The Eclipse Community Awards are to recognize and thank the individuals and technologies that make Eclipse such a vibrant robust community. This page is for voting on the Individual Awards.

First, The Voting Is Over

Thanks to everyone who voted and thanks to all the nominees, the finalists, and the winners. The finalists are marked below with a and the winners with a

Second, How Voting Worked

You were entitled to vote in one of two different elections: either as a Committer or as a Community member. Obviously you needed to be an Eclipse Committer to vote as a Committer. We asked for your name and other identifying information in order to validate your membership in either group. (You were allowed to vote as many times as you wanted, but only the last vote counted.)

Third, Top Ambassador

The Top Ambassador award recognizes an individual (committer or non-committer) who best promotes cross project interactions and building a collaborative Eclipse developer community. This award recognizes an individual who works between projects or between ecosystem companies; the other two awards (Top Contributor and Top Committer) are about flow into and flow out of - this award is about flow between/across. Across projects, across user groups, across plug-in developers, etc.

The nominees are: (many of these people have kind words written about them in the nominations)

Alex Blewitt	John Arthorne
Arthur Ryman	Konstantin Scheglov
Bob Foster	Pat McCarthy
Chris Aniszczyk	Philippe Ombredanne
Chris Laffra	R.J. Lorimer
David Orme	Tim Wagner
Ed Burnette	Todd Williams
Eric Clayberg	Tyler Thessin
Erich Gamma	Urbaan
Fred Grott	Venkataramana M
Gunnar Wagenknecht	Xavier Méhaut
Jim des Rivieres

Fourth, Top Contributor

The Top Contributor award recognizes an individual (non-committer) who has made substantial contribution to the Eclipse community. This award recognizes an individual whose contributions flow into Eclipse projects. (This award can also apply to a part-time committer who has made substantial contributions in a non-committer role, i.e., a part-time committer on Project A who has contributed heavily outside of Project A.)

The nominees are: (many of these people have kind words written about them in the nominations)

Andrei Loskutov	Lars Gersmann
Benjamin Pasero	Linda Watson
Bruno Leroux	Mik Kersten
Gunnar Wagenknecht	Scott Lewis
Jesper Kamstrup Linnet	Vladimir Grishchenko
Konstantin Scheglov

Fifth, Top Committer

The Top Committer award recognizes an Eclipse committer who best exemplifies supporting the community through newsgroups, bugzilla, white papers, conference presentations, blogs, etc. This award recognizes an individual who contributions flow out of an Eclipse project into the larger Eclipse community.

The nominees are: (many of these people have kind words written about them in the nominations)

Alain Magloire	Grant Gayed
Andre Weinand	Jason Weathersby
Billy Biggs	Jeff McAffer
Bruno Leroux	John Arthorne
Christophe Cornu	Nick Edgar
Daniel Megert	Paul Slauenwhite
Darin Swanson	Randy Hudson
Darin Wright	Silenio Quarti
David Williams	Steve Northover
Ed Merks	Tim Deboer
Eugene Chan	Veronika Irvine