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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 >></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 >></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 >></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 >></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 >></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 >></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 >></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 >></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 >></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 >></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 >></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 >></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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| <font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=1px> |
| <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> |
| <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px> |
| February 12, 2009<br> |
| London, United Kingdom<br> |
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| <b><a href="http://eclipse.org/go/EC_MAIL@emnjan" target="blank"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px> |
| EclipseCon</font></a></b><br> |
| <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px> |
| March 23-26, 2009<br> |
| Santa Clara, CA, USA<br> |
| <br></font> |
| <b><a href="http://www.sda-india.com/conferences/2009/EFI/" target="blank"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px> |
| Eclipse Forum India</font></a></b><br> |
| <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px> |
| April 8-11, 2009<br> |
| Bangalore, India<br> |
| <br></font> |
| <b><a href="http://it-republik.de/konferenzen/efe/" target="blank"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px> |
| Eclipse Forum Europe</font></a></b><br> |
| <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px> |
| April 20-24, 2009<br> |
| Mainz, Germany<br> |
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| <b><a href="http://www.eclipsist.org/web/eclipsist2009/home" target="blank"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px> |
| EclipsIST</font></a></b><br> |
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| April 28-29, 2009<br> |
| Istanbul, Turkey<br> |
| <br></font> |
| <b><a href="http://www.eclipsesummit.com/" target="blank"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px> |
| Eclipse India Summit</font></a></b><br> |
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| July 14-18, 2009<br> |
| Pune and Bangalore, India<br> |
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| <b>NEW MEMBERS</b></font><br> |
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| <b>Solutions Members</b><br><br> |
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| <td valign="middle" width="129"><a href="http://www.knowis.de" target="blank"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>knowis AG</a><br><br></font> |
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| <td valign="middle" width="129"><a href="http://www.montages.com" target="blank"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Montages AG</a><br><br></font> |
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| <td valign="middle" width="129"><a href="http://www.xored.com" target="blank"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>xored software, Inc.</a><br><br></font> |
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| <b>Associate Members</b><br><br> |
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