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| <b>Register for EclipseCon Now for Maximum Discount</b><br> |
| "Very Early" Registration for EclipseCon lasts until December 31 and gives an $800 discount off the |
| onsite price. Members are also eligible for a further 15% discount. An All Access Pass provides |
| entry to presentations, tutorials, receptions and the exhibit hall. |
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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, 2008. 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>Membership Satisfaction Survey</b><br> |
| The Eclipse Foundation asks members to take 10 minutes to complete the 2008 Membership Satisfaction Survey. The data |
| gathered from the annual survey helps the Foundation immensely as we plan for 2009. The deadline to respond is December 15. |
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| <a href="http://eclipse.org/go/SAT_SURVEY"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Take the survey |
| using the password <i>innovation</i> >></font></a> |
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| <b>Call for EclipseCon Sponsorship</b><br></font> |
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| A number of sponsorship opportunities for EclipseCon 2009 are 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. Gold packages offer additional |
| registration discounts that can be used the "Very Early" registration price for maximum savings. |
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| <a href="http://eclipse.org/go/EC_MAIL@emndec"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more >></font></a><br> |
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| <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/"><img border="0" |
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| height="100" width="100" alt="We're sponsoring EclipseCon 2009"/></a> |
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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>Faceted Project Framework</b><br> |
| The Faceted Project Framework will facilitate treating Eclipse projects as composed of units of functionality |
| (called facets) that can be easily added or removed by users.</font> |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/fproj/"><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>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-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-left: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-right: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>UFaceKit</b><br> |
| UFaceKit will improve adoption of Eclipse Core technologies outside RCP and SWT, and usability of |
| Eclipse Data Binding by providing a high-level Widget-API.</font> |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/ufacekit/"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more >></font></a><br> |
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| <b>UPCOMING EVENTS</b></font><br> |
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| April 8-11, 2009<br> |
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| 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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