Showing posts with label Eclipse Eco System. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eclipse Eco System. Show all posts

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Better 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).

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.

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 XText or Code Recommender talks.

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!

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 ...

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

Monday, November 21, 2011

Welcome Open Source Software Learning Centre e.V. to the Eclipse Foundation

I'm very pleased to welcome FOSSLC Germany e.V. to the Eclipse Foundation as an associate member.

As FOSSLC describes itself:

FOSSLC e.V. is a non-profit organization with the purpose of spreading knowledge and awareness of open source and open standards by organizing and hosting free-of-charge workshops and talks to give everybody the chance to engage with these technologies.

Since 2008, FOSSLC e.V. is hosting events on topics such as LInux, Java, Python, TeX, SSL/PGP and many more with the help from reputable speakers from universities and open source related businesses.

The Eclipse Foundation is very grateful to FOSSLC e.V. for having recorded the 2011 edition of EclipseCon Europe for us. Having the recordings of pretty much every talk available at the FOSSLC site is a great thing for the community!

I look forward to working with FOSSLC e.V. in the future, visiting Ilmenau for mutual events and having them attend and record many more Eclipse related session!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Two more days

All is set and organized, I was told by the fabulous Anne Jacko yesterday evening.

The registration numbers numbers look all right, I was told by Anne as well.

The EclipseCon band - well I called and all members are healthy, the current flu epidemic that has hit my town didn't get to them.

Wireless seems to be better than ever, Anne tells me.

So it looks like everything is in good order.

But still, I'm sort of nervous.

Ralph

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Welcome the University of Milano Bicocca to the Eclipse Foundation

I would like to welcome our new associate member University of Milano Bicocca.

The department of computer science has for many years contributed interesting research based on Eclipse technology, we have met at several occasions.

In 2011, the DISC has also been the host of the Academic Eclipse Day Italy where I had the honor to be invited as a speaker.

I appreciate all the work that the universities throughout Italy do in the Eclipse eco system and I hope to see more of their research become available in products and open source projects.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

September Starting

Just sitting in the train and looking at my calendar for the month, which will be pretty busy and exciting! Here just a few highlights to consider for yourself:

On the 7th we start with the Eclipse Testing Day in Neuss, Germany. What I hear is that there are still a few tickets available.

On September 13th the meeting of the Automotive Industry comes up in Frankfurt, Germany. Check out the Auto IWG Wiki for more information!

In the second half of the month it gets pretty busy as well. In parallel I will attend the 6th Eclipse Day Italy in Milan, Italy (22-23rd) and the 2011 edition of the Open World Forum in Paris, France. Quite a schedule for that week. Too bad, I would have loved to stay a little longer in both cities!

Meanwhile we continue to work on EclipseCon Europe 2011. As you might have seen, we have all the keynote speakers lined up and are just finishing the program, which should be online in a week or two. One thing I can already tell you: It looks like we will have a pretty exciting 10th anniversary event for the Eclipse eco system.

Ralph

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Announcing Eclipse Testing Day 2011

We're pleased to announce that the agenda for the second Eclipse Testing Day has been published, and that registration is now open!

When is the Testing Day?

The Eclipse Testing Day is a whole-day event on the 7th September 2011 in the Commundo Tagungshotel in Humboldtstraße 2, 41468 Neuss, Germany.

What's in it for me?

This year we have eight talks over the course of the day. Topics range from acceptance testing and usability testing to build processes and test processes (requirements, test case definition…). In short, if you’re looking for a chance to hear from the experts for testing, test processes, and the tools and technology that go hand in hand with them, then you should come along!

Alongside the talks you’ll also have the chance to chat to our sponsors and see what they have to offer in terms of testing and process. BREDEX are grateful to all of our co-sponsors and supporters – including the Eclipse Foundation, Xored, GFB Softwareentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, sepp.med, ASQF, EclipseSource, Testing Experience Magazine and Professional Tester Magazine.

How do I register?

Registration is open now via our Eventbrite site (http://eclipsetestingday2011.eventbrite.com). Tickets cost 40€ for members of the Eclipse Foundation or the ASQF, and 50€ for non-members. We also have a limited number of student tickets at a reduced price. The ticket cost includes catering on the day.

If you have any questions about the Eclipse Testing Day, don't hesitate to get in touch with info (at) bredex (dot) de. We look forward to to seeing you in Neuss on the 7th September!

The Eclipse Testing Day is organized by Bredex.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Eclipse Embedded Day and Open Forum

I would like to point you to an extraordinary conference that is coming up.

On July 12 and 13, the Open Forum Stuttgart will provide a very good program trends in the systems engineering industry.

We were able to merge the Eclipse Embedded Day together with 2 other conferences and were able to create an exciting program with great speakers from the industry.

The keynotes are presented by:

  • Dr. Willibert Schleuter, former head of electronics development, Audi AG
  • Harald Hönninger, head of research for software intensive systems, Robert Bosch GmbH
  • Mike Millinkovich, CEO, Eclipse Foundation
  • Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy, Technical University of Munich

Ralph

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Welcome Verit GmbH to the Eclipse Foundation

verit Informationssysteme GmbH has just recently joined the Eclipse Foudation as a Solution Member.

The Kaiserslautern, Germany based company develops software for Java and Eclipse and is renown as an expert for quality assurance and testing of software systems.

In addition, verit GmbH offer tools to support test automation and test management: While PETA is testing on the protocol-level, KLAROS can be used for test data acquisition and analysis.

In addition, verit engineers have just become an active contributor to TPTP.

We look forward to having verit participating in the Eclipse Eco System.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Eclipse @ CeBIT 2011

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

Eclipse Foundation members Actuate, Bredex, EclipseSource, *instinctools, itemis, Talend and Tasktop Technologies will participate in the Pavillion and showcase many diverse technologies such as BI, testing, provisioning, runtimes, documentation, data integration and task integration.

CeBIT is one of the largest IT industry trade shows, being held March 1-5, 2011 in Hannover, Germany.

The Eclipse Pavillon is located in Hall 2.

We all look forward to meeting you there.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Welcome ZeroTurnaround to the Eclipse Foundation

ZeroTurnaround OÜ has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member.

The company, based in Tartu, Estonia and Prague, Czech Republic, is committed to making Java more productive by building innovative, cutting-edge productivity technologies that lower expenses and overhead for Java teams.

Simplifying both the development and production processes with unique Rebel Technology(tm), JRebel and LiveRebel integrate directly into the JVMs, application servers and development tools of the world’s leading financial, web application, and technology firms.

The flagship product is called JRebel, which allows Java developers to see changes to their code instantly without redeploying. With surveys showing that an average of 17% of each coding hour is lost due to unnecessary container restarts, JRebel has grown into a Java development productivity tool demanded by companies of all sizes.

The company's upcoming product, LiveRebel, enables an enterprise production environment with 0% downtime for updating running apps.

Customers include many global financial services providers, including the Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase, as well as American Airlines, Lufthansa, Volkswagen, LinkedIn, HP, Siemens, Logica, Kayak, Oracle, IBM, and more.

We appreciate ZeroTurnaround's membership and look forward to many joint activities.

PS: Find JRebel on the Eclipse Marketplace client in your Eclipse IDE (search for "JRebel") or go here for more info: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/jrebel-eclipse

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Eclipse Foundation at OOP 2011

Next week, we will be joining the OOP 2011 as an exhibitor.

Together with our members Bredex, EclipseSource, Tasktop and Yatta we will have a shared stand on the exhibition floor.

If you happen to be at OOP, please stop by for a chat!

PS: If you had not planned to go: Visit selected talks and the exhibition floor are free. Just register here.

Ralph

Monday, December 20, 2010

Welcome Yatta to the Eclipse Foundation

The Yatta Solutions GmbH has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member.

The Kassel, Germany based company is an independent software vendor and IT consulting company. The company's mission is to make software processes simpler, faster and more reliable through leading-edge technologies and services.

Yatta Solutions provides Eclipse-based tool solutions for dynamic modeling and programming. The next-generation round-trip engineering of the Eclipse based tools suite UML LAB seamlessly combines Eclipse modeling and programming.

The company's customers include major corporations such as Volkswagen (VW) as well as small and medium-sized organizations.

You'll find more information about Yatta's solutions at http://www.uml-lab.com.

We appreciate Yatta's membership and look forward to many joint activities (like the last demo camp in Kassel).

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Welcome AGETO to the Eclipse Foundation

The Ageto Service GmbH has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member.

The Jena, Germany based company provides specialist consulting, software development and support services in the eCommerce, enterprise resource planning and IT security sectors. As a partner of eCommerce and ERP providers, AGETO handles the implementation and support of software solutions. In the field of IT security, AGETO has expert knowledge and experience in the integration of the new German identity card into Web applications. AGETO’s customers include Buch.de, Pelikan, Fujitsu, Carl Zeiss Meditec and Toshiba. Further information on the company is available at www.ageto.de.

With AGETO’s employee Gunnar Wagenknecht, who has successfully participated to Eclipse projects in the past and who is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council we have seen many contributions from AGETO. We look now forward to having an even closer involvement of the company in the Eclipse eco system.

Welcome!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Welcome Protos to the Eclipse Foundation

The Protos Software GmbH has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member

The Munich, Germany based Protos Software GmbH is a service company that specialized in the development of model-driven, domain-specific tools and applications for Embedded Systems.
We develop tools and applications for our customers and support them with training, consulting and coaching. Most of our projects are based on Eclipse Open Source Tools.
We have been creating tools and applications for the domains of automation, automotive, telecommunication and medical since 1996.

Protos recently started the eTrice Project which is in the Incubation Phase at the moment. The eTrice project will strive to deliver state of the art tooling and target middleware for the model driven development of industry quality event driven real-time software. Emphasis will be laid on the usablity of tooling, produced code and middleware in real industry projects. The initial contribution will be made most likely in November.

We appreciate Protos' membership and look forward to many joint activities.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Welcome University of Genova - DIST to the Eclipse Foundation

The University of Genova, Italy has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member.

For many years has the university's department of Computer, Communication and Systems Science (DIST) in Genova invested in Eclipse related technology and has helped to create a vivid research community in Italy.

Main research interests of the department with its 75 researchers and about 100 PhD students include the e-learning, robotics and automation, artificial intelligence and peer-to-peer technologies.

In many areas of this work the Eclipse platform serves as educational tool as well as supporting the researchers.

We appreciate the membership of the University of Genova and look forward to many joint activities.

Please contact DIST if you are looking for cooperation in the mentioned areas.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Welcome SBB / CFF / FFS to the Eclipse Foundation



The Swiss Railway SBB has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member.

Transporting 327.5 million passengers and 50 million net tons of freight every year the company is by far the biggest travel and transport company in Switzerland.

Having experienced their great services for the time I was living in Switzerland I appreciate very much that this very service oriented organization has become a large consumer of the Eclipse platform and Eclipse related services.

We have seen presentations of their applications on various occasions such as the Eclipse Summit, and we look forward to an even closer relationship with SBB through the newly signed membership.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Welcome Intland Software to Eclipse

Intland Software has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member.

The company is a provider of collaboration and Application Lifecycle Management solutions for software development.

Within the Eclipse ecosystem, Intland is actively pursuing the following activities and projects:

To further enhance the seamless integration of Mercurial, a leading Distributed Version Control System, to Eclipse, with the MercurialEclipse plugin project. Intland is a firm believer in the superiority of the Distributed Version Control paradigm over the traditional centralized approach, and is actively developing several commercial and free software packages that support Mercurial and Git.

To reuse the first hand experience gathered while working on the Mercurial integration, and contribute to the EGit project - the Eclipse plugin that integrates Git with Eclipse - Intland has been invited to participate in EGit and team up with SAP, Google, Tasktop and other individual contributors.

Furthermore, Intland is working on defining and developing a generic integration layer between the leading Distributed Version Control implementations and the Mylyn task-focused interface. The primary aim of this initiative is to develop the most complete distributed ALM functionality available in the Eclipse universe. It includes sophisticated issue management, offline working and powerful associations between issues and source code change sets.

Intland’s collaborative software development solutions are used by major international organisations in industries, such as automobile, avionics, defence, finance and telecommunications. The company’s headquarters is based in Stuttgart, Germany, with a subsidiary in Silicon Valley, USA.

We appreciate Intland's membership and look forward to many joint activities

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Welcome Sigasi To The Eclipse Foundation

Sigasi has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member.

The young start-up is based in Ghent, Belgium. The company is focusing it's efforts around Sigasi HDT, a development tool for VHDL designers (in case you don't know VHDL, consult Wikipedia here). The tool is listed on Eclipse Marketplace in case you want to download it.

As Hendrik Eeckhaut, the CTO of Sigasi, states: We have long been convinced that a solid framework like Eclipse helps everybody. The application developer can reuse a big portion of the Eclipse framework (standing on the shoulders of giants, so to speak). The end user has a single familiar user interface and can benefit from over a thousand Eclipse-based solutions.

We appreciate Sigasi's membership and look forward to many joint activities (and more creative marketing images).