| [ve-dev] Change of project leadership |
Hi all,
After helping start this project and working with you all for 3 years, I've decided it's time to move on. I've really enjoyed working together, especially hacking code together at EclipseCons and I'm looking forward to seeing continued great things out of this project.
Joe will be a great team leader. He has already represented VE well and he has a great vision for this project.
Here's the official announcement I posted late last night to my blog and that Joe will copy soon to the VE home page:
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After three years of successfully leading Eclipse’s Visual Editor Project, David Orme is moving on to pursue other activities around Eclipse. In 2003, David founded and led the Visual Editor Project as the first Eclipse project to be started and led by somebody other than IBM. During his tenure, David spoke about Visual Editor at every EclipseCon except for the EclipseCon 2006 where Joe Winchester represented Visual Editor. Most recently, David shepherded Visual Editor into Callisto. David is now leaving Visual Editor Project to focus his efforts on the JFace Data Binding framework and the new CompositeTable control in Eclipse’s Nebula project.
Joe Winchester, another of the original founders of Visual Editor Project will succeed David as leader of Visual Editor Project. Joe has extensive writing and speaking experience, having represented Visual Editor Project in Java Developer’s Journal and at EclipseCon. “Joe has been an excellent representative of Visual Editor during all of the years we have worked together, and I am confident that he is the right person to take Visual Editor to the next level, said David Orme.”
A frequent speaker, David Orme is the founder and Principal Consultant of Coconut Palm Software, Inc., a Chicago company specializing in Eclipse Rich Client Platform consulting and training. A recognized Eclipse thought leader, David has delivered three commercially successful Eclipse RCP projects and been active in the Eclipse community since 2002. Coconut Palm Software may be found at http://www.coconut-palm-software.com.
Joe Winchester is a software developer working for IBM
in Hursley, UK, whose passion is desktop software. He is on a number of
JSR expert groups surrounding JavaBeans, a java.net Java Champion, and
the editor of a section on “Desktop Java” for the Java Developer’s Journal.
He has worked on GUI builder tooling including VisualAge for Java’s Visual
Composition Editor and the Eclipse Visual Editor. Joe has spoken at a number
of conferences on client technologies and desktop programming, including
JavaOne, Catalyst, EclipseCon, and WebEdge.
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Regards,
Dave Orme