From October 23 to 25, 2012 the Eclipse Foundation will hold the 6th edition of the annual European Eclipse Conference.

EclipseCon Europe is all about community – learning, exploring, sharing and collaborating on the latest ideas and information about Eclipse. Contributors, adopters, extenders, service providers, consumer, business and research organizations alike, gather to share their expertise and learn from each other.

Networking activities lead to synergies in the community, from giving and receiving help on specific technical issues to generating new business opportunities. Sponsors of Eclipse Summit are an integral part of the entire event, participating in an exchange from all areas of their organizations from technical to management.

Last year we celebrated Eclipse’s 10th anniversary together with more than 550 attendees at EclipseCon Europe. This year the conference theme is open innovation: how enterprises, researchers and other organizations use Eclipse to develop innovative products and solutions.

We are also co-hosting the European OSGi community event and are extending a special welcome to the International OSGi community. And, again we are proud to have a solid technical program, but we won’t just be networking and listening to technical talks. Let us surprise you with our evening program! Details will be published in the early part of October.

For more information, please visit the conference website http://www.eclipsecon.org.

We would like to invite you to our next event on Thu, October 27 2011, 19:00 to 21:30 at KUL Leuven (see below). As usual, the session is in English and the entry is free.

This is the second event in cooperation with the BeJUG. It is planned since last year and was originally supposed to be the first “real” conjoint JUG session.

The event location is in Leuven, so it would be nice to organise some car sharing if possible. Please send us a mail in case you are looking for a place or if you have free seats to offer. We will play Tetris then.

Please note that this will be the last (regular) event for this season that will be organised outside of Brussels.

What’s the session about?

This time we will have a high-level Eclipse team as guest, provided and directly coming from the Eclipse Foundation. Ralph Mueller, Eclipse Ecosystem Europe Director, joins us together with two colleagues, Wayne Beaton and Tom Schindl, to allow us a deep dive into the Eclipse Foundation eco system.

Of course, this is not the time to speak about the Eclipse IDE – Having experts at our disposal, we have more challenging and sophisticated topics on the list:
UPDATED TOPICS:

• Ralph Mueller – Welcome
• Wayne Beaton – Getting Involved with Eclipse
• Wayne Beaton – Orion: Tools for the web, on the web
• Tom Schindl – e4
• Sven Efftinge – Domain-Specific Languages with Eclipse Xtext
• B. Muskalla – Pimp your productivity with Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn

The registration to this promising session is yet open and we recommend too not waiting to long with reserving. Places are limited and we have two JUG populations to feed :)

Hope to see you there!

The Brussels JUG is sponsored by ISABEL SA. The travel and accommodation costs are sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation! This event is organised in cooperation with the BeJUG.

BruJUG detail page:
http://www.brussels-jug.be/wiki/doku.php?id=events2:2011_10_session1

BeJUG detail page:
http://bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/BeJUG/Eclipse+Deep+Dive

UPDATE: Registration via JUGEVENTS:
http://jugevents.org/jugevents/event/41667
(Please don’t register via the BeJUG registration).

To celebrate the release of the new Eclipse version 3.7 aka ‘Indigo’, Toulibre and Toulouse JUG invite everyone to join their afternoon Eclipsecamp, loaded with conferences and demos. The event is planned for June, 23 2011, between 13:00 and 20:00 in Toulouse.

The conferences are animated by multiple high profiles in the french open-source world, like Benjamin Cabé (committer on the PDE projects e4 and Koneki), Simon Chemouil (committer on e4), Etienne Juliot (Eclipse Foundation board member), Gaétan Morice (committer on Koneki), and more.

Two tracks are running in parallel and the event is concluded with a drink where you can chat with the referees. All talks are hold in French and the place to be is ENSEEIHT, 2 rue Charles Camichel à Toulouse (Métro Ligne B – François Verdier).

Some catch words about the program: Topcased, Osgi, RCP, EMF, EEF, SWTBot, Koneki, Orion, EGit and much more. Curious? Then visit the event web site at http://toulibre.org/eclipseparty.

The event is free thanks to the sponsors: Artal, CS, Obeo and OpCoach.

Registration: http://www.toulibre.org/eclipseparty#inscription

Date: Tuesday May 31, 2011, 06:30PM till 10:00 PM

Place: Peopleware, Duwijckstraat 17, Lier, VLAAMS GEWEST 2500 BE

Agenda:

• 18:30 Sandwiches and drinks
• 19:10 Welcome (Adriaan or Hendrik)
• 19:15 New and noteworthy in Eclipse Indigo (Hendrik)
• 19:30 Migration of EMF with XMI persistence to EMF with database persistence (SmartApps)
• 19:45 VHDL IDE build on Eclipse and Xtext (Sigasi)
• 20:00 Integration of Oracle Forms in Eclipse (SmartApps)
• 20:15 Eclipse at Google I/O 2011 (Litrik)
• … (there is still room for more speakers. Add your demo here)
• Belgian beers

More Info:

Belgian Eclipse User Group LinkedIn Group

Related LinkedIn Event Page

Belgium Page on Eclipse

In March, we covered already the Eclipse RCP, OSGi and Modeling Trainings proposed in our realm by the Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with Eclipse Foundation member companies. There are multiple trainings in the Netherlands, but also one session in Brussels, planned for May 23-26, 2011.

The Eclipse guys informed us that there still are 1-2 seats open for the training in Brussels, which they would like to staff in order to get the perfect team size. For this reason, they offer a rock-bottom-discount providing a place for only 1250,- Euro.

Seeing that such trainings are rare in our country, this might be the perfect opportunity to poke your nose into Eclipse RCP development, of course sponsored by your boss ;-)

For more info, click here and follow the links.

The Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with Eclipse member companies, is offering a series of training classes. This is your opportunity to learn Eclipse techniques, tips and tricks from experts.

The instructor-led training courses will be held from April 25 to May 27, 2011 and feature classes on Eclipse Developing with RCP, Eclipse Advanced RCP, Eclipse Equinox & OSGi and Eclipse Modeling.

Industrial TSI will host the following courses in The Netherlands and Belgium:

• Developing OSGi April 27-28, 2011 Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (Special promotion price 999,= an extra 10% will be given if you register 2 weeks in advantage)
• Eclipse EMF Modeling May 9 -10, 2011 Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (Special promotion price 999,= an extra 10% will be given if you register 2 weeks in advantage)
• Eclipse GEF/GMF Modeling May 11-13, 2011 Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (Special promotion price 1350,= an extra 10% will be given if you register 2 weeks in advantage)
• Eclipse RCP Advanced May 16-18, 2011 Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (Special promotion price 1350,= an extra 10% will be given if you register 2 weeks in advantage)
• Developing Eclipse RCP May 23-26, 2011 Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (Special promotion price 1700,= an extra 10% will be given if you register 2 weeks in advantage)
• Developing Eclipse RCP May 23-26, 2011 Brussels, Belgium (Special promotion price 1700,= an extra 10% will be given if you register 2 weeks in advantage)

For course outlines and other information, like prerequisites, please see the Training Agenda.

Courses:

Eclipse RCP
The Developing with RCP course will help you understand how to implement your own application based on Eclipse RCP.

Advanced Eclipse RCP
If you are familiar with the nuts and bolts of developing Eclipse RCP applications and now face a major project requiring specific RCP knowledge, this intensive three-day class covers advanced RCP development concepts that have proven relevant in challenging large-scale projects.

OSGi
This intensive course covers fundamentals of OSGi as well as intermediate topics and specific features of Eclipse Equinox. You will apply the theoretical knowledge in several labs which will give you the practical experience necessary for your projects.

Eclipse Modeling
Our Eclipse Modeling (EMF, GEF, GMF) Training puts you in the position of being able to assess and apply the use of EMF, GEF and GMF for your needs.

Advantage for Brussels JUG members:

Members of the BruJUG will receive an extra discount of 15% (your discount can raise up to 25% when registering as early bird) by specifying a promo code that you can obtain by simple email to the Brussels JUG team (see contact page).

Register:
In order to register for one of these courses, please dial +31 (30) 6005010 or send an e-mail to: training [ÄDD] industrial-tsi.com.

What is an Eclipse DemoCamp?

From November 1-30, the Eclipse Foundation is inviting individuals to organize and attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world. The Eclipse DemoCamps are an opportunity to showcase all of the cool technology being built by the Eclipse community. They are also an opportunity for you to meet Eclipse enthusiasts in your city.

A DemoCamp is an informal event for a group of Eclipse enthusiasts to meet up and demo what they are doing with Eclipse. The demos can be of research projects, Eclipse open source projects, applications based on Eclipse, commercial products using Eclipse or whatever you think might be of interest to the attendees. The only stipulation is that it must be Eclipse related.

Belgium – Eclipse DemoCamp, November 30th 2010 in Antwerp

The Belgian camp is going to be a special one. The Dutch Eclipse User Group and the Belgian Eclipse User Group, in cooperation with TSI, SmartApps and the Brussels JUG, are organizing a DemoCamp full of surprises at the Cronos premises in Antwerp.

More information, Program and Speakers

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2010/Antwerp

Where and When?

Cronos, Business Park King Square, Veldkant 35 D, 2550 Kontich (Antwerp), Belgium

Tuesday, November 30, Starts at 18:00 hrs, End at 22:00 hrs

Registration required (via link above)