Announcements

Do you have what it takes to be a rocket scientist? EclipseCon 2010 will be your opportunity to play with the top guns. The Eclipse Foundation, in collaboration with NASA JPL, are organizing the e4-Rover Mars Challenge. EclipseCon attendees will participate in a contest to create the very best robotic control system to drive a robot across a prototypical Mars landscape. The grand prize winner will be receive an opportunity to visit the NASA robotics lab in Los Angeles, CA

Do you have what it takes to be a rocket scientist? EclipseCon 2010 will be your opportunity to play with the top guns. The Eclipse Foundation, in collaboration with NASA JPL, are organizing the e4-Rover Mars Challenge. EclipseCon attendees will participate in a contest to create the very best robotic control system to drive a robot across a prototypical Mars landscape. The grand prize winner will be receive an opportunity to visit the NASA robotics lab in Los Angeles, CA

The Eclipse Foundation is requesting community feedback on the idea of changing/updating the existing Eclipse logo. We are asking Eclipse community members to vote on which design concept they like best.

Voting for the Eclipse Community Awards is open until Friday, February 26, 2010 at 5:00 pm EST. Spread the love by voting for your favourite individuals and projects in the Eclipse community.

The categories open for voting are:

• Top Committer
• Top Contributor
• Most Innovative New Feature or Eclipse Project
• Most Open Project

Eclipse Foundation participates in new CeBIT theme island - showcases member company products and projects

The Eclipse Foundation announced today that they will participate in CeBIT 2010 with a themed exhibit in the Open Source Forum. The exhibit will include Foundation members Actuate, Bredex, EclipseSource and SOPERA.

The call for posters and Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions at EclipseCon is open. It's not too late to be a part of the program!

Needham, MA, USA and Ottawa, ON, Canada - February 3, 2010 - OMG™ and the Eclipse Foundation have issued a Call for Participation for the 2nd Biannual Symposium on Eclipse Open Source Software and OMG Open Specifications to be held June 23, 2010 in Minneapolis, Minn., USA. The submission deadline is February 24. For more information visit http://www.omg.org/eclipse-cfp.

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! Show your appreciation to the people that have made Eclipse a stronger community by casting your vote.

Ottawa, Canada - January 21, 2010 - The technical program and gold sponsors for EclipseCon 2010 have been announced. Cisco, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP and Sonatype have agreed to be Gold sponsors for the 7th annual Eclipse conference, to be held March 22-25, 2010 in Santa Clara, CA.

• Dramatically increase the usability of through improved navigation and graphic design.
• Make it easier for solution providers to manage their product entries.
• Provide better linkage between EPIC site and the vendors’ update sites.
• Host EPIC on a new content management system.
• Offer benefits to members of the Eclipse Foundation

IT departments of large enterprises face unique challenges deploying Eclipse to thousands, and even tens of thousands, of their developers. Join us for a webinar that includes speakers from Cisco, Morgan Stanley and eBay about some of the key challenges they face, and steps they have taken to address these issues.

The Eclipse Community Awards are an annual event designed to show appreciation for contributions that make Eclipse a stronger community. There are three categories of awards - individuals, Eclipse projects and technologies. The Eclipse Foundation is now accepting nominations for the awards, so show your gratitude and nominate a person, Eclipse project or product that has made a difference to you.