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Cédric Brun

Build open-source technologies to enable mission critical tools for complex domains.

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I don’t know about you, but at Obeo we’re preparing for EclipseCon North America. Eclipse Conferences are great; so many things are built on top of Eclipse or within the Eclipse projects. Tooling of course, but also rich applications, runtimes — you can get a clear vision of what’s going on in these areas in just a few days being there. You could think: “all right, but he is an Eclipse committer, of course Eclipse conferences are interesting to him”. Actually I’m also CTO at Obeo and when Obeo comes at EclipseCon it’s not a one man trip. Seven people from Obeo will go this year to Boston; it’s not unusual, and for a company like us it’s no small investment.

So, with my CTO hat (and not the Eclipse committer one) let me give you a hint: its worth it!

During a few days your team is getting to learn from the source! The community is so diverse — they will learn about developing mobile apps, web apps, rich applications, runtimes, but also about product management, tooling, business intelligence, quality, processes. They will learn tips and tricks on using technologies and in our world these tips are making the difference between a successful project and a complete failure. The knowledge you’ll get is high quality: you’ll learn either from people using the technology day to day or from people actually building the technology!

Looking back at the few years the company has been around, there is no doubt Eclipse conferences had the most profound impact on how we use technology and how we develop products.

I’ll take a few samples from what we are presenting there but make sure you have a look on the program yourself.

And thats a tiny extract of the conference which has 7 parallel tracks during 3 days + a full day of 3 hours tutorials.

And I am not even mentioning the discussions, the BOF sessions and the keynotes.

Well, of course you won’t be able to send all your developers there. Just make sure to send those who are good at sharing knowledge with the others and you’ll see it will impact both your software and your practices.

ps: better hurry to register