Xtext will hold its first dedicated conference, with a two-day period of presentations around this Eclipse technology. XtextCon will take place from May 27th at Kiel in Germany. How the textual approach of Xtext and the graphical one of Sirius could be complementary? This is what is going to present Cédric Brun, he will give a demonstration combining these both technologies. Sirius + Xtext = <3 More about the conference: http://xtextcon.org/....

The third edition of the Eclipse Day Florence will take place on May 23rd. It is the place to be to meet the Eclipse italian community. Mélanie Bats will represent Obeo with 2 talks including one with the famous Arduino cat. The first talk will be about Sirius, with introduction of the concepts, and then a live coding session to demonstrate how to create your first designer with a few clicks. Sirius: build diagram, table and tree editors in 20 minutes! For the second talk, Mélanie will be accompanied by her Arduino cat based on Sirius. She will present how theses technologies could be used to create a programming learning platform for kids. Turning Eclipse into an Arduino programming platform for kids More about the conference: Eclipse Day Florence 2014 web site....

Sirius reaches its 1.0 version and makes it much easier and quicker than GMF to develop specific modeling tools (see the Sirius newsletter). This can be used to create tools that help visualize and analyze architecture constraints with various domain specific models. Via Eclipse newsletter...

Back to San Francisco, EclipseCon North America 2014 will start next Monday a four-day conference dedicated to Eclipse. Again this year, Obeo will be highly visible with 11 sessions in the program. Sirius, our new project for graphical modeling, will be particularly honored with 4 talks, 1 workshop and 1 poster session to meet our experts. No less than 6 members of the team will travel to California to help deliver these sessions: 1 workshop BOF - Let’s get Sirius - Etienne Juliot, Cédric Brun, Goulwen Le Fur and Mélanie Bats | Wednesday | 18:00 1 poster session Poster - The Sirius Project - Etienne Juliot, Goulwen Le Fur | Thursday | 10:00 9 talks Living documentation - Mélanie Bats | Tuesday | 10:30 Hitchhiker guide to Eclipse presentation frameworks galaxy - Goulwen Le Fur | Tuesday | 11:15 Sirius role-playing game: build diagram, table and tree editors in 20 minutes! - Cédric Brun, Stéphane Bonnet (Thales) | Tuesday | 15:00 ECoreTools 2.0: the Luna revival - Cédric Bru...

Eclipse User Spotlight: Cédric Brun, Obeo What do you do? I am the CTO (Chief Technical Officer) at Obeo. I'm in charge of the products, the technical aspects of the services we provide to our customers and the R&D projects. I manage a team of talented and diverse developers in a friendly environment, each one of them always looking for ways to do things better. Via Eclipse.org Newsletter...