Eclipse Community Awards 2012

Most Open Project Awards Information and Guidelines

Eclipse Communication Framework

http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/

Founded in late 2004, the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) has been a continuous and active Eclipse community member for years. ECF involves the community in many ways and regularly takes on new sub-projects. For example, the recently launched ECF documentation project aims to close documentation gaps with help from the community. ECF is also known as a particularly student friendly project. Thanks to its committers and docs, it provides a low barrier to entry and flat learning curves. ECF's support for new contributers is exceptional. In fact, almost all ECF committers joined ECF as their first Eclipse project - and many among them also joined other Eclipse projects, contributing even more to the Eclipse community.

C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT)

http://www.eclipse.org/cdt

The CDT has always been a very open project. And for many reasons it has to be given the dynamics of the contributors. There are many companies and individual contributors who participate in the CDT and they are spread around the world. Our only real avenue for communication is the cdt-dev mailing list. Hallway conversations happen but almost all work is done with contributors from other companies. CDT has monthly conference calls and semi-regular yearly summits to which all are invited. Bugzilla is often lively with discussion on bugs and enhancement requests.

GMF Tooling

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/gmp/

2011 was a difficult but exciting year for GMF Tooling. GMF Tooling was close to disappear from the Eclipse world after all its initial committers brutally left the project, but it could become in a few month a first-class Eclipse project thanks to the effort that were put in making it more open and transparent.

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