Innovation

There's an article about technology innovation in bad economic conditions in today's NY Times:

It's No Time to Forget About Innovation

I believe this is something to remember...particularly for Eclipse committers...since in my view they are the innovators in the Eclipse community.

ECF and Coffee in the Classroom

There was a very cool announcement on the ECF newsgroup recently about a collaboration framework that uses ECF called Coffee. See here for the announcement. The Coffee end user site is here, and the development site is here. It's exciting for me to see ECF being used by projects both inside and outside the Eclipse Foundation...and as as you can see from the announcement they are keen to both collaborate and contribute back to the open source community.

Enjoy the beverage!

Planning for ECF 3.0

ECF is nearly finished moving from Technology to the new Runtime project, and we are doing planning for ECF 3.0/Galileo. See the new plan here.

Please make enhancement requests and/or start discussion about desired features in the dev mailing list...and let us know what features, changes, or bug fixes you want for ECF 3.0.

Some Disturbing Things from Microsoft

Open Source: A 'Growing Challenge' to Microsoft

There's an MS quote that is particularly disturbing to me

"The availability of protocol licenses may enable competitors to develop software products that better mimic the functionality of Microsoft's own products which could result in a reduction in sales of our products."

This is disturbing because it's pits protocol/service interoperability (a user need) against MS's sales (a MS shareholder need). Let's hope this doesn't result in MS pulling back from protocol openness.

Learning to Think Small?

There is an interesting NY Times article today:

Even the Giants Can Learn to Think Small

ECF 2.0.0 New Features video

It can't match Ed's pictures, but below is a pleasant scene, where most of the beauty is hidden beneath what is visible



But to the point: ECF has a new video showing some of the new things in ECF 2.0:

• Screen shot sharing
• URL sharing
• Real-Time shared editing
• Discovery API, Service Discovery, Remote OSGI Services
• Async File Download

Enjoy

Freed from email

There's an interesting article about use/abuse of email in the NY Times today:

I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip

FWIW, I think ECF is doing it's part on this problem, by providing multiple ways for Eclipse users to easily, cheaply, and openly communicate and collaborate.

Also, for those interested, there is a longstanding proposal to add an XMPP server at Eclipse Foundation in order to help teams build and maintain community.