Eclipse Day Paris took place a few weeks ago, every year it is scheduled the week after Eclipse Con Europe. I had the chance to attend the 2011 edition and it was a real pleasure for several reasons.1 - Organization rockedThe event was perfectly organized. Proxiad and Zenika did a great job, timing was perfect for the presentations, the content was interesting and the french touch for food and wine have been highly appreciated !Proxiad and Zenika are fairly original service providers : highly technical and active in open source communities, it's always a pleasure to collaborate with them. Congrats to the organizers !2 - Diverse contentThe talks were very diverse, from Ralph and the Eclipse Foundation to UI testing going through modeling, OSGi, Scout, BI and industrial feedback. A nice combination.3 - Wide and Diverse audienceThe event was free and attracted a wide and diverse audience. That was perfect for me as I was there as "Eclipse Modeling Evangelist", helping people und...

Community and EcosystemThe Juno release cycle has been very interesting for EMF Compare - as a project.Discussions started through the  Modeling Platform working group lead to the sponsorship of a bunch of new features (we covered those before but in a nutshell :  UML dedicated support, UI enhancements, Graphical comparison support and Logical Model for EGit). Meanwhile we took a number of actions to make this project a more welcoming area for contributions and to ease adoption, some of these actions are technical (documentation, build, tests and continuous integration) and others are focused on community grow (transparency, communication, discussions with academic researchers).We are not done yet and have several remaining actions but we can already see some results :- new adopters appeared and contacted us through the bugzilla with use cases we had not envisionned, trying to keep the answering delay reasonable helped a lot in converging to a patch. Within Eclipse itsel...

Community and EcosystemThe Juno release cycle has been very interesting for EMF Compare - as a project.Discussions started through the  Modeling Platform working group lead to the sponsorship of a bunch of new features (we covered those before but in a nutshell :  UML dedicated support, UI enhancements, Graphical comparison support and Logical Model for EGit). Meanwhile we took a number of actions to make this project a more welcoming area for contributions and to ease adoption, some of these actions are technical (documentation, build, tests and continuous integration) and others are focused on community grow (transparency, communication, discussions with academic researchers).We are not done yet and have several remaining actions but we can already see some results :- new adopters appeared and contacted us through the bugzilla with use cases we had not envisionned, trying to keep the answering delay reasonable helped a lot in converging to a patch. Within Eclipse itsel...

For those of you looking for the Acceleo presentation that I’ve realized last week during EclipseCon Europe 2011, you can now find it online. I have also put online the presentation that I’ve done during the Eclipse Modeling symposium on the new Interpreter view available in Acceleo 3.2. A video of this presentation during the symposium is available on Dailymotion. And now, after Twitter, the Acceleo community will also be available on Google+.Lien d'origine...

at Eclipse Day Paris !If you're always wondering why we are so excited about Eclipse Modeling Technologies, if you'd like to understand how technologies relates to each others and how they can be used, stop by at Eclipse Day Paris tomorrow :"Modeling" . Behind this simple word lies strong opinions, misconceptions, obscure acronyms, meta-things and marketing campains far from the reality of developping an application. But if you look more closely, this forest hides a fairly small set of simple, powerful yet flexible concepts. If you zoom in again, you'll see awesome technologies. While some "dreamers" are giving more and more abstract discourses about modeling, on the field these technologies are pervading, even close to the bare metal in the Eclipse platform itself. In 2011, you might already know you can generate rich applications, but what about web technologies, PHP, C ? This talk will start by taking a step back about what is all this modeling stuff, what it isn't and what tec...