Apologies for the late appearance of this and the next post, but the expansion of my mind during the conference caused it to short circuit. In addition I’ve been wondering how I could possibly describe the key note by Dr. Jeff Norris from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and provide a glimpse of just how awe inspiring it was. Short of having recorded it, I don’t think any description could do it justice. The EclipseCon keynote presentation that seamlessly integrates Greek philosophy, Eclipse, Open Source and robots is described by Chris Aniszczyk’s in his blog and the title of the article by Ian Skerrett from Eclipse just sums it up.
Another day packed full of tutorials and presentations included a joint presentation “DTP in the real world” by Brian Fitzpatrick from RedHat a member of the Data Tools Platform (DTP) Project Management Committee (PMC) and Ruth Soliani from the Eldorado Research Institute. MOTODEV studio demonstrates how utilizing DTP enabled the rapid development the application which connects to Android emulators or devices to interact with application databases. If you are interested the Ingres Database Workbench (IDW) is submitted as source to the Eclipse DTP enablement code repository and whilst not included in the release stream is available for download and used either as an example of a DTP application or as the basis for extension. The presentation included special thanks to Jo Peel and Enrico Schenk for their contribution to this submission.
One of the last sessions of the day was the Panel: Future of Open Source. Whilst there was discussion of “community vs. venture backed dual licensing”, “commoditized vs. innovation” and the “place of open source in cloud computing”. The opinion of the panel was that open source are masters of distribution; as demonstrated by Google data is all powerful and communities should aggregate the crowd telemetry and use it to derive revenue. Open data, on-line privacy and security were highlighted important in the future.