%93-open-source-platform-manage-control-systems">this talk here</a> you demo campers in northern Germany), and I believe the rejected list is a gold mine for you! And rejected people, don't feel bad. I want you to submit to the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Kepler_2013" target="_blank">demo camps</a> and yes, well, <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2013/">EclipseCon Europe</a> is not to far away.<br />
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The happy song goes like this: We will do great in Toulouse. And we will have more space in 2014. And we will have a bigger program. And we will have more submissions ...<br />
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Darn, I see another sad song coming my way.<br />
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One last thing: Can I ask all you speakers for a little favor. Please change your Facebook and Twitter picture and your <a href="http://gravatar.com/" target="_blank">Gravatar logo</a> for a couple of days to the speaker logo and help us to promote the conference.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Deutschland52.519171 13.40609119999999252.209891 12.760644199999991 52.828451 14.051538199999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-70798765054283294042012-11-14T03:46:00.000-08:002012-11-14T03:46:56.818-08:00Devoxx AntwerpArrived yesterday evening in Antwerp, check in, take a walk. The area in the neighborhood (south-side) wasn't too lively, hope that the downtown area provides more fun. What I've seen from downtown on other visits was actually quite amazing. Just coming in by train is an experience, waling up the stairs in that wonderfully architected train station.<br />
<br /><a href="http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV12/Home" target="_blank">Devoxx</a> is great. Sold out with 3´500 attendees and a good line-up of partners it shows me that Java is not dead. I feel that I'm pretty much the oldest person here, close to double the age as the average attendee age. Having the conference hosted in a large movie theater is great for good audio and video all over the place.<br />
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The organizers have made a great effort in 'electrifying' the conference. Custom made electronic voting machines that go with your NFC arm band, stand-up terminals for the program (sponsored by Oracle as it looks like), TV-screens everywhere with the latest announcements, , movie evening with the new <a href="http://www.skyfall-movie.com/site/" target="_blank">James Bond movie Skyfall.</a> Looks like they have vast resources to put into lovely things.<br />
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Some things are too colorful and to fast for me. But I guess it's ok for the kids. Oh - and not to forget: The program is packed, and so are the rooms. Folks I talk to seem to think that the program is pretty good! They don't even mind the bad sandwiches. <br />
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So the concept works. It actually seems to work well enough that it got exported to France. And we'll also see a Devoxx UK next year, as I understand. Congratulations to <a href="http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV12/Stephan+Janssen" target="_blank">Stephan Jansen</a> and his team. What started as a JUG event has become a great series of conferences!<br />
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I also feel sad around the conference though. There's only one talk on the program about Eclipse. Working for the Eclipse Foundation I wonder what happened. Have we lost the contact to the Java community?<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-86127605914939430822012-11-12T01:06:00.000-08:002012-11-12T01:06:03.540-08:00Eclipse Demo Camps Fall 2012Just looked at the Eclipse Demo Camp site on our wiki to make my travel arrangements for the fall. Because the demo camp season is coming up!<br />
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So here is what I'm going to do, applying some optimization algorithm of my own. I will start with <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2012/Dresden" target="_blank">demo camp Dresden</a> on the 20th. This will give me enough time on the train to do all my email that is still lingering from EclipsCon in my inbox. Going back from Dresden, I will stop in Braunschweig and attend the <a href="http://www.bredex.de/web/index.php/event_en/events/eclipse-stammtisch-in-braunschweig.html" target="_blank">Bredex party, a demo camp in disguise</a>. Now I would have loved to go to <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2012/Poland" target="_blank">Poznan</a> afterwards, but due to a personal appointment that I cannot move I have to skip. But I'll try next year!<br />
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The week after, I'm definitely going to the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2012/Kassel" target="_blank">Yatta demo camp</a> Kassel in the wonderful <a href="http://www.rambazotti.de/" target="_blank">Circus Rambazotti</a>, and I'm toying with the idea to go to <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2012/Berlin" target="_blank">Fraunhofer Berlin</a> as well. But I'm not sure yet if this works out!<br />
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The week of December 2nd you'll meet me in Munich at the EclipseSource demo camp, where Max and Jonas will put on a great party I hope. Including some fun that involves a Kinect.<br />
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Now what about you? Have you made all your plans? Go find you demo camp, it's fun. Look up the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2012" target="_blank">list on our wiki and register</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-11227085040101851502012-10-22T04:51:00.002-07:002012-10-22T04:51:41.197-07:00ECE 2012: Starting SoonJust arrived in Ludwigsburg a couple of hours ago. Weather is great, the trees ave the fall colors, temperature is very nice. A golden October day.<br />
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At the Ludwigsburg Forum, the staff is tearing down from a industry show that ended last night. While the current status doesn't create a lot of confidence that we'll be all set in another 12 hours, I have seen it now many times, and to my surprise they managed to get everything set up just fine and in time.<br />
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People are starting to arrive in the Nestor hotel next to the Forum. Most of them have been attending before, but just a minute ago I ran into a guy from the US. It's his first time in Germany and obviously the first EclipseCon Europe. He's trying to hide his excitement - or is he feeling a little overwhelmed? In the hallway the packages that the sponsors sent in are piling up.<br />
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So, in a couple of hours we will start. I believe we got a good program, we have the folks from the OSGi community invited, and we got some good social activities planned for the evenings. Food's usually good, beer will be served. And my Adrenalin level is going down.<br />
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I'm hoping for a good conference.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-12957712358670567762012-10-07T15:35:00.000-07:002012-10-07T22:02:37.353-07:00Saying "No" NicelyEclipseCon Europe 2012 starts in about two weeks, and lots of attendees are figuring out which talks to add to their personal ECE schedules. There are lots of great talks, so it's not easy. But it's one of those "good problems" to have.<br />
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Another good problem the ECE program committee had back in July was deciding which talks to accept from among so many excellent submissions. <i>Accepting</i> talks is the most obvious task of a program committee. <i>Declining</i> talks -- carefully and thoughtfully -- is less obvious, but even more important.<br />
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Anyone who's had a talk declined knows it's disappointing, and that can't be avoided. But declining talks <i>well</i> can prevent a disappointed submitter from turning into a demoralized submitter who won't try again.<br />
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This year's ECE program committee left comments on every declined submission, explaining why it was not accepted. They answered a lot of follow-up questions to provide more detail. This task was considered essential, and the accept/decline emails didn't go out until all the comments were added.<br />
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The expectation -- and hope -- is that by declining talks well, we encourage new submitters to try again, and keep our EclipseCon content fresh and interesting.<br />
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A joint team from the Eclipse Foundation and the OPEES project has been working on preparing all the materials needed for the group to get started. For instance, the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/industry-workgroups/polarsys_charter.php" target="_blank">charter</a> of the IWG and the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/industry-workgroups/IWG_Participation_Agreement.pdf" target="_blank">participation agreement</a> have been negotiated and approved.<br />
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In late spring, we were able to start the acquisition of participants. Today I would like to welcome the companies that have signed the agreements and now constitute the founding members of the Polarsys IWG:<br />
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<li>Airbus, steering committee member</li>
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Now that we have reached critical mass, the time has come to take the next steps. Information on these activities is available in the <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/polarsys-iwg" target="_blank">Polarsys mailing list</a> as well as on the <a href="http://polarsys.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Polarsys blog</a>. The next face-to-face o meeting of the group is planned for October 22nd in Ludwigsburg, Germany.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-38388651958025219512012-06-20T01:27:00.002-07:002012-06-20T01:27:44.454-07:00My Demo Camps Week-of-June-18Wednesday: <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012/Walldorf" target="_blank">SAP Walldorf</a>, with happy hour :-)<br />
Thursday: <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012/Munich" target="_blank">Siemens and EclipseSource Munich</a>, good food and drinks as well<br />
Friday: <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012/Zurich" target="_blank">BSI Zurich</a>, would be surprised if there wasn't any food and beer in the informal part<br />
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Thanks to all the organizersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-31463758629685229432012-06-14T10:07:00.001-07:002012-06-14T10:07:11.221-07:00Better than Soccer?Just hopping from demo camp to demo camp. Last week it was Ilmenau and Nuremberg, this week it's Kassel and Hamburg (where I am right now).<br />
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Nuremberg and Ilmenau are new. So it was to be expected that they were not too crowded. True for Ilmenau, but the planners in Nuremberg didn't have enough chairs.<br />
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As every year, I'm learning a lot. Not just about Eclipse technology. But also about the fact that people come to the demo camps despite of the competing European Soccer championship. I had expected that people actually would drop out and watch soccer rather than listening to <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/" target="_blank">XText</a> or <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/recommenders/" target="_blank">Code Recommender</a> talks.<br />
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Now to be fair: The demo camp here in Hamburg was originally planned for yesterday. Only when the planners found out that the game Germany - Netherlands was scheduled for the same evening, they wisely changed to today. And I'm really grateful. I would have had a bad conflict!<br />
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So now everybody won: The demo camp in the nice Speicherstadt location has about 80 participants. I could watch the Germans win 2:1 yesterday. The only people who actually lost was the Dutch team. Oh well ...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-59408236971406564012012-06-11T03:45:00.001-07:002012-06-11T03:46:12.017-07:00If I had a free wish today ...What would I want? That some wizard shows up here in my little office in Zwingenberg and helps me to install the <a href="https://github.com/Freeseer/freeseer/wiki" target="_blank">FOSSLC recording software</a> on my notebook.<br />
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Why? We could do some many wonderful recordings of all the interesting sessions happening at the Eclipse Demo Camp series. As an example, look at the recordings from the <a href="http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/category/event/eclipse-democamp-ilmenau" target="_blank">Eclipse Demo Camp in Ilmenau</a> last week.<br />
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Boy, would that be cool.<br />
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<a href="http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/" target="_blank">Dear FOSSLCs</a> - when do we get a version for the Mac?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-79315193800110711162012-06-03T09:48:00.001-07:002012-06-03T09:51:16.326-07:00Schedule June 4 - 15Demo camp season is now starting for real.<br />
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On Monday, June 4th I'll be traveling to Leipzig, where I was invited to talk about Open Source Software at the university of Leipzig. Then I'll figure out how to get from Leipzig to Ilmenau for the first I<a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012/Ilmenau" target="_blank">lmenau Eclipse demo</a> camp on the 5th. In case you've never been in Ilmenau: It a nice university town in the middle of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringian_Forest" target="_blank"> Thuringian forest </a>, a quite attractive area in the new provinces. <br />
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On the 6th I'll attend another first, the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012/Nuremberg" target="_blank">Juno demo camp in Nuremberg</a>. Both demo camps have between 20 and 30 people registered at the time of writing. It would be great if you could drop by too!<br />
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On Wednesday, the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Auto_IWG" target="_blank">Eclipse Auto</a> and <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Polarsys" target="_blank">Polarsys Industry Working Groups</a> 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 <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Auto_IWG#WP5:_Eclipse_Qualification_Kit_.28ISO26262.29" target="_blank">work package 5</a>.<br />
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And then on Thursday I'll attend the <a href="http://www.eclipsedaytoulouse.com/" target="_blank">Eclipse Day Toulouse</a>, 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.<br />
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Then technical talks all day, covering a variety of Eclipse related technical topics.<br />
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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 <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012" target="_blank">Wiki page</a> when the excitement comes to your town!<br />
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What is a Demo Camp?<br />
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.<br />
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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.<br />
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New and Noteworthy Locations<br />
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):<br />
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<li>Manchester (UK): http://wiki.eclipse.org/Manchester_Demo_Camp</li>
<li>Illmenau (Germany): http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012/Ilmenau</li>
<li>Nuremberg (Germany): http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Juno_2012/Nuremberg</li>
<li>Cluj-Napoca (Romania): http://wiki.eclipse.org/DemoCampCluj</li>
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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 <a href="http://www.rheinjug.de/">Java User Group Düsseldorf</a>. 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?</div>
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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 <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/polarsys">Polarsys</a> in particular to the staff there. Would be great if we can get them to join the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/polarsys">Polarsys</a> community.</div>
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On May 4th we will attend the <a href="http://www.rcp-vision.com/?page_id=1938&lang=en">Eclipse Day in Florence</a>. The folks from <a href="http://www.rcp-vision.com/">RCP-Vision</a> 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 :-)</div>
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<li>The organizers of the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=Eclipse_IDD_2012">Eclipse Integrated Development Day</a> in Berlin have done the same</li>
<li>And the organizers of the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Testing_Day_2012">Eclipse Testing Day 2012</a> are also looking for sponsors and talks</li>
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See many of you in Reston!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-5363165261785671812012-03-16T00:19:00.002-07:002012-03-16T00:19:41.356-07:00Almost off to EclipseConOnly a couple more nights to sleep, and then I will be off to <a href="http://eclipsecon.org/">EclipseCon 2012</a> in Resten, VA.<br />
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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.<br />
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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 <a href="http://www.doodle.com/i4wsrw9ifahesugu">this Doodle poll</a>. That would help me to find a proper place :-)<br />
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Don't forget that -as every year- we will check passports at the entrance to see if you qualify.<br />
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One more thing: If you can't wait to get an Eclipse beer, join us at the <a href="https://www.xing.com/events/eclipse-stammtisch-867546">Eclipse Stammtisch Kaiserslautern</a>. There's only a few seats left!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603937593680178347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398028944247640209.post-64913954953922851132012-03-04T06:15:00.000-08:002012-03-04T06:15:45.905-08:00CeBIT (Reloaded)Just packing for <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2012</a>, where you will find me for the next 6 days! But it won't just be the <a href="http://www.cebit.de/aussteller/eclipse-foundation/L725057">Eclipse Foundation</a>, the Foundation will be joined by Actuate, BREDEX, EclipseSource, itemis, MicroSoft and TaskTop (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120229_eclipse_member_showcase_solutions.php">see full press release</a>).<br />
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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!<br />
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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 <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Auto_IWG">Automotive Industry Working Group</a>, the aerospace lead initiative <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Polarsys">PolarSys</a> or our <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/LTS">Long Term Support IWG</a>.<br />
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