SiriusCon 2017 has never been so close! The third edition of this conference will take place this Thursday, the 9th of November in the beautiful Paris! A whole day of exclusive content: presentations with a specific focus on Eclipse Sirius itself, others about companion technologies and feedback from users who used these technologies to build their custom tools! This year these tools are covering activities ranging from the Risk Analysis in Industry Supply Chains to the design and management of REST API for an enterprise information system. One can learn a lot from the experiences of the others and I’m often amazed at the tools which are getting built. We’ll start the day with a keynote by Mike Milinkovich, the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. It’s an honor to host such an important actor in the Open-Source movement, he has a unique perspective regarding what happened in the Software Industry the last decade and how Open-Source enabled worldwide collaborations. This keyno...

Today is my last day in Obeo.I started there 11 years ago and it has to be said that we started from not much! Year after year, we have built a set of products and solutions offering more and more functionalities to our customers, covering an increasingly wide functional domain (generation, transformation, custom modelling,...). The way we built the Obeo products might seem magical from the outside, but it was the result of the hard work of the company and the passion of its employees... my colleagues. This fantastic period allowed me to evolve day after day, on all a set of aspects that I would not have imagined when I arrived: development, architecture, project management, customers care, marketing,...All these skills will allow me to assume my new functions in my new company. Indeed, I join Digitemis to take on the role of Product Owner. Mainly, I will drive the roadmap of the company's products in order to provide tools that will best meet the needs of our customers.I have...

Industries are relying either on ad hoc or rigid tools for systems engineering. Either the tool is built “in-house” and grow organically or it is bought to one of the big software vendors and then the company have to adapt its practices and teams to use it. Such software vendors might use every opportunity to lock in their users, in both cases the tool longevity is quite uncertain. In the last 11 years, Obeo went from a 3-to-50 persons company and from an unknown organization to one of the largest contributor to the Eclipse Modeling technologies leading individual projects (Sirius, Acceleo, EMF Compare) up to worldwide awareness. We Are Obeo! We’ve been challenging this status quo since day one. What if there could be a solution which would be adaptable yet built on strong methodological and technical foundations, open-source, available to all, and with an open governance. A software that anybody can download and use without going through a registration, a tool built...

I’m deeply honored of being part of the program committee again for EclipseCon Europe 2017. Each year I’m amazed at this conference, it was one of the first Eclipse event I attend and since then it has always had a strong friendly vibe to it. In the last few years it evolved into the main international event for the Eclipse community, attending it should be a no brainer. This conference is great because of the content and the people, help us select good content by submitting it! By my count we already have more than 170 submissions and the usual last minute flood might start any minute from now. In the next few hours the call for papers will be closed: now is a good time to hit that submit button. Small is beautiful: submit abstracts which are “to the point” are giving clear insight into what content and structure you are proposing. No need for 400 words of context, stick to what makes your submission relevant to EclipseCon and interesting to share. submit your talk now ! and see ...

Every year the Eclipse M7 milestone act as a very strong deadline for the projects which are part of the release train: it’s then time for polishing and refining! Time's up ! Pencils down, it's M7 ! — Cédric Brun (@bruncedric) 4 mai 2010 When your company is responsible for a number of inter-dependent projects some of them core technologies like EMF Services , the GMF Runtime, others user facing tools like Acceleo, Sirius or EcoreTools, packaging and integration oriented projects like Amalgam or the Eclipse Packaging project and all of these releases needs to be coordinated, then may is a busy month. This week: M7 milestones for EcoreTools, Amalgam, Sirius, testing the Modeling package. Plot twist: 3 work days ! pic.twitter.com/msqQkImRu4 — Cédric Brun (@bruncedric) 3 mai 2016 I’m personally involved in EcoreTools which makes me in the position to step in the role of the consumer of the other technologies and my plan for Oxygen was to make use of the Property Views support includ...