Best of Show for Bug Labs

CNET just announced their CES ‘Best of Show‘ awards. Bug Labs won in the Emerging Technology category. As I previously mentioned and Bjorn pointed out, Bug Labs uses Eclipse and OSGi for their SDK and runtime.

Congratulations to Bug Labs! What a great endorsement of their technology.

Eclipse DemoCamp Wrap Up

• Cities hosting DemoCamps: 31
• Eclipse-based demos: 145
• Total attendees: 760
• Longest running event: Poznan Poland over 2 days
• Most Attendees: 61 in Sofia, Bulgaria
• Number of NetBeans evangelist registered: 1 in Austin   (not sure if Gregg attended)
• Opportunities to meet other Eclipse enthusiasts: unlimited

Thank you to all the organizers and participants of the Eclipse DemoCamps. By all accounts they were a great success. The feedback we have received is that this is something we should do again in 2008. Therefore, I think we will try to organize a series around the Ganymede launch and another later in the 2008.

Some other feedback is that people would like to develop regional Eclipse communities. The face to face networking is an important aspect of these DemoCamps and they would like to keep the momentum going. If you have any ideas on what we could to to support local communities, please let me know.

Top Contributor Award has been added

By popular demand we have added a Top Contributor award as a category to the Eclipse Community Awards.   The key feature of a Top Contributor is that

they make their contributions due to their passion for making Eclipse a better community. In general, no one is paying them for the time they spend on making their Eclipse contributions.

There are a lot of people that deserve this award, so I am glad we are bringing it back.  Get your nominations in now.

btw, I do hope we get a lot more nominations for the Top Amabassador and Top Committer award.  Similarly don’t forget to nominate a product for the technology awards.  The deadline for nominations is January 25.