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Eclipse Community Awards

The Eclipse Community Awards were created to recognize and thank the individuals and technologies that make Eclipse a vibrant community. There are two categories of awards: 1) awards for individuals, and 2) awards for technologies and products. The awards will be presented on March 17, 2008 at EclipseCon 2008.

Individual Awards

Top Ambassador - Recognizes an individual (committer or non-committer) who best promotes and supports the Eclipse community. Everyone can vote on this award. Top Committer - Recognizes an Eclipse committer who best exemplifies support for the community through newsgroups, Bugzilla, white papers, conference presentations, blogs and other forums. Everyone can vote for this award. Top Contributor - Recognizes an Eclipse contributor who best exemplifies support for the community through submission of patches & comments on bugs, posts to newsgroups, creation of white papers, presentations at conferences, blogs, IRC and other forums. Top contributors 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. Everyone can vote on this award. Most Prolific Newcomer Evangelist - This individual best exemplifies the welcoming of new people into the Eclipse community. This award will be presented to the individual that has answered the most questions raised on the eclipse.newcomer newsgroup.

Technology Awards

Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Developer Tool - Recognizes a commercial product that provides an innovative, high quality product for software developers. Best Open Source Eclipse-Based Developer Tool - Recognizes an open source project (not hosted at Eclipse) that provides an innovative, high quality product for software developers. Best Commercial Equinox Application - Recognizes a commercial product that illustrates the most innovative use of Eclipse Equinox. Best Open Source Equinox Application - Recognizes an open source project (not hosted at Eclipse) that illustrates the most innovative use of Eclipse Equinox. Best Commercial RCP Application - Recognizes a commercial product that illustrates the most innovative use of Eclipse RCP for end user applications. Best Open Source RCP Application - Recognizes an open source project (not hosted at Eclipse) that illustrates the most innovative use of Eclipse RCP for end user applications.

Important Dates

Nominations open - December 14, 2007 Nominations close - January 25, 2008 Voting begins for Individual Awards - January 30, 2008 Voting ends for Individual Awards - February 21, 2008 at 5:00 pm EST Awards Announced - March 17, 2008