Posters are a great way to present your Eclipse topic informally while people browse the displays and enjoy a few beverages. Posters will be presented during the Wednesday evening reception. BOFs are informal, one-hour gatherings of people who want to talk about a particular topic. They are scheduled for the evenings, after the receptions, and they serve as a great way to continue conversations that have been started during the day.

New to EclipseCon is the Unconference. Monday through Wednesday, you can present an Eclipse-related talk by signing up each evening at 5:30pm in the registration area. It's first-come, first-served, and presentations must be short, to a maximum of 25 minutes.

Submit your poster and BOF proposals today at http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/submissions and start planning for your unconference presentations.

• e4, the next generation of the Eclipse Platform, which is scheduled for release 1.0 in July 2010
• the new Gemini and Virgo projects that make it easier to use OSGi and EclipseRT for enterprise deployment
• the latest modeling projects being used to create domain specific languages
• integrating Eclipse into a build and continuous integration environment

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. Many Eclipse projects implement one or more OMG specifications. This symposium follows two successful one-day events that Eclipse and OMG jointly organized in 2008 to promote and build on the partnership between Eclipse's open source software and OMG's open specifications. It will include a series of discussion sessions on OMG standards and corresponding Eclipse projects, to facilitate alignment between current specifications and implemented software, and identify areas where the cooperation could be further improved in future.

Eclipse Foundation and OMG invite position papers on any of the topic areas below, or any other area where an OMG specification relates to Eclipse software. The Program Committee will publish all submitted position papers, and invite selected paper authors to lead individual discussion sessions.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Extensibility of specifications and/or open source implementations to support
• Conformant commercial implementations
• New application domains
• New requirements
• Processes for evolving specifications and/or open source implementations
• Open source implementations for specifications
• Standardized models or interfaces for open source implementations
• Collaboration between open source implementations

The Program Committee particularly welcomes papers that deal with specific problems and solutions that may benefit from a wider discussion than that available though Eclipse Bug Reports or OMG Issue reporting.

Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief (up to 600 words) position paper by February 24, 2010 using this web form (please select "Presentation"): http://www.omg.org/abstracts.

The Program Committee will send invitations to prospective session leaders in early March 2010. The final symposium agenda and registration details will be available on March 17, 2010 and posted at: http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/mn/special-events/Eclipse.htm.

About the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org.

About OMG
OMG™ is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies and an even wider range of industries. OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT and Systems Modeling, and Business Process. OMG's middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries. For more information, visit www.omg.org.

More details about the awards and the nomination process can be found online. Voting for the Eclipse Community Awards will be open until February 26, 2010 at 5:00pm EST and the winner will be announced March 22, 2010 at EclipseCon.

The nominees are:

Top Committer

• Kevin Barnes
• Boris Bokowski
• Nick Boldt
• Dave Carver
• Andy Clement
• Andrew Eisenberg
• Kim Moir
• Andrew Overholt
• Prakash GR Rangaraj
• Pascal Rapicault
• Markus Schorn
• Eike Stepper
• Remy Suen
• Francis Upton
• David Williams

Top Contributor

• Matt Hall
• Laurens Holst
• James Sugrue
• Lars Vogel

Most Innovative New Feature or Eclipse Project

• Agent Modeling Platform (AMP)
• b3
• EclipseLink
• Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) Connected Data Objects (CDO)
• GEF3D
• Jetty OSGi Integration
• Model to Text (M2T) Acceleo
• Model to Text (M2T) Xpand
• Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) Cocoa Port
• Textual Modeling Framework (TMF) Xtext

Most Open Project

• e4
• Equinox p2
• Mylyn
• XML Tools in Web Tools Platform (WTP) Incubator

"Our sponsors provide the support necessary to make EclipseCon a continued success," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. "The conference provides a vital opportunity for Eclipse users, developers and adopters to collaborate and advance the Eclipse platform. We're privileged to have the support of Cisco, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP and Sonatype to enable us to put on each year a fantastic community event."

The technical program will feature over 160 sessions and over 90 speakers. Session tracks include EclipseRT, Modeling, OSGi DevCon, e4 and many more. In addition, the conference keynotes include:

• Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, a leading authority on agile software development and Founder, CEO and President of Object Mentor presenting Software Professionalism and the Art of Saying "No"
• Dr. Jeff Norris, Supervisor of the Planning Software Systems Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory presenting Building Mission-Critical Tools with Eclipse for NASA Robots

The complete conference program is available at www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions.

Registration for EclipseCon 2010 is now open, with a 20% early discount being offered until February 14. To register, visit www.eclipsecon.org/2010/registration.

About the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org.

All company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

• Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, a leading authority on agile software development and founder, CEO and president of Object Mentor presents Software Professionalism and the Art of Saying "No"
• Dr. Jeff Norris, Supervisor of the Planning Software Systems Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows how Eclipse is used to build mission-critical tools to control NASA robots on land, in the air and in space

• Learn about e4, the next generation of the Eclipse platform scheduled for release 1.0 in July 2010.
• Understand the latest from the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group and how you can use EclipseRT to build enterprise applications.
• Explore the technology advancements in the Eclipse modeling community, including new projects like CDO, XText and many others.

View the Webinar Recording

Format and Agenda:
Each speaker will present for up to 20 minutes, followed by up to 10 minutes of Q&A. Each speaker has identified key topics they find most challenging. They will discuss:

• Dennis Vaughn, Cisco
• Scalability (65k + source files)
• Diverse Deployments (geographically, NFS, OS/Versions)
• Engineering Environment Diversity (legacy tools, acquisitions)
• Working Culture (curmudgeons versus new hires, ROI versus VI/Emacs)
• Miles Daffin, Morgan Stanley
• Enterprise Constraints and their Consequences for Eclipse Provisioning
  • Zen and the Art of creating and maintaining a private Eclipse environment behind the corporate firewall
  • Enterprise Eclipse provisioning requirements - functional and non-functional
  • Meeting the requirements - how have we coped?
  • What problems still exist? (global configuration and increasing security.)
• Next Steps: Further Reduce Total Cost of Ownership and Provide more Useful Features as Needed
  • Improve B3 tooling to make aggregation builds (mirrors) easier to debug
  • Automation of aggregation builds
  • Workspace provisioning
  • Usage Tracking
• Joep Rottinghuis, eBay
• Scalability (100k + source files)
• Deployment (individualized workspaces)
• Usage Tracking (who is using what, and what issues are in what versions)
• Manifest Maintenance (OSGi bundle/package versions)

Webinar Details:

• Recorded Date: December 14, 2009

• Making with Eclipse - how people use Eclipse to create great software.
• Making at Eclipse - state-of-the-nation talks about Eclipse projects and how people can use the technology.
• Making Community - how Eclipse projects and the wider Eclipse community can continue to grow and prosper.