Eclipse Community Awards
The Eclipse Community Awards were created to recognize and thank the individuals and technologies that make Eclipse a
vibrant community. There are two categories of awards: 1) awards for individuals, and 2) awards for technologies and
products. The awards will be presented on March 17, 2008 at EclipseCon
2008.
Individual Awards
- Top Ambassador - Recognizes an individual (committer or non-committer) who best promotes and
supports the Eclipse community. Everyone can vote on this award.
- Top Committer - Recognizes an Eclipse committer who best exemplifies support for the community
through newsgroups, Bugzilla, white papers, conference presentations, blogs and other forums. Everyone can vote for
this award.
- Top Contributor - Recognizes an Eclipse contributor who best exemplifies support for the community through submission of patches & comments on bugs,
posts to newsgroups, creation of white papers, presentations at conferences, blogs, IRC
and other forums. Top contributors make their contributions due to their passion for
making Eclipse a better community. In general, no one is paying them for the time they
spend on making their Eclipse contributions. Everyone can vote on this award.
- Most Prolific Newcomer Evangelist - This individual best exemplifies the welcoming of new people into the
Eclipse community. This award will be presented to the individual that has answered the most questions raised on the
eclipse.newcomer newsgroup.
Technology Awards
- Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Developer Tool - Recognizes a commercial product that provides an
innovative, high quality product for software developers.
- Best Open Source Eclipse-Based Developer Tool - Recognizes an open source project (not hosted at
Eclipse) that provides an innovative, high quality product for software developers.
- Best Commercial Equinox Application - Recognizes a commercial product that illustrates the
most innovative use of Eclipse Equinox.
- Best Open Source Equinox Application - Recognizes an open source project (not hosted at
Eclipse) that illustrates the most innovative use of Eclipse Equinox.
- Best Commercial RCP Application - Recognizes a commercial product that illustrates the
most innovative use of Eclipse RCP for end user applications.
- Best Open Source RCP Application - Recognizes an open source project (not hosted at
Eclipse) that illustrates the most innovative use of Eclipse RCP for end user applications.
Important Dates
- Nominations open - December 14, 2007
- Nominations close - January 25, 2008
- Voting begins for Individual Awards - January 30, 2008
- Voting ends for Individual Awards - February 21, 2008 at 5:00 pm EST
- Awards Announced - March 17, 2008
