Eric works on the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) team at Google and he was formerly with Instantiations, a company known for its focus on Eclipse Java developer tools, that was acquired by Google in 2010. Eric is also a Project Lead for the new open source WindowBuilder project at Eclipse.org. “I have been involved with Eclipse since 1999 and have always been a strong supporter of Eclipse community interests. I look forward to bringing Google scale thinking and inventiveness to my new role as board member.”
Google has been a longtime supporter of the the Eclipse Community. In addition to open sourcing Eclipse tools, Eclipse Labs is powered by Google Project Hosting and we have hosted Eclipse Days at the Googleplex in 2010, 2009, and 2008. Several Googlers will speak at EclipseCon sessions this year, including:
- WindowBuilder 101 and GWT App start to finish – Eric Clayberg
- GWT App start to finish and Building the Google Plugin for Eclipse: What We Learned – Rajeev Dayal, software engineer on the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) team.
- Android Development with Eclipse – Xavier Ducrohet, Tech lead for the Android SDK and developer tools, and Tor Norbye, software developer on the Android team
- Effective Git – Sean Pearce, lead on JGit project
- GWT App start to finish and Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) 101 – Dan Rubel, software engineer on the GWT team and formerly co-founder of Instantiations and Jaime Wren, Software Engineer on the GWT team
Bruce Johnson and Chris Ramsdale, Google Developer Tools Team
