Last weekend was FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. We had a lot of people come by the Eclipse stand to say they were happy users which was great to hear. It’s understandable that many people did not know about the diversity of Eclipse projects so it was great having Gunnar to show off RT stuff, Mike to show Orion, and myself to demonstrate some of the CDT and Linux Tools functionality.
Booth photo, shamelessly stolen from Gunnar
My lightning talk (slides here) was right after Gunnar’s and IMO both did what they set out to do: to provide an introduction to some parts of Eclipse and hopefully pique people’s interest to learn more. More than one person came up to me afterwards asking for more details or telling me they were going to try things out and report any bugs they find. I look forward to hearing from those people.
 Gary Benson and Xerxes Rånby looking at Eclipse running on OpenJDK on ARM |
 Beer event at Delirium Cafe |
 It’s Scientastic! |
 View from Eclipse booth. There was a giant stuffed camel looking the other way. |
 Omair Majid and Jon VanAlten debuting Thermostat |
 Mike’s future O’Reilly book |
 Andrew Dinn, Chris Phillips, Jon ValAlten, and Gunnar Wagenknect |
 Krzysztof Daniel, Stano Ochotnicky, and Deepak Bhole |
It was a really awesome experience, living up to Dalibor‘s description as “Oktobefest for Free Software hackers”. Many hands were shook and much delicious beer was consumed. The organizers and volunteers who keep the conference running smoothly are absolutely amazing; thanks for providing this great service! I hope I can attend in the future!
