OTTAWA, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eclipse Foundation announced today
the keynote speakers for its fifth annual community conference, EclipseCon
2008. The conference brings members of the Eclipse community together to
explore, share and learn new techniques, ideas and technologies, as well as
to provide information about the latest developments and future plans of
the Eclipse projects. The conference will be held March 17-20, 2008 at the
Santa Clara Convention Center.
The keynote presentations for EclipseCon 2008 will feature well known
industry speakers including Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and open
source advocate; Dan Lyons, also known as the Fake Steve Jobs; and Sam
Ramji, Director at Microsoft Open Source Labs.
"EclipseCon is an intense, technical conference that appeals to both
developers and users of the many Eclipse projects and technologies," said
Doug Gaff, EclipseCon 2008 Program Chair and Wind River Engineering
Manager. "I am excited to help organize the technical program for this
annual community event."
Registration for EclipseCon 2008 is now open. The conference will
feature in-depth tutorials, long-talk sessions, short-talk sessions, demos
and panels. This year, a single fee will provide access to the entire
conference. In addition, the first 100 paid registrants to the conference
will receive a copy of the book Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java
Web Applications.
Members of the press and analyst community are also encouraged to
attend EclipseCon 2008. More information about the conference, including
how to register, can be found online at http://www.eclipsecon.org.
Sponsorship opportunities are available for EclipseCon. Gold sponsors
already confirmed include Oracle and Wind River. See
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/sponsorship for more information on becoming
a sponsor.
About the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on
providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for
building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that
span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling,
language development environments for Java, C/C++, PHP and others, testing
and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and
embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology
vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and
individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported
corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and
the Eclipse Foundation are available at http://www.eclipse.org.
All company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Press Contact:
Steve Eisenstadt
Page One Public Relations
919-781-8096
steve@pageonepr.com
SOURCE The Eclipse Foundation
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Related links:
http://www.eclipse.org
http://www.eclipsecon.org
CONTACT:
Steve Eisenstadt of Page One Public
Relations, +1-919-781-8096, steve@pageonepr.com, for The Eclipse
Foundation
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