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.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the Gold sponsors for the upcoming EclipseCon 2012 conference in Reston, Virginia on March 26-29, 2012. Actuate, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat and SAP have all agreed to be the premier sponsors of the annual Eclipse community event.

The Eclipse Foundation and OMG are pleased to announce the program for the third Eclipse/OMG Workshop on open specifications and open source software. The Workshop will occur on Sunday, March 25 in Reston, Virginia at the same location as EclipseCon 2012.

The nomination deadline for the Eclipse Community Awards is January 27, 2012. Don't forget to nominate the individuals or products that were the best in 2011. Winners will be announce at EclipseCon 2012.

Sign up by December 31 for EclpseCon 2012 and Agile ALM Connect for the lowest registration price.

On Thursday, December 22, 2011, the Eclipse Foundation will be changing the mechanisms it uses to authenticate user access to its various websites, such as Bugzilla, the Forums, and the Wiki. The purpose of this change is to simplify our account management, reduce duplicate accounts and move towards open standards for user authentication.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the technical program and tutorials for the upcoming EclipseCon 2012 conference. The annual Eclipse community conference is being held March 26-29, 2012 at a new location in Reston, Virginia. The conference will be co-located with the new Agile ALM Connect conference and the annual OSGi DevCon.

The speakers and program have been announced for the new Agile ALM Connect conferece, co-located with EclipseCon 2012. Aglle ALM Connect focuses on connecting the tools, agile methods and people across the software development lifecycle.

The Eclipse community is celebrating 10 years of Eclipse with birthday parties around the world. Sign up now to attend or present.

The Eclipse Community Awards 2012 are open for nominations. Help recognize individuals, projects, and technologies that have made an impact within the Eclipse community by telling us about your favorites.

The Eclipse community is celebrating 10 years of Eclipse with birthday parties around the world. Sign up now to attend or present.

The Eclipse community is celebrating 10 years of Eclipse with birthday parties around the world. Plan to attend one near you.

The Eclipse community is celebrating 10 years of Eclipse with birthday parties around the world. Plan to attend one near you.

We are very excited to announce the publication of this fantastic new book on Hudson available from the Hudson web site. It provides a comprehensive guide to using Hudson from initial download to production deployment.

In the month of November, the Eclipse community is celebrating 10 years since the start of the Eclipse open source project. In November 2001, the Eclipse IDE and platform were first made available under an open source software license. IBM made the initial $40 million contribution of technology to start the Eclipse project that has now grown to technology commons with an estimated value of over $800 million. The Eclipse community has also emerged as the leading place for individuals and organizations to collaborate on innovative technology development.

A new open source industry collaboration, called Polarsys, is being created at the Eclipse Foundation to focus on building and maintaining tools for safety critical and embedded system development. Interested parties in Polarsys include Airbus, Astrium Satellites, ATOS, CEA, CS (Communication & Systèmes), Ericsson, IRIT (Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse), Inria, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Obeo, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Tecnalia, Thales, and Xipp. Polarsys will operate as a Eclipse Industry Working Group and be open to any organization interested in participating in the goals of the group.

Sierra Wireless, IBM, Eurotech, and the Eclipse Foundation establish an M2M Industry Working Group to ease the development, testing, and deployment of machine-to-machine solutions

Upcoming events: 7 November in Raleigh, USA and Bonn, Germany; 8 November in Dresden, Germany and Warsaw, Poland; 10 November in Trondheim, Norway; and 12 November in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

EclipseCon Europe starts on November 2, 2011. Make sure you register today and plan to attend a great conference and learning experience.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a new technical conference focused on connecting the latest software development tools, Agile methods and people across the entire application lifecycle. This new conference, called Agile ALM Connect, will be held March 26-29 in Reston, VA and will be co-located with EclipseCon 2012.