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<b>Happy New Year to all Eclipse Members!</b>
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<b>Make a Nomination for the Eclipse Community Awards</b><br>
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Each year the Eclipse Foundation gives out Community Awards to honour individuals and technologies that make
Eclipse a vibrant community.
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Nominations are now open for the Technology Awards:
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Best Eclipse-Based Developer Tool,
Best Equinox Application and Best RCP Application. Nominations can either be submitted in a commercial or open source
category. Nominations are also open for the Individual Awards: Top Ambassador, Top Committer and Top
Contributor.
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All nominations are due by January 30. Winners will be announced in a ceremony
at EclipseCon in March. </font>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<b>Board of Directors Nominations</b><br>
Nominations for the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors are open from January 12-29, 2009.
There are to be five elected committer representatives and five elected solutions member
representatives.
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<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/elections/keydates.php"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a>
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<b>Call for EclipseCon Sponsorship</b><br></font>
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Sponsorship opportunities for EclipseCon 2009 are still available to Eclipse members. Act quickly
as many sponsor options are limited in availability and some items are already sold out. As well, options
like booth location are selected on a first-come-first choice basis.
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<a href="http://eclipse.org/go/EC_MAIL@emnjan"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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height="100" width="100" alt="We're sponsoring EclipseCon 2009"/></a>
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<b>Design a Committer T-Shirt</b><br>
The Eclipse Foundation is holding a contest to design a new and improved committer
t-shirt to give away at EclipseCon. First place wins a Flip Mino video camera. Help us
make the Eclipse community a better-dressed place by submitting an entry by
January 12.
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<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/community/tshirt/eclipsecon09.php"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more &gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<b>RECENT PROJECT PROPOSALS</b><br><br></font></td>
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<td style="padding-left:5px;" width="205" valign="top"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px><b>Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) Index</b><br>
EMF Index will auto-collect and synchronize index data on Ecore models and instances, allowing
fast queries without the need to have EMF resources instantiated in memory.</font>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/emf-index/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<td style="padding-right:5px;" width="205" valign="top"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px><b>Extended Editing Framework (EEF)</b><br>
EEF will focus on the tooling for the production of enhanced environments dedicated to EMF models editing
to improve the EMF model creation phase.</font>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eef/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<td style="padding-left:5px;" width="205" valign="top"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px><b>Firefly DevKit</b><br>
The FireFly DevKit project intends to develop an extensible mobile web developer kit for use in creating
and testing traditional and next-generation mobile RIA applications.</font>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/firefly/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<td style="padding-right:5px;" width="205" valign="top"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px><b>IDE for Education (IDE4EDU)</b><br>
IDE4EDU is a version of Eclipse streamlined for university and college
students. The environment provides support for programming languages commonly used in
university courses.</font>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/ide4edu/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<td style="padding-left:5px;" width="205" valign="top"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px><b>Metamodel Specification Tools (MST)</b><br>
MST will provide tooling that makes it easy to create, serialize (in CMOF-compliant XMI) and document
metamodels that form the basis for open specifications.</font>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/mst/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<td style="padding-right:5px;" width="205" valign="top"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px><b>Presentation Modeling Framework (PMF)</b><br>
PMF's purpose is to provide the basic functional concepts of user interaction in a PIM level UI
modeling language and to design the data presentation scenario/pattern. </font>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/pmf/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<td style="padding-left:5px;" width="205" valign="top"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px><b>Silverlight Development Toolkit (SLDT)</b><br>
The purpose of this project is to provide a cross-platform development environment to build the RIA Web
application on Microsoft Silverlight.</font>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/sldt/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<td style="padding-left:5px;" width="205" valign="top"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px><b>Test Automation Platform (TAP)</b><br>
TAP will add new extensibility and components for constructing system test automation solutions, including
a new Eclipse platform designed for headless test execution.</font>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/tap/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</font></a><br>
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<b>Zend Webinar: Intro to Eclipse PDT 2.0</b><br>
Zend invites Eclipse members to join a free webinar on PHP Development Tools
with Roy Ganor on Jan. 21.</font>
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<b>Submit a M2M Offer</a></b><br><br></font>
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<b>UPCOMING EVENTS</b></font><br>
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<b><a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseBankingDayLondon" target="blank"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>
Eclipse Banking Day in London</font></a></b><br>
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February 12, 2009<br>
London, United Kingdom<br>
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EclipseCon</font></a></b><br>
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Eclipse Forum India</font></a></b><br>
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April 8-11, 2009<br>
Bangalore, India<br>
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Eclipse Forum Europe</font></a></b><br>
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April 20-24, 2009<br>
Mainz, Germany<br>
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April 28-29, 2009<br>
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July 14-18, 2009<br>
Pune and Bangalore, India<br>
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