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| <b>FOUNDATION UPDATES IN THIS ISSUE:</b></font> |
| <li><a href="#title1"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Early Registration Deadline for EclipseCon</font></a></li> |
| <li><a href="#title2"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Open Source Executive Strategy Summit</font></a></li> |
| <li><a href="#title3"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Board of Directors Candidates</font></a></li> |
| <li><a href="#title4"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Vote on the Individual Eclipse Community Awards</font></a></li> |
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| <li><a href="#title5"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Call for EclipseCon Sponsorship</font></a></li> |
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| <b><a name="title1"/>Early Registration Deadline for EclipseCon</a></b><br> |
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| EclipseCon takes place March 23-26, in Santa Clara, CA. There are more than 200 tutorials and talks covering |
| all aspects of Eclipse technology and commercial interests. Register by February 14 for a $500 discount off |
| the onsite price. |
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| Hotels and flights are filling up quickly this year, so remember to book early! |
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| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/go/EC_MAIL@emnfeb"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more >></font></a> |
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| <b><a name="title2"/>Open Source Executive Strategy Summit</a></b><br> |
| The Open Source Executive Strategy Summit is for executives who are responsible for their |
| organizations' open source strategy and participation. The purpose of the event is to answer two |
| questions: 1) What Open Source Strategies Are Working Today?; and 2) What Will Work in the Future? |
| The Summit will be held March 26 at the same location as EclipseCon. |
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| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/membersminutes/20090326StrategySummit/agenda.php"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more >></font></a><br> |
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| <b><a name="title3"/>Board of Directors Candidates</a></b><br> |
| Details on the candidates for the 2009 Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors have been posted. |
| Voting will take place from February 23 to March 13 at 3:00 pm EST. |
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| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/elections/nominees.php"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more >></font></a> |
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| <b><a name="title4"/>Vote on the Individual Eclipse Community Awards</a></b><br> |
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| Voting for the Top Ambassador, Top Committer and Top Contributor awards is open until February 27 at |
| 5:00 pm EST. Help us thank the individuals who have made Eclipse a stronger community this past year. |
| The winners will be announced on March 23 at EclipseCon. |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090202_awards.php"><font color="848484" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2px>Learn more >></font></a><br> |
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| <b><a name="title5"/>Call for EclipseCon Sponsorship</a></b><br> |
| 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@emnfeb"><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 Generation Framework (EGF)</b><br> |
| EGF's goal is to realize the integration of transformation engines and DSL editors with fitted |
| formalisms and mechanism for flexible software mass-production.</font> |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/egf/"><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>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>Financial Platform</b><br> |
| The goal of the Financial Platform project is to extend the Eclipse platform to create an open |
| source framework and common infrastructure for interoperable and extensible financial systems.</font> |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/financial-platform/"><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-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>Jetty</b><br> |
| Jetty's objectives are to maintain an embeddable release of a HTTP server and |
| servlet container, foster integration with other OS |
| projects and provide a platform for scalable solutions.</font> |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/jetty/"><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>Model Execution Framework (MXF)</b><br> |
| The main aim of MXF is to provide a framework for development, execution and debugging of models |
| with operational semantics.</font> |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/mxf/"><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>Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM)</b><br> |
| STEM enables epidemiologists and other researchers to develop disease models quickly and |
| collaboratively. </font> |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/stem/"><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>Make an Offer to Eclipse Members</b><br> |
| You can promote your special offer to other Eclipse members in future issues of the Member Newsletter. If you |
| have a product discount, event coupon, free trial or other special deal to offer to Eclipse members, submit |
| your posting to the Member 2 Member Marketplace.</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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| EclipseCon</font></a></b><br> |
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| March 23-26, 2009<br> |
| Santa Clara, CA, USA<br> |
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| Eclipse Forum India</font></a></b><br> |
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| April 6-11, 2009<br> |
| Bangalore, India<br> |
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| <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> |
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| April 20-24, 2009<br> |
| Mainz, Germany<br> |
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| April 28-29, 2009<br> |
| Istanbul, Turkey<br> |
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| Eclipse Embedded Day in Stuttgart</font></a></b><br> |
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| June 25, 2009<br> |
| Stuttgart, Germany<br> |
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| <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 17-18, 2009<br> |
| Bangalore, India<br> |
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| <b>THANKS TO THE ECLIPSECON GOLD SPONSORS</b></font><br> |
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