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How to increase donations to an open source project
Lots of open source projects raise money from their user communities by soliciting donations. Most open source projects will have the ‘Support’ or ‘Make a Donation’ button ...

Eclipse Community Survey 2012
Each year we survey the Eclipse community to gather some insight into what developers are doing with Eclipse and open source. We have published the results and the detailed data is ...

Top 10 Most Popular New Eclipse Plugins
Eclipse Marketplace continues to be the place to discover interesting and relevant Eclipse plugins. There are over 100,000 successful installs/month of Eclipse-based products via the ...

Key Success Factors for Open Source Strategies
Last week at EclipseCon Europe, John Swainson gave a keynote address that reflected on IBM’s decision to start Eclipse as an open source project and consortium. During his speech, ...

Key accomplishments of Eclipse over last 10 years
As I have written, Eclipse is celebrating 10 years of open source and community during the month of November. There have been a number of milestones that have shaped the Eclipse community ...


