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, October 12, 2011

October Travel

Arrived in Stuttgart just now for the Amalthea meeting. If you care about embedded multicore applications and model driven development in Automotive, you better check this project.

Tomorrow a trip to Zurich (Switzerland) for the first Eclipse Stammtisch there - can you believe it took 10 years to get to this initial event? Thanks to the folks from Scout project to get this going.

On Sunday I fly to Bilbao, Spain for the second edition of the Eclipse Embedded Day Spain. Last year I only participated through Skype, so this year I look forward to attend in person (supposedly it is warmer than in Zwingenberg too).

And so it goes on in October - no remorse:

On October 21st I have the pleasure to speak at NuxeoWorld in Paris, the week after I will attend the ITEA2 / Artemis Co-Summit in Helsinki. And just when I get back I'll head together with my colleague Wayne Beaton to Leuven in Belgium for a special Eclipse event the Belgium Java user group has organized.

Am I on the road or what?

Ralph

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

Friday, June 10, 2011

Welcome GitHub to the Eclipse Foundation

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

Based in San Francisco, GitHub is the largest open source code host with over 2 million Git repositories. As I hear from GitHub's clients it is the easiest way to share and collaborate on code and offers unlimited public repositories for free.

GitHub has committers working on the Eclipse EGit project as well as Mylyn tooling for issue tracking, code review and snippet sharing through github.com. This work will be presented at the Eclipse Indigo demo camp at eBay in San Jose, CA.

We look forward to having GitHub participating in the Eclipse eco system!