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E4/Evangelism
e4 is generating a lot of interest in the Eclipse community. A lot of people are already helping to promote and evangelize the e4 platform. The intent of this page is to help e4 evangelists collaborate on their promotion of the e4 technology.
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e4 Themes and Messages
Lots of people have heard about e4 but not a lot of people can explain what it is and who it is for. Therefore, we should attempt to develop a common set of messages and short description. The following is a proposal and open for comment.
Main Theme: e4 is the next generation platform for building Eclipse-based applications (RCP 2.0)
Supporting Message: Easier to Develop
- Simplify APIs for accessing application services
- Support declarative and visual definition of user interfaces
- Support for web UI components in the Eclipse platform
Supporting Message: Easier to Assemble
- Model-based workbench
- Tools for application assembly
- Skinnable UI
- Eclipse as an OpenSocial Gadget container
- Service-oriented programming model
Key Questions that need to be answered
- How do people migrate to e4?
- What is in e4 for a Java EE and Web developer that might not be building Eclipse-based applications?
e4 User Portal
We need to create a web page that targets new users to e4. The goal would be to make it easy for them to find information and resource to get started on e4. On this use page we could include things like:
- Getting Started Tutorials
- Examples and Demos
- Migration Documents
- Blog feed of e4 related posts
- Download links
- Support Forum links
The Eclipse Foundation will help build the web page but it will rely upon the Evangelists to help supply content.
Content
This section will 1) act as a catalog of content that has been created, 2) allow individuals to indicate their interest in developing new content and 3) allow people to connect and collaborate on the creation of new content.
Tutorials
Developing for e4 Tutorials
Eclipse e4 Tutorial by Lars Vogel
Assembly
- Please add a link to existing content or content that you plan on creating.
Migration
- Please add a link to existing content or content that you plan on creating.
Examples and Demos
Developing for e4 Tutorials
- Please add a link to existing content or content that you plan on creating.
Assembly
- Kai Toedter's Blogs e4: Animated Splash Screen Experiment, e4 CSS Styling: More Fun with radial Gradients
- "On the Road to Eclipse 4.0": Interview with Mike Wilson about e4 for German Eclipse Magazine and JAXenter: On the Road to Eclipse 4.0 (English), On the Road to Eclipse 4.0 (German)
- Please add a link to existing content or content that you plan on creating.
Events and Speaking
Presentation Material
- Please add any e4 presentation material you would like to share.
- I have presented e4 a number of times with these slides. /Tonny Madsen
Events
- OOP conference, January 2010: Kai Toedter on "e4-Preview: CSS-Styling and Workbench Modeling"
- EclipseCon conference, March 2010: Kai Toedter on "What's new in e4 CSS Styling?", Tom Schindl & Kai Toedter on "e4 - Anatomy of an e4-Application"
- JAX conference, May 2010: Boris Bokowski on "adopting e4" and "OpenSocial Gadgets", Kai Toedter on "e4-Preview: CSS-Styling and Workbench Modeling" http://it-republik.de/konferenzen/jax2010/speaker/
- JUG San Francisco, 14 April, 2010, Learn about Eclipse e4 : Lars Vogel will be presenting Eclipse e4 to the JUGSF
- Please add where you are speaking about e4 and the regions you are available to speak
Other Stuff
- What else could/should the evangelist try to work on together?
Coordination Meeting
We will plan to have monthly evangelist meetings to encourage communication, collaboration and all that good stuff meeting are suppose to do. :-)
Second meeting will be Thursday, February 11 at 11amPT/2pmET/20:00CET. Call-in numbers are:
U.S. 1-866-394-4146
Participant Passcode: 874 515 514#
The following countries have also been approved for toll-free calls, if required:
Germany: 0800-111-1193
Germany Caller paid 49-6958-999-0561
UK: 0800-358-3473
UK Caller Paid: 44-207-154-0023
France: 0800-94-0253
France Caller Paid: 33-1-70-99-3261
Sweden: 0200-125-713
Sweden Caller Paid: 46-850-520-161
Finland: 0800-114-845
Finland Caller Paid: 358-969-379-456
Open discussion Topics for the Call
- Who would be willing to give interviews about Eclipse e4 with OpenSource Podcasts. I can try to setup something but I believe a e4 leader should be conducting the interview (from Lars Vogel 06. February 2010 )
- Which topics should I also cover in my tutorial http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseE4/article.html. (from Lars Vogel 06. February 2010) I can think of
- Extension of UI model via additional plugins
- Improved service example
- Using different renderers
- Where can I find information about using different Renderers (from Lars Vogel 06. February 2010)
- Some article ideas (from James Sugrue 08. February 2010)
- Why Move From Eclipse 3.x to e4?
- Getting a basic application together.
- Using XWT
- e4 Migration Guide
- e4 programming contest at EclipseCon
- need volunteers to help support the contest at the conference